Man jailed for meth deliveries

NORRISTOWN » A Lansdale man is headed to jail for distributing methamphetamine from his borough apartment.

David Joseph Moyer, 40, of the first block of East Third Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 11½ to 23 months in the county jail after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine in connection with two incidents that occurred in March 2017. Judge Thomas C. Branca also ordered Moyer to complete three years’ probation following parole, meaning Moyer will be under court supervision for about five years.

The judge added Moyer must undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation and comply with all recommendations for treatment.

An investigation of Moyer began in March 2017 when the Lansdale Police Street Crimes Unit received information that Moyer was involved in the sales of methamphetamine in the borough. During the third week in March, borough detectives working with the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Drug Task Force obtained information that Moyer was “going to engage in a drug transaction” in the borough, according to a criminal complaint.

“Prior to this transaction, all routine measures were taken to ensure this transaction was controlled. During the course of the transaction, Lansdale Street Crimes detectives were in close proximity of the event,” detectives wrote in the arrest affidavit.

Detectives observed Moyer meet with an individual outside his Third Street residence “and witnessed a hand-tohand transaction,” according to the criminal complaint. Immediately following the transaction, detectives recovered the drugs, specifically 0.31 grams of methamphetamine, which Moyer delivered to the unidentified individual, according to court documents.

During the fourth week of March 2017, detectives learned that Moyer was going to engage in another drug transaction and authorities set up surveillance outside Moyer’s residence. Again, detectives witnessed Moyer meet with an individual and conduct another hand-to-hand drug transaction, according to the criminal complaint.

After each of the two transactions, Moyer immediately went back inside his residence, detectives said.

When detectives obtained a warrant to search Moyer’s residence on March 24, they seized a scale, pipes, syringes and other drug paraphernalia. Unused clear bags that were recovered matched the bags that contained the methamphetamine recovered by detectives during the controlled drug deliveries, court documents alleged.