A Monroeville couple are charged after police say they sold heroin and fentanyl to undercover drug task force members on multiple occasions.
Joshua L. Waters, 30, and Jabria L. Caldwell, 27, both of Monroeville, are charged with felony counts of drug delivery and drug possession following an investigation that involved both Monroeville and Murrysville police, according to Westmoreland County District Attorney Nicole Ziccarelli.
Murrysville police conducted surveillance and developed sources identifying Waters making hand-to-hand drug transactions inside vehicles over a period of several weeks, according to the district attorney’s office. In August, the Westmoreland County Drug Task Force worked undercover to make three drug buys from Waters.
On Sept. 13, police say Waters met undercover officers for a drug buy in Westmoreland County, where he was taken into custody. A search warrant for his apartment turned up nearly a third of a pound of suspected fentanyl/heroin along with thousands of unused stamp bags, a processing and packaging area, sifters and cutting agents.
He is charged with seven felony counts of drug delivery, four counts of drug possession, marijuana possession and drug paraphernalia. His was denied bail and was taken to the Westmoreland County Prison.
Waters already is facing a November nonjury trial on 2023 drug charges out of Monroeville, according to court records.
Police said Caldwell, Waters’ girlfriend, was with him on at least one occasion during drug deliveries. She is charged with five felony counts of conspiracy to deliver drugs, three counts of conspiracy to possess drugs, marijuana possession and drug paraphernalia.
She was charged separately with resisting arrest and two felony counts of aggravated assault.
Both face Sept. 24 preliminary hearings in Judge Judi Petrush’s Export court.
Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.