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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that a Pittsburgh man recently got a sentence in jail of nine to eighteen years for drug trafficking in Beaver and Allegheny Counties. Twenty-nine-year-old Dennis Alexander already pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property, one count of a person not to possess a firearm and four counts of possession with intent to deliver. Alexander is the leader of a drug-trafficking organization that is based in Pittsburgh. According to authorities, Alexander, or one of his associates, sold controlled substances to a confidential informant or an undercover officer on a dozen occasions. According to a release from the office of Sunday, Alexander was living in Pittsburgh while selling heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, oxycodone, methamphetamine, and marijuana in multiple counties. Alexander also has two previous felony drug convictions in Pennsylvania, and they date back to July of 2016 and February of 2017. Alexander also had a firearm and drugs after a search warrant of him was executed by agents and he was prohibited from having those items.