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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced yesterday that a resident of New Castle has been sentenced in federal court to 212 months in prison, followed by six years of supervised release, on his conviction of trafficking fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine while on federal supervised release. 

Thirty-three-year-old Melvin Dorsey-Pace was sentenced. 

According to information presented to the Court, on February 12th, 2025, Dorsey-Pace possessed with intent to distribute a mixture of fentanyl and heroin, as well as a mixture of fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine.

Dorsey-Pace was on federal supervised release at the time, following a 2024 release from jail for a prior drug trafficking conviction.  

This instant offense was the third federal drug trafficking conviction during the last 10 years for Dorsey-Pace, and he also has been on federal supervised release when he engaged in the criminal conduct which led to his second federal drug trafficking conviction.  

Dorsey-Pace was also on Pennsylvania state parole following a sentence in prison for a drive-by shooting when he engaged in the criminal conduct that led to his first federal drug trafficking conviction.