SHAMOKIN - Separate drug cases against a pair of defendants were sent to Northumberland County Court on Tuesday.
Ryan Varano, 28, of 114 S. Fifth St., Shamokin, waived his preliminary hearing. He was arrested after a friend overdosed on heroin inside his mother's day care center.
Varano is charged by Cpl. Bryan Primerano with felony counts of manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, criminal conspiracy and criminal use of a communication facility and misdemeanor charges of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance and recklessly endangering another person. He also faces counts of criminal trespass, a felony, and a misdemeanor charge of defiant trespass. He remains in Snyder County Prison on $25,000 cash bail.
Ocufi Lawrence, 36, of 204 S. Pearl St., Shamokin, saw his case bound to court by Magisterial District Judge John Gembic III, who refused to reduce the $20,000 cash bail set after his arrest April 30.
Lawrence is charged by Primerano with a felony of possessing with intent to deliver 14 grams of cocaine and misdemeanors of possessing cocaine, false identification to law enforcement authorities and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police say he moved to Shamokin from New York City to sell heroin and crack cocaine. He was taken into custody after stepping off a bus at Independence and Ninth streets.