A Pennsylvania man is suing two state troopers who filed drug charges against him for carrying a powdery white substance during a July 2023 traffic stop in Dauphin County.
State Trooper Phillip Pronick told a magisterial district judge the powdery substance was a mixture of fentanyl and xylazine in court documents requesting an arrest warrant, according to the lawsuit.
But months later, after 33-year-old Amicar Maldonado Montengudo spent two weeks in Rikers Island Jail in New York, law enforcement told the judge it was baking soda, the lawsuit said…