State police patrolling the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Mt. Pleasant Township Wednesday seized raw and packaged heroin and crack cocaine from a Philadelphia motorist, according to court papers.

Anthony Carlton Marter Lewis, 27, was westbound near mile marker 83 when he was pulled over at 3:21 p.m. for following another vehicle too closely, police said.

A trooper noticed an odor of raw marijuana coming from the Ford Fusion, and Lewis gave permission to search the car, according to the affidavit.

Hidden underneath a spare tire in the trunk troopers found in a bag about 73 grams of crack cocaine, 7 grams of raw heroin and approximately 200 bags of packaged heroin. About 9 grams of powder cocaine was confiscated from Lewis' shirt pocket, police said.

A female passenger, also of Philadelphia, was not arrested.

Lewis is charged with drug possession and possession with intent to deliver. He is being held in the Westmoreland County Prison on $250,000 bail.

A preliminary hearing is set on March 8. He did not have an attorney listed in online court records.

Wednesday's arrest was the third time in February that a driver was pulled over by troopers in that area of the turnpike for a minor traffic violation and police found a load of drugs in the vehicle.

On Feb. 1, police reported finding 25,000 packets of heroin in a high-tech hidden compartment of a westbound vehicle.

On Feb. 6, police seized five bags of suspected cocaine, about 3 pounds of marijuana in a sealed drywall bucket and a stolen gun in an eastbound vehicle.

Renatta Signorini is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach her at 724-837-5374, rsignorini@tribweb.com or via Twitter @byrenatta.

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