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  • Altoona Man Arrested for Selling Drugs 
    Reported by: Tessa Mentus

    Friday, Aug 22, 2008 @06:38pm EDT

    ALTOONA, BLAIR COUNTY --- Police have arrested an Altoona man for selling crack cocaine.

     

    George Lamorte, Jr., 46, was charged with selling $100 worth of crack cocaine to a police informant.


    Lamorte is also accused of working with another drug dealer on a sale earlier this month.  That man is Ivan Crockett.


    Police said Lamorte and Crockett, who's already in jail on drug charges, worked together on a drug deal on August 5, 2008. 


    Three days after that deal police searched Crockett’s Altoona home.  They found cocaine and three loaded guns.  He was arrested outside of his house.

     

    Both men will have preliminary hearings next week.

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