HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Blair County District Attorney’s Office has until Nov. 5 to turn over evidence in the case against a Philadelphia man accused of drug trafficking.

During a trial list review hearing Tuesday morning, defense attorney John Siford told presiding Judge David B. Consiglio that he hadn’t received lab reports, photos, videos or intercepted prison phone calls from the District Attorney’s Office in regard to his client, George Hechavarria-Hernandez, 30.

Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Mays, who attended the hearing on behalf of District Attorney Pete Weeks, said Weeks informed him that the defense had received all evidence in the case and asked Hechavarria-Hernandez to be scheduled for jury selection.

Siford objected, saying they hadn’t received the evidence and would only agree with Hechavarria-Hernandez being scheduled for jury selection if his requests were met “within the next 20 minutes.”

Instead, Consiglio ordered the DA’s Office to provide Siford with the lab reports, photos, videos and intercepted prison phone calls by or before Nov. 5, about 20 days before Hechavarria-Hernandez’s next scheduled court appearance.

Hechavarria-Hernandez is facing single felony counts of possession with intent to deliver and criminal use of a communication facility, as well as single misdemeanor counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia in one case.

He has a separate but related case in front of Judge Jackie Atherton Bernard, in which he was charged with one felony count each of possession with intent to deliver and conspiracy to commit possession with intent to deliver, along with one misdemeanor count each of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Hechavarria-Hernandez is being held at the Blair County Prison in lieu of $100,000 and $200,000 bail, respectively.

Court documents state that officers initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle driven by Hechavarria-Hernandez’s co-defendant Taufeeq Ameer Dixon, 29, in the area of Fifth Avenue and 17th Street after they pulled out of a Sheetz parking lot without using their turn signal in late July.

Dixon, whose sole case in Blair County remains inactive, faces identical charges to Hechavarria-Hernandez, with the addition of a single misdemeanor count of fraud. He is being held at the Delaware County Prison on $200,000 bail.

Following the traffic stop that led to their arrest, Hechavarria-Hernandez was questioned by officers on scene as to the origin of his large amount of cash. According to the affidavit of probable cause, Hechavarria-Hernandez said he owned a trucking business and that he and Dixon were returning to Philadelphia from trying to land a job in West Virginia.

Officers then spoke to Dixon, who said Hechavarria-Hernandez owned a construction company. He told officers they were in West Virginia completing a job and were now traveling back to Philadelphia, the police report stated.

A search warrant executed on the vehicle yielded about 1.5 ounces of crack cocaine hidden behind the vehicle’s trunk lining, about $5,453 in cash, a large digital scale with residue, a small digital scale, a box of sandwich bags, a white tray with marijuana residue, two black bags containing zip-top bags with marijuana residue, rolling paper and two cellphones, the report stated.

Officers also reported finding that the vehicle’s inspection stickers had been forged.

Mirror Staff Writer Rachel Foor-Musselman is at 814-946-7458.