K-9 sniffs out cocaine in Williamsport man's pockets, oxy in Mill Hall man's car
Williamsport, Pa. — A Williamsport man is charged with delivering one gram of cocaine and 18 Percocet pills to a Mill Hall man, according to court records. Franklin Probst of Mill Hall was pulled over after two traffic violations and allegedly admitted to buying the drugs from Khalil Mateen Baines, 40, of Williamsport. On Nov. 2, while sitting surveillance at the Family Dollar on Memorial Avenue, detectives saw a blue Lexus SUV registered to a Probst. Detectives watched Baines, who they described as "a known cocaine dealer in the Williamsport area," get out of the SUV's front passenger seat and walk inside the store. Baines reportedly stayed inside the story for two or three minutes, then returned and got back into the front passenger seat. The SUV then drove to the 400 block of Third Avenue where Baines exited and went into a residence. Probst drove the vehicle away, and was pulled over for crossing the street's double yellow line twice, according to detectives. Williamsport police, including Sgt. Brian McGee and K-9 Niko, conducted an open-air sniff of the vehicle. The K-9 gave a positive alert, and a subsequent search recovered the gram cocaine and 18 Percocet pills, also known
