DUBOIS – Two DuBois residents will stand trial for allegedly possessing multiple drugs.
Christopher Coakley and Elizabeth Digilarmo, were both charged with felony manufacture/delivery/possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, nine misdemeanor counts of intentional possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia in connection to a traffic stop on Aug. 30, in DuBois.
After a preliminary hearing Friday during centralized court, District Judge David Meholick ruled these charges be sent on to the court of common pleas for further disposition.
According to the affidavit of probable cause, an officer spotted a car with windows tinted too darkly that was known to be driven by Coakley, who had an active warrant from the county sheriff’s department.
After activating his lights and siren, the officer followed the car which appeared to be trying to evade him before the vehicle was stopped by oncoming traffic.
Coakley was asked to get out of the vehicle and taken into custody. He was searched and a smoking device was found.
The officer had information that Coakley had been selling methamphetamine and asked for consent to search the vehicle. Coakley agreed.
A passenger in the front seat, Digilarmo, got out of the car. When she asked if she could take her bag, she was told no because the officer believed it may contain drugs due to Coakley “reaching and looking in her direction as I assisted him out of the vehicle,” the officer wrote in the criminal complaint. After some thought, she agreed to a search of her purse.
Inside it, police reportedly found two baggies containing methamphetamine, marijuana, a THC gummy, 12 THC tablets, a few additional tablets including 32.5 alprazolam, diazepam, Clonazepam, lorazepam, Xanax, buprenorphine/naloxone and vape pens with cartridges.
She said the only items belonging to her were the marijuana and THC items. She refused a request to search her phone for possible drug activity.
When an officer asked Coakley about the drugs, he claimed they belonged to her and she was the one selling drugs.
Coakley is free on $100,000 bail and Digilarmo on $50,000 bail.