Pa. Police: Man Answers Door Holding Bags of Heroin when Officer Knocks

Police say a man admitted to having stamp bags filled with heroin in his hands when he answered a knock at the door from police at the Harmar motel where he was staying.

Two people wanted on arrest warrants face multiple felony charges after police got a tip they were staying in a room at the Days Inn on Landings Drive and found drugs in the room, according to a criminal complaint.

Jessica Lynn Oliver, 31, of the 1100 block of Stieren Avenue in Brackenridge and John Brockman Jr., 31, of Fenelton each face four counts of possession of drugs with the intent to deliver and conspiracy, which are felonies, along with five counts of drug possession and four counts of prohibited acts.

Oliver was released from custody on an unsecured bond, according to court records. She faces a preliminary hearing before District Judge David Sosovicka on Nov. 18.

Brockman is being detained in the Allegheny County Jail. A date for his hearing before Sosovicka on the charges has not yet been set, according to court records.

A Harmar police officer wrote in arrest papers that he was dispatched Sept. 18 to the Days Inn after police received a tip that Oliver and Brockman were in one of the rooms.

Police did not identify who provided the tip, but the caller knew that warrants had been issued for the pair's arrest, according to a criminal complaint.

Court records show Oliver and Brockman were both charged Sept. 1 with eight felony drug counts and 13 misdemeanor counts of prohibited acts by Tarentum police. Both face a preliminary hearing on those charges before District Judge Carolyn Bengel on Sept. 28.

Police said two motel employees confirmed the pair was in a room, the complaint said.

An officer who knocked on the door said the man and woman who answered identified themselves as Brockman and Oliver.

He wrote in their arrest papers that numerous hypodermic needles were visible on the floor along with stamp bags on a table. The small packets typically are used to package heroin or other powdered narcotics.

Police said Brockman admitted to having "a few bundles" of heroin in his hands when he answered the door.

An officer saw Brockman clutching the bags behind his back and then toss them when he realized police were at the door, the complaint said.

Police got a warrant to search the room, where they found four "bricks" of heroin marked "Exxon" and four bricks labeled "BP," the complaint said. A brick of heroin typically contains 50 packets.

Two baggies with a total of about 80 tablets of the prescription pain medication Gabapentin along with a baggie containing several rocks of crack cocaine also were confiscated, police said.

Investigators also seized a digital scale, several hundred small bags used to package drugs, crack pipes, six bags of unused needles and two "drug activity" books used to record sales, according to the complaint.

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