Published February 13. 2017 02:45PM
A Montgomery County man was convicted of seven drug charges this week by a county jury following a one-day trial.
The panel found Christian Edward Geyer, 32, of Perkiomenville, guilty of three counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count each of criminal conspiracy-possession with intent to delivery and possession of drug paraphernalia.Geyer never testified at the trial and his co-defendant invoked her Fifth Amendment rights when called and declined to testify.Geyer was charged by Franklin Township police for his part in the sale of crystal methamphetamine to a confidential informant. Agents of the state Attorney General's office, along with the county drug task force, set up a sale on July 7, 2016, along Long Run Road in Franklin Township.The co-defendant in the case, Mary E. Troxell, 25, who listed addresses in Lansford and Tamaqua, pleaded guilty to her part on Oct. 24, 2016. She was sentenced on Dec. 13, 2016, to serve three to a day less 24 months in the county prison. Troxell was the driver of a van and Geyer the passenger when the transaction was made. Police stopped the vehicle a short time after the sale was completed.At the time the commonwealth, represented by Assistant District Attorney Brian Gazo, produced evidence that when arrested, Geyer had the $50 in marked bills used by the CI to make the purchase in his back pocket. Other drug paraphernalia was found in a backpack in the vehicle, which police said belonged to Geyer.Geyer, who was represented by court-appointed attorney Adam Weaver, has been an inmate in the county prison since his arrest.President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II deferred sentencing and ordered the adult probation office to prepare a presentence investigation report.