Lewisburg shop owner faces felony drug charges after campus undercover buy

Bucknell University police say a Lewisburg business owner was pulled into a campus drug case after investigators used a confidential informant to make a controlled buy on the Bucknell University campus.

The suspect, Kurt D. Reichenbach, 56, of Spring Mills, who owns the Grasshopper Gift Shop on Market Street, was charged after the alleged purchase on April 18, 2026. Investigators say the informant had told police Reichenbach was selling marijuana, prompting officers to arrange the buy in a campus parking lot while they watched.

According to the criminal complaint, the informant handed Reichenbach $60 and received a small black, cylinder-shaped container that later tested positive for marijuana. Police stopped Reichenbach on University Avenue shortly afterward and, the affidavit says, found the informant’s money on him.

A search of Reichenbach’s vehicle, police say, turned up a mason jar containing a plastic Ziploc bag of marijuana, several additional jars of marijuana and a glass smoking pipe with burned residue. The complaint charges him with felony manufacture, delivery or possession with intent to deliver, along with misdemeanor possession counts. Bail was set at $50,000 unsecured, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 28, 2026.

The case puts a downtown Lewisburg business owner under felony drug scrutiny in the shadow of Bucknell’s campus, where university police play a direct role in campus safety enforcement. Bucknell says its Clery Act crime log is part of the federally required disclosures schools must maintain for campus security and crime statistics.

It also lands in the middle of a business district that the Lewisburg Downtown Partnership says is a historic commercial core listed on the National Register of Historic Places and home to more than 40 specialty retail stores. That makes the allegations more than a single arrest: they involve a storefront tied to the downtown economy, a university police investigation and a reported sale close to campus.

Pennsylvania law treats delivery, manufacture or possession with intent to deliver as a serious controlled-substances offense, and the state’s drug-trafficking sentencing law allows enhanced penalties in cases involving larger marijuana quantities. Even a relatively small alleged sale can therefore escalate quickly into felony charges with lasting consequences for a local business owner and the downtown corridor around Market Street.