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Posted: 6:12 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013

Man arrested for drug possession, bench warrant

By NEWS9

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio —

A man is in the Jefferson County Jail awaiting arraignment after Steubenville police arrested him Friday on a bench warrant and for having drugs.

According to reports, police tracked down Joseph Elias, of Wintersville, at a gas station on North Seventh Street.

Officers pulled him over and later found eight hypodermic needles, tourniquets and over a gram of heroin, reports said.

Elias is charged with possession of narcotics, drug instruments and drug paraphernalia.

He is being held in the county jail without bond.

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