Three Local Residents Face Heroin Trafficking Charges
Swissvale, Braddock and Wilkinsburg residents indicted as Homestead heroin-trafficking ring dismantled.
Three local men are among 34 residents of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York that have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws. Richard Wood, 33, of Swissvale; Troy Anderson, 24, of Braddock; and Dorianne Harris, 20, of Wilkinsburg were charged after a nearly year-long federal, state and local law enforcement investigation into drug trafficking and violence in Homestead. The charges were contained in six related indictments, returned on March 6 and unsealed Thursday. "This investigation was a response to the increased violence and incidence of drug trafficking in the Homestead, Pa. area, much of which was attributed to a gang, or criminal enterprise, known as the …
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10:46 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
What a waste, Stop the drug 'war.' Also, this article is basically a word for word cut and paste from the DOJ press release. more ›