{"id":5493,"date":"2013-05-17T11:53:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2013-05-17T11:53:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T15:53:22","slug":"non-working-taillight-leads-to-drug-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=5493","title":{"rendered":"Non-working taillight leads to drug arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Police: Coatesville driver&#8217;s vehicle well-stocked for marijuana sales<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5494\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Image2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5494\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5494 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Ortiz faces multiple drug charges.\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Image2-300x289.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Image2-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Image2.jpg 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Luis Ortiz, 36, of Coatesville, faces multiple drug charges following a traffic stop in Westtown Township.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A non-operable taillight put police on the trail of a Coatesville driver, who ended up with multiple drug charges, according to the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police said an officer on patrol Thursday at 9:43 a.m. observed a 2000 Chevy Tahoe on West Chester Pike at North Chester Road in Westtown Township with one rear tail lamp out.\u00a0 The officer conducted a vehicle stop in the parking lot of Ss. Simon and Jude Church and detected an odor of marihuana coming from the vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, Jose Luis Ortiz, 36, admitted to having marijuana on his person, and he was placed under arrest and his vehicle secured, police said.\u00a0 During a search of the Chevy Tahoe, police seized approximately one pound of marihuana, packaging material, a digital scale, and records related to the trafficking of illegal controlled substance, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz faces charges that include possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia as well as a traffic violation, police said. He was arraigned before Magisterial District Judge William Kraut who set bail at $10,000 cash, which Ortiz was unable to post, police said.\u00a0 Ortiz was sent to Chester County Prison to await a preliminary hearing on May 28, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police: Coatesville driver&#8217;s vehicle well-stocked for marijuana sales A non-operable taillight put police on the trail of a Coatesville driver, who ended up with multiple drug charges, according to the Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department. Police said an officer on patrol Thursday at 9:43 a.m. observed a 2000 Chevy Tahoe on West Chester Pike at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,2154,1343],"class_list":["post-5493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-coatesville","tag-jose-luis-ortiz","tag-westtown-east-goshen-regional-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}