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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced yesterday that a resident of McKees Rocks has been sentenced in federal court to 151 months of imprisonment on his conviction of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and fentanyl, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.

Thirty-five-year-old Glendale Smith was sentenced on November 6th, 2026.

According to information presented to the Court, on July 24th, 2024, police officers approached Smith, who was the subject of multiple active arrest warrants, in the Larimer area of Pittsburgh.

As Smith escaped from the officers, he threw a bag that contained 22 grams of crack cocaine and 30 stamp bags of fentanyl, as well as the keys to his vehicle.

Law enforcement found a stolen firearm loaded with an extended magazine inside the vehicle.

At the time that he committed the instant offense, Smith was on parole for illegally possessing a firearm and possessing with intent to distribute a controlled substance in an Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas case.

This federal conviction is his third adult conviction, and fourth conviction overall, for illegally possessing a firearm, as well as his third drug trafficking conviction.

Federal law prohibits a convicted felon possessing either ammunition or a firearm.