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A lit cigarette that landed on a police officer's vehicle led to a traffic stop, which resulted in a Fayette County man's arrest on drug charges.

David W. Gingrich, 28, of 174 Horse Bend Road, Acme, was charged by North Huntingdon police with drug possession, disorderly conduct, depositing waste on a highway and illegally operating a motor vehicle that was not equipped with an ignition interlock.

Gingrich first caught township Patrolman Jeremy Nichols' attention at 8:30 p.m. April 14, when he threw the cigarette out of a Honda Accord . . .

A search of the car, Gingrich and a passenger yielded three heroin packets, 10 Xanax pills and a small plastic bag of marijuana, police said.

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