State College Man Sentenced for Dealing Heroin

A State College man will be spending a long time behind bars for his fifth drug dealing conviction.

Landare Hines, 38, was sentenced to eight to 16 years at a state correctional facility on Thursday. He was reportedly caught with $10,000 worth of heroin last year.

Hines was found guilty on three felony and three misdemeanor charges.

According to prosecutors police had enough evidence to arrest Hines after searching his home on March 28, 2014. Besides the heroin, police found a shoe box containing $1,630, empty gelatin capsules used to package heroin, a digital scale, multiple cell phones, grinders and a marijuana smoking device.

Hines had moved to the State College Area in September of 2013 with his girlfriend who was a co-defendant. In March of 2014, the Centre County Drug Task Force began working with a confidential informant to make several controlled purchases of heroin from a woman associated with the defendant, according to news release.

After several purchases, the police were directed to Hines’s neighborhood. They set up surveillance at the neighborhood and witnessed Hines meeting up with the woman prior to another controlled buy.

Police officers say Hines was making runs to Harrisburg and New York to purchase large amounts of heroin and bring it back to State College to deal.

In the news release, Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller says, “Since he refuses to make an honest living after multiple chances at reforming, it is increasingly clear that the community is only safe from him when he is off the street.”

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