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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) First Assistant United States Attorney Troy Revetti announced today that sixty-year-old Edward Dietrich of New Castle, has been sentenced in federal court on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws. Dietrich was sentenced to six days in jail, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute cocaine, fentanyl and heroin. Dietrich, who suffers from multiple serious physical and medical conditions, participated in a conspiracy that wanted to distribute large quantities of controlled substances in New Castle as well as in Detroit, Michigan. According to information presented to the Court, Dietrich primarily participated in the conspiracy by allowing fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine to be stored inside and distributed from his New Castle residence for months between August of 2023 and August of 2024, with him having received controlled substances as compensation for the use of his residence for that purpose.