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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) Troy Rivetti, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, announced that an Aliquippa man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for drug trafficking.

Officials said 47-year-old Romaro Lanarie Foster Sr. was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release after being convicted of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.

According to prosecutors, Foster was part of an interstate drug trafficking organization investigated between March and September 2022.

Authorities said a supplier in California mailed parcels containing kilogram quantities of cocaine to an Aliquippa residence. After law enforcement intercepted a shipment containing two kilograms of cocaine, the operation shifted.

Prosecutors said the supplier began sending packages to a co-defendant in West Virginia, who then transported the drugs to Foster in Aliquippa.

Investigators later learned Foster planned to travel to Georgia to obtain cocaine for distribution. In September 2022, law enforcement stopped Foster in South Carolina during his return trip to Pennsylvania and seized about four kilograms of cocaine from his vehicle.