SUNBURY — A Northumberland man was ordered to stand trial in Northumberland County Court after his daughter testified Thursday that he supplied her with marijuana to sell to regular customers in the Sunbury area from January to May at $2,200 a pound.
Neil Andrew Neidig, 51, of 572 Duke St., Northumberland, and 343 Ellison Ave., Lake Placid, Fla., has been charged with multiple drug counts and resisting arrest. His preliminary hearing was held before District Judge Carl Rice.
Neidig’s daughter, Amy Nicole Neidig, 18, of 608 Market St., Sunbury, admitted working with her father and said she supplied drugs to Juan Dockey, a confidential police informant, on a number of occasions.
“There were several times throughout the last couple of months that I sold marijuana to him,” she said.
Neidig was driving his daughter’s car on June 3, when he was pulled over by state trooper Mark Ruscavage for going 58 in a 50 mph zone on Interstate 80. Thirteen pounds of marijuana, $13,000 cash, and nine switchblade knifes were found in the car, police said.
Ruscavage told the court on Thursday that Neidig also had two cell phones, which “is a cue for certain criminal activity,” he said. The trooper did not know Neidig was being investigated for drug dealing by municipal police at the time.
Amy Neidig said the marijuana was stored at her apartment, her father’s house and in storage sheds. Her father was living in Florida when she made the sales, she said.
Amy said the prices were determined by her father, and that she did whatever he instructed her to do. After collecting the money, she said she was “instructed to either hang onto it, or give it to my Uncle Brett.”
The money would ultimately go to her father, she said.
She believed her father was purchasing the marijuana in New York City.
It came in white buckets, usually containing 10 pounds. She sold them by the pound in baggies to approximately four people, she said.
Dockey confirmed that, on police orders, he made contact with Amy or Neil Neidig seven times between January and April, meeting at Amy’s house, Neil’s house, Plum Creek Road and the 500 block of Race Street.
He would buy a pound of marijuana at a time.
Dockey said he planned to purchase another pound on May 15, and he met with Neil Neidig. Dockey said Neidig told him that he knew he was being set up and that he and his daughter were “going down in a sting in August.”
“He said if his daughter went down in any of this, that I would be eliminated,” Dockey told the court on Thursday.
Point Township police officer Wade Lytle, acting on a warrant from state police and the state attorney general, contacted Neil Neidig in June and told him “I needed him to come turn himself in.”
Officers, were told to arrest Neidig if they saw him on the streets. They surrounded him in Sunbury last month at North Fourth and Race streets, where he resisted arrest.
Neidig appeared before a grand jury on June 15.
Judge Rice denied a request for bail reduction Thursday, believing Neidig was a flight risk because of his residence in Florida.
The amount of marijuana was also substantial, he said. Neidig is being held at Northumberland County Prison.
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Neil Neidig, of Northumberland, is escorted from a preliminary hearing on marijuana charges before District Judge Carl Rice in Sunbury on Thursday. Liz Rohde/The Daily Item
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