WARREN — A man who was driving a 17-year-old Lyft passenger when he was pulled over by Warren police with 18 bindles of heroin is facing four felony charges in Warren Municipal Court, according to police and court records.

Christopher Scott, 29, 2106 Parkman Road NW, pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of tampering with evidence and three counts of felony drug possession, according to court records.

The charges are a result of a warrant issued for his arrest in connection to a June 18 incident, according to court records.

He is being held in lieu of a $3,500 bond in the Trumbull County Jail and scheduled to appear Aug. 21 for a hearing.

Officers expect to file additional charges of trafficking in drugs, possession of drugs and tampering with evidence after lab testing results are returned, according to the police report.

Scott was pulled over around 7:30 p.m. Saturday on Oriole Place SW when the officer who filed the warrants for Scott’s arrest for the June incident noticed the car he knew Scott drives, a silver Crown Victoria, the report states.

A boy, 13, who Scott said is his nephew was sitting in the passenger seat, and a girl, 17, was sitting in the back, using his Lyft car service, he told police, the report states. There is a Lyft sticker on the vehicle Scott was driving.

He was holding a wad of money and sweating profusely, the report states.

In the car, police found four bindles of suspected heroin, the report states. A “bindle” is a piece of paper, often a lottery ticket, folded up to hold powdery drugs in it, “commonly used in the selling of narcotics,” the report states.

After Scott was delivered to the Trumbull County Jail, officers found a bag in the cruiser behind where Scott was sitting, the report states. There was about nine grams of suspected crack, and 14 more bindles of heroin in the bag, the report states.

Police confiscated $2,630 that Scott was carrying.

The boy was released to an aunt and the teen passenger was released at the scene.

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