A Hastings, Pa. man and a Cherry Tree, Pa. woman are in the Warren County Jail following a traffic stop on Friday, July 28.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, Shane Adam McAnulty, 32, of Hastings, and Kimberly Ann Buck, 30, of Cherry Tree, were stopped on Beach Road in Tionesta, Forest County. Officers told detectives that the driver, McAnulty, appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance, and that there was a “smoking device with tubing” in plain view in the back of the vehicle. After failing a standard field sobriety test, the affidavit states, McAnulty was taken into custody, at which point two more glass pipes were found on him.

Buck, the vehicle’s passenger, also appeared to be impaired and drug paraphernalia was located in plain view in her area of the car as well, according to the affidavit. A Pennsylvania State Police Drug Recognition Expert was consulted and “issued an opinion that McAnulty was under the influence…to a degree that he cannot safely drive a motor vehicle,” the affidavit states.

Officers searched the vehicle and recovered more drug paraphernalia, and what appeared to be a large amount of Bath Salts, according to the affidavit. A field test of the recovered substance was positive for A-PVP, the synthetic stimulant that is the main ingredient of bath salts. Officers also recovered money, owe sheets (records of drug sales), records of money orders, order tracking numbers, and digital scales.

Over five ounces of bath salts was recovered during the search. The affidavit states that bath salts are sold online from China for approximately $5 and then resold on the streets for approximately $200 a gram, meaning that the recovered bath salts would have had a street value of over $28,400 according to the affidavit.

In addition to bath salts, officers also recovered white pills marked U-47700, also known as “pink,” “pinky,” and “U4.” The drug is a synthetic opioid developed as a designer drug, according to the affidavit. “Importation into the U.S. is primarily from clandestine chemical labs in China,” the affidavit states, and the drug “has also been identified and sold on the internet misleadingly as a ‘research chemical’ at roughly $30 per gram.” Even small doses, according to the affidavit, have the potential to be toxic or even deadly.

Buck admitted during a subsequent interview that the seized substances were bath salts and that she and/or McAnulty were ordering bath salts approximately every three days from China. Buck told officers that she had a “green dot card” in her name with which to order the drugs. Packaging items corroborating that information were recovered from the car, according to the affidavit. McAnulty told officers that they were using their cell phones and the internet to order the bath salts, which were then shipped via the US Mail to a post office box.

McAnulty was later transported for chemical testing, which he refused, the affidavit states.

McAnulty has been charged with two felony counts of manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, and two felony counts of dealing in proceeds of unlawful activities/intent to promote, as well as numerous misdemeanor and summary offenses including exceeding the 25 mile per hour speed limit in a residential district.

Buck is charged with two counts of manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver and two counts of dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity/intent to promote, all felonies.

Online court records indicate that both are being held in the Warren County Jail. Buck’s bail was set at $80,000 and McAnulty’s was set at $90,000. Both preliminary hearings on Monday, August 1 were continued, with another preliminary hearing scheduled for Tuesday, August 15 before District Justice Daniel Miller of Forest County.