A Carbon County man is in custody for selling drugs in the Jim Thorpe area.

According to a release sent by Detective Lee Marzen of the Jim Thorpe Police Department:

Jim Thorpe Police, along with the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and the Carbon County Drug Task Force, conducted a drug investigation which began in September.

Through the course of the investigation, a man identified as Jessie Lee James, 46, of Penn Forest Township, had made sales of cocaine to a confidential informant in September.

On Nov. 11, arrangements were made for the informant to buy Percocet tablets from James. Police took James into custody and charged him with two counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance; possession of a counterfeit controlled substance; possession of a controlled substance, and criminal use of a communication facility.

He was under the supervision by the Carbon County Probation Office, and arraigned at the office of District Judge Eric Schrantz of Jim Thorpe.

James is currently incarcerated in the Carbon County Correctional Facility in lieu of $50,000 straight bail.

He is scheduled to have a preliminary hearing at 3:15 p.m. Dec. 13 before Schrantz.