The Lycoming County Prison. SUN-GAZETTE PHOTO

Already arrested earlier this year on drug offenses, Joshua David Vroman is back behind bars on a set of felony charges stemming from a vehicle stop state police made in the 900 block of Beaver Lake Road in Penn Township about 2 a.m. on Aug. 19, according to court records. Driving a 2007 Toyota Camry, Vroman and his passenger, Tiffany Joann Cressley, the actual owner of the car, were stopped because the rear registration light “was not in operating condition” and Vroman, 32, was “traveling at a high rate of speed,” police said.

Upon being stopped, Vroman, formerly of 1600 block of Taylor Place, immediately got out of the car and was asked to provide his driver’s license and the car’s registration. “He became irate and stated that he was being harassed,” and claimed at first that the registration light was working, but he soon admitted that it was not, it was stated in an affidavit. It turned out there was a warrant for Vroman on another unspecified criminal matter, police said.

After seeing in plain view two marijuana roaches as well as a container of suspected marijuana and drug paraphernalia, the troopers asked if the car could be searched, but both Vroman and Cressley said no, according to the court document.

Vroman was taken into custody on the criminal warrant, and a search warrant was quickly obtained and executed, allowing troopers to search the car, which was impounded. Police seized an estimated 14 grams of suspected methamphetamine, 26 yellow unidentified pills, an undetermined amount of marijuana and assorted paraphernalia from the car. Both Vroman, now living at 7948 Route 14, Trout Run, and Cressley, 40, of 158 S. Fourth St., Hughesville, have been charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

While Cressley was released on $35,000 bail, Vroman was jailed in the Lycoming County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail following their recent separate arraignments before District Judge William Solomon. In another state police case, Vroman, who was arrested in May on drug charges filed by the county’s Narcotics Enforcement Unit after allegedly selling methamphetamine to an informant in the city, faces a misdemeanor count of criminal mischief for allegedly breaking two windows to a woman’s car at 179 Old Cement Road in Fairfield Township on June 28. He also was unable to post the $25,000 bail Solomon ordered in this case.