Attorney General announces capture of 25 alleged drug dealers

GREENSBURG - Attorney General Tom Corbett and Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck announced that officers of the Westmoreland County Drug Task Force and agents from the Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation (BNI) have captured 25 out of 34 alleged drug dealers operating in Westmoreland County.

Corbett said that the arrests are the result of a seven-month investigation into alleged street-level drug dealing in Westmoreland County.

Corbett said the arrests are the result of undercover drug purchases by task force officers and BNI agents. The drugs involved include cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin and the pain killer Oxycontin.

Corbett said most of the undercover buys occurred in and around New Kensington, Arnold, Greensburg, Latrobe, Derry, Jeannette and Rostraver.

Corbett said as part of the investigation, the police in Rostraver Township requested the assistance from the task force in helping to alleviate street-level drug dealers in their community. Corbett explained that the purpose of the Drug Task Force is to attack problems in specific areas at the request of local police departments.

Corbett said among the defendants being charged is a Westmoreland County prison guard who is charged with possession and delivery of heroin. Read more..