Altoona police, along with officers and agents of the Blair County Drug Task Force, state police and the state Office of Attorney General conducted a drug interdiction stop on a suspicious vehicle on the 2200 block of Broad Avenue in downtown Altoona on Wednesday, according to an Altoona police report.

During the stop, K-9 Blue conducted an open-air sniff of the vehicle and alerted to the odor of controlled substances.

The driver, Ghage Morgan, 20, of Martinsburg, and front-seat passenger Charles Walter Dudley, 46, of Middletown, Delaware, were taken into custody while police applied for and received a search warrant for the vehicle.

During the search, police found on Dudley’s person 126 grams of suspected cocaine, with a street value of $12,600; 147 yellow and green pressed methamphetamine pills with a street value of $3,000; and $313 in cash.

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Dudley and Morgan were arrested and criminal complaints were compiled, the report states.

The two were arraigned Wednesday night by Magisterial District Judge Kevin Stolez on four felony counts each of conspiracy – possession with intent to deliver and possession with intent to delivery, and misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Morgan also faces summary traffic violations.

They were remanded to the Blair County Prison after being unable to post $100,000 bail each.

Their preliminary hearings are set for March 4 before Magisterial District Judge Benjamin F. Jones.