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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) Acting U.S. Attorney Troy Revetti announced Tuesday that an Ambridge resident pleaded guilty to violating drug trafficking and firearms laws. Forty-four-year-old Maurice Mosely, Jr. got fifteen years in jail and eight years of supervised release that is federal. According to an investigation, Mosely distributed controlled substances from his Ambridge residence and the Aliquippa residence of his girlfriend. Mosley was also convicted of four previous crimes involving felony drug trafficking. Law enforcement executed search warrants upon both locations on July 21st, 2021. The result was a seizure of ammunition and a stolen, loaded handgun from the residence of Mosley and a bulk of currency from the United States and crack cocaine from a search of Mosley’s person. According to Revetti, federal law prohibits possession of a firearm or ammunition by a convicted felon. The search of the residence of his girlfriend also resulted in distribution quantities of crack, methamphetamine, and cocaine, two digital scales, an owe sheet and about $4,000 in cash being seized. Following these seizures, the subject of a traffic stop in New Brighton, Pennsylvania, in August of 2021 was Mosley. The officer identified signs of impairment and observed Mosely kick a bag underneath the driver’s seat upon approaching the vehicle. The seizure of crack and other currency from the United States in a bulk was the result of a search incident to the arrest of Mosley. Law enforcement also responded to a fight outside of a bar in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in September of 2021. A surveillance camera within the bar recorded Mosely reach for his waist, run toward a nearby cigarette machine, and throw an item behind the machine, with an audible clunk when the item Mosely threw struck the ground upon the arrival outside from law enforcement. Law enforcement
had all of the bar patrons line up outside of the building, with which Mosely initially complied before he fleed the scene on foot. Subsequently, that bar in Beaver Falls was searched and a loaded handgun that was behind the cigarette machine was seized as a result.