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WILKES-BARRE — He can’t say he wasn’t warned.

At least, that’s what city police can say about a man they arrested on a warrant after suspecting he was selling drugs on a South Wilkes-Barre street corner.

While on patrol Monday afternoon, city police officer Chris Benson said he saw a man standing outside a pickup truck and talking to the driver at the intersection of New Elizabeth Street and Carey Avenue, which Benson described as a high-crime area known for narcotics sales.

Benson turned down Alexander Street and returned to the intersection to investigate. The pickup was gone, but the man who had been talking with the driver was standing on the corner, holding money in his left hand, Benson said in court papers.

Benson approached the man, whom he identified as Dexter Gallishaw, 46, of Hanover Township, ran a check on him through Luzerne County 911 and learned he was wanted by the county Sheriff’s Department.

Upon searching Gallishaw, Benson found “a large amount of money folded in separate stacks.” When asked if he had narcotics on him Gallishaw allegedly replied that he did not, according to court papers.

Benson said he explained to Gallishaw that he would be charged with a felony if he would be found in possession of narcotics when he arrived at the county correctional facility.

Gallishaw was transported to the prison and, when he was being searched, eight white packets labeled “Kafia” were found in an inside pocket of his jeans. The packets field tested positive for heroin, court papers said.

A felony contraband charge of entering a correctional facility with narcotics as well as a misdemeanor charge of possession of a controlled substance were filed with District Judge Joseph Carmody against Gallishaw.