People coming to Reading on buses from New York and Philadelphia on Friday were greeted by city and state police and a drug-detecting dog in a new effort to crack down on drugs entering the city.

It was the first time Reading police have searched everyone coming off buses at the Inter-City Bus Terminal at Third and Court streets, but officials said they plan to conduct similar searches at least once a month.

Police arrested one man who investigators said threw a bag of marijuana on the ground when officers approached him as he got off a bus from New York.

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