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SCRANTON — A federal grand jury has indicted a Wilkes-Barre man on drug trafficking and firearm offenses, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.

Thomas Abreu Jr., 34, last known address as Scott Street, was charged with possessing with intent to distribute heroin after getting caught with drugs and firearms inside a Wilkes-Barre Township motel last year.

Abreu was arrested on July 26 after Wilkes-Barre Township police allegedly found a large amount of unpackaged heroin, packaging materials, guns and cash inside two rooms of a motel on Schecter Drive, according to a criminal complaint.

Police had investigated reports that Abreu had allegedly threatened an ex-girlfriend with a handgun in the area of Mundy and Kidder streets just before 3 p.m. Abreu was later spotted by police outside Motel 6 about 40 minutes later. Abreu ran into the motel when he saw a police cruiser.

Police said Abreu entered an adjacent room occupied by two people with a backpack. The occupants told police Abreu stashed sandwich bags full of suspected heroin under a mattress, about $1,000 in a dresser drawer and hid a red bag filled with unpackaged heroin in a trash can in the bathroom.

Three handguns were allegedly found in the backpack, police said.

Abreu was later charged with intimidating a witness at his preliminary hearing.

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By Joe Dolinsky

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