WILLIAMSPORT — More than 10 kilograms of drugs were found in a search of an SUV stopped by state police on Interstate 80 in Union County earlier this month.

That was revealed on Wednesday after Evan Mathew McCoy, 29, of Madison, Wisconsin, was arraigned in U.S. Middle District Court on a charge of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.

He originally was charged by state police, but those drug counts have since been dropped in favor of the federal indictment.

A trooper stopped McCoy’s SUV about 10:50 p.m. on Oct. 16 for following a vehicle too closely westbound on I-80, west of Route 15.

The state police affidavit filed in connection with the charges that have been dismissed provides this information about the incident:

McCoy denied a request to search the vehicle

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