Alleged fentanyl dealer busted in Folcroft

Sold bogus Percocet containing powerful opioid, police said

FOLCROFT » A Philadelphia man allegedly selling fake Percocet pills containing the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl has been arrested on distribution and related offenses.

Police removed approximately 300 pills from a home on the 1100 block of Taylor Drive Thursday and arrested Yusef Raheem Robinson, 23, of the 1800 block of W. Diamond

St., according to an affidavit of probable cause written by Folcroft Police Officer Thomas P. Kesser.

An undercover detective with the Delaware County Drug Task Force met with Kesser and arranged to make two buys of six total Percocet pills from Robinson on June 13 and 14, according to the affidavit. Pills from each buy tested positive for the presence of Fentanyl, the affidavit says.

Both buys took place at a 7-11 on the 2000 block of

Delmar Drive, according to the affidavit. Robinson allegedly arrived both times to deliver the pills driving a black Chrysler 300. The undercover detective paid $120 for three pills at each meeting, the affidavit says.

Kesser and other Folcroft officers executed a search warrant at the Taylor Drive residence Thursday and took Robinson into custody in a front master bedroom, according to the affidavit. A woman was also present and detained, but not charged.

Robinson directed officers to a closet, where they found a Ziploc bag containing 225 pills and another knotted sandwich bag containing 68 pills of a different type, according to the affidavit. One of the 225 pills tested positive for fentanyl and one of the pills in the sandwich bag tested positive for Oxycodone, the affidavit says.

Robinson also allegedly told officers that he had cash and packaging materials in the Chrysler. He said he owns the vehicle but it is registered to a friend because he does not have a license, according to the affidavit.

A search of the vehicle turned up a wallet containing more than $1,000 in cash as well as a large amount of new and used foil packaging material identical to that used in the undercover buys, according to the affidavit.

Police also recovered a cell phone that rang when it was called using the same number the undercover detective had called to initiate the buys, the affidavit says.

Robinson was preliminarily arraigned before Magisterial District Judge Walter A. Strohl on four counts each of possession and delivery of a controlled substance, five counts of possessing drug paraphernalia and two counts of criminal use of a communication facility.

He was remanded to the county jail in Concord after failing to post 10% of $400,000 and is awaiting a preliminary hearing date of July 6, according to online court records. No defense attorney was listed.