Dec 22, 2020

Man tells police he does not sell meth but gives it away for free



How long until we hear this as a defense in Humboldt cases? It can be the Michael Acosta/Sarah Carroll/Kevin Haberman defense.
Mark Hiles of Altoona, Pennsylvania, has been charged with felonies and misdemeanors after a drug bust.

Police officers said that Hiles told them he did not sell methamphetamine but gave it away for free to those who came to his storage unit and asked for the drug.

Hiles was arrested for allegedly selling drugs from a storage unit several blocks from his home. He is free on $50,000 bind, according to The Smoking Gun.

Hiles and Tyler Bartley were arrested after investigators found them inside Hiles’s storage unit, which "appeared to being used as a residence." 

The criminal complaints states that Bartley admitted that he worked as a middle man setting up drug transactions between Hiles and street buyers.

Besides meth, police found bath salts, weed and drug paraphernalia. Hiles told police officers that he is currently unemployed and on disability with a monthly income of around $1300.

According to The Smoking Gun states investigators were familiar with Hiles’s storage unit since they had responded there last month following a “suspected overdose death.” 

A “large quantity of suspected heroin had been seized,” last month but Hiles was not charged..

Hiles’s rap sheet includes multiple drug convictions, for which he has served several years in state prison. 



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