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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced on Friday that a resident of New Castle pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics and firearm laws. Forty-nine-year-old Daniel Feliciano pleaded guilty to six counts on Thursday. In connection with the guilty plea, the Court was advised that, between October of 2022 and March of 2024, Feliciano conspired with others to distribute cocaine throughout Western Pennsylvania, specifically in the area of New Castle. According to Rivetti, Feliciano could face a maximum total sentence of no less than five years and up to life in prison, an up to a $5 million fine, or both, provided by the law. Feliciano was one of 17 defendants from Lawrence County, Puerto Rico and
Youngstown, Ohio, indicted in March of 2024 in this case that saw members of the conspiracy transporting drugs from Puerto Rico to Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere for distribution and he was the last one of the seventeen defendants to plead guilty. Feliciano pleaded guilty to distributing and/or possessing with intent to distribute quantities of cocaine on three different dates, as well as possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and in furtherance of his drug trafficking crimes in addition to the conspiracy charge.