More charges have been lodged against accused drug dealer Nicholas Wilson-Jones, according to court records filed by the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit (NEU) at Judge Aaron Biichle’s office. Wilson-Jones, 40, has now been charged with an additional felony count of delivery of a controlled substance after authorities executed a search warrant at his home at 628 Court St. on Jan. 9 and seized nearly seven grams of cocaine, according to an affidavit. The search was conducted one day after he was arrested for allegedly selling cocaine to an informant on three occasions in the city between mid-October and early January. Initially jailed, he is now free on bail.

In another case, Joseph Tyler Pontius, 37, of 505 W. Southern Ave., South Williamsport, has been charged by state police with conspiracy to possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance for conspiring with Dillon Zinck in selling seven grams of bath salts to an informant on Route 44 near Lehman Drive in Nippenose Township back on Jan. 16 2023, according to court records. A second man accompanied the informant to the location of the alleged sale, and this upset Pontius, who also was there, according to an affidavit. “Get the (expletive) out of here. You were told to come alone,” Pontius told the informant, the affidavit stated. Following his arraignment last week before District Judge Kirsten Gardner, Pontius was released on $50,000 bail. Zinck, 30, of Antes Fort, was already arraigned on drug charges for his alleged involvement in the sale and is free on $15,000 bail.

In another case, Stephanie Nichole Huyck, 28, of 1315 Pennsylvania Ave., was charged by the NEU with possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia after she was seen obtaining a bag of cocaine from “a known drug house” near Seventh and Court streets in the city on Dec. 19, it was alleged in an affidavit. Investigators followed her to her Loyalsock Township home, where she was taken into custody and searched at police headquarters after authorities obtained a search warrant. A detective seized the bag from Huyck, police said. She was held for court last week and is free on $5,000 bail.

In another case, Monique Rittenhouse, a 28-year-old homeless woman, has been charged with possession of a controlled substance (marijuana) and criminal trespassing after she was found inside an apartment at 452 Market St. that she was not permitted to be in on Jan. 27, city police alleged. She has waived her preliminary hearing before Biichle and remains jailed in lieu of $10,000 bail.

In another case, James Vanderveer, 20, of 604 Market St., has been charged with possession of a controlled substance (marijuana) and criminal trespassing after he was caught trespassing at his parents’ home in the 1400 block of East Third Street in Loyalsock Township on Jan. 20, according to state police. He had told earlier he was prohibited from being at the house, police said. Vanderveer had a roach containing marijuana, police said. He is free on $5,000 bail on these charges. He was arrested just last week for stealing money from a tip jar at a Montoursville business, borough police alleged. He is free on $5,000 bail in this case as well.

In another case, Stephen Daniel Boone, 27, of Bloomsburg, waived his preliminary hearing on state police charges of possession of a controlled substance (marijuana) and possession of drug paraphernalia on Interstate 180 in Fairfield Township back on July 8, 2022. He is free on $5,000 bail.