Cops: Monessen man tried to hide crack cocaine, M-80

By Paul Peirce
Trib Total Media News Wire Services
A Monessen man pulled over Tuesday near Smithton for equipment violations apparently tried to hide crack cocaine and a powerful firecracker from two state troopers approaching his car, according to court documents.
James Anthony Hayes’ plan didn’t work.
A small baggie with the suspected drugs and an M-80 were discovered “hidden in his buttocks” during a later search, Trooper Austin Weaver reported.
“Hayes admitted he concealed the M-80 in his buttocks, too, because he believed it to be illegal,” Weaver wrote in court documents filed before East Huntingdon District Judge Charles Moore.
Hayes, 28, was arraigned Wednesday before Moore on charges of illegal possession of crack cocaine, illegal possession of Suboxone, possession of a weapon of mass destruction, possession of a prohibited weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia and tampering with physical evidence after the 10:53 a.m. traffic stop on Dutch Hollow Road near the Route 981 intersection.

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