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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced yesterday that eight residents of southwest Pennsylvania have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal drug laws. 

 The eight-count Indictment against them follows a 15-month Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF) investigation into a drug trafficking organization and the defendants are charged with conspiring to distribute, possessing with intent to distribute, and/or distributing various quantities of cocaine during the period between June 1st, 2025, and September 1st, 2026.  

The Indictment was unsealed following the arrests of seven of the defendants yesterday morning. 

Authorities identified those charged as forty-five-year-old Terrance Bonner, fifty-nine-year-old Martin Langford, fifty-three-year-old Roddell Smalls, forty-five-year-old Maurice Tinsley, forty-seven-year-old Justin Rumble, forty-five-year-old Oscar Stokes, and forty-seven-year-old Rashawdi Pugh. 

Pugh is from Aliquippa, Tinsley is from Bellevue, Stokes is from Uniontown, and the rest of them are from Pittsburgh.  

The law provides for a maximum total sentence of not less than 10 years and up to life in prison, a fine of up to $10 million, or both for the conspiracy charge. 

The law provides for a maximum total sentence of not less than five years and up to 40 years in prison, a fine of up to $5 million, or both for 500 grams or more of cocaine, or up to 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $1 million, or both for a quantity of cocaine for the possession charges.