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By DAVID WEISS dweiss@leader.net
Saturday, January 29, 2000 Page: 2A
WILKES-BARRE – A city man and woman were arrested Thursday evening on
charges of selling $1,000 worth of cocaine to state police, according to
arrest papers.
Joelle Andrejewski, 19, and Kelvin Edwards, 20, both of the second floor
of 113 S. Hancock St., Wilkes-Barre, are charged in connection with the
alleged sales, which police said occurred during December and January.
According to arrest affidavits:
Police met the two through a confidential informant. On Dec. 22, a trooper
met with the informant, who told police Andrejewski said the informant could
go to the Hancock Street apartment anytime for cocaine.
The informant and a trooper went to the apartment, where the trooper
witnessed Andrejewski take two bags of cocaine from a kitchen cabinet and give
it to the informant.
Andrejewski then went into the bedroom and returned with two tinfoil wraps
of cocaine.
She gave the trooper her pager number and told the trooper to page her
anytime she needed anything.
On another occasion, the trooper contacted Andrejewski using the pager
number and told Andrejewski that she wanted $500 of cocaine. The trooper went
to the apartment and met Edwards, who gave the trooper two bags of cocaine.
The trooper told Edwards that the bags felt a “little light.”
Edwards told the trooper that he would give her a little more since
“you’ve been doing a lot of business.”
Police charged the two with four separate drug buys.
Call Weiss at 829-7242.