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Thursday, February 04, 1993 Page: 2A QUICK WORDS: BLOTTER ITEM
PLAINS TWP. — Police arrested a 59-year-old man at the Department of
Veterans Affairs Medical Center on Wednesday night and charged him with
attempting to deliver drugs to a patient there.
Forest Sorber, who told police he lived out of his truck, was jailed in the
Luzerne County Correctional Facility for lack of $10,000 bail.
Police Chief John Timko said Sorber was taken into custody in the parking
lot of the hospital after federal agents learned he was delivering suspected
marijuana to a patient.
Timko said the federal agents turned Sorber over to agents of the Upper
Luzerne-Lower Lackawanna counties Drug Task Force. After he was taken into
custody, Sober consented to a search.
Federal police found a small bag of a substance suspected to be marijuana,
worth about $70, Timko said.