-from courant.com-

By Hilda Munoz

MANCHESTER - Narcotics officers seized half a pound of marijuana and arrested a suspected drug dealer during a drug bust Wednesday on Huntington Street.

Collie Golding is being charged with possession of more than four ounces of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intent to sell, possession of marijuana within 1500 feet of a school and possession of marijuana with intent to sell within 1500 feet of a school.

He is being held on $250,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 18.

A tip about a marijuana dealer in Manchester led police to Golding, a 48-year-old Hartford resident. Members of the East Central Narcotics Task Force developed enough evidence against Golding to get a search warrant for his car, police said.

Officers detained Golding in his car on Huntington Street and found marijuana that was packaged for sale, police said.