PITTSBURGH – A former resident of Verona, PA, has been
sentenced to federal prison on federal narcotics charges, United States
Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
Chace Johnson, age 21, formerly of Harvest Drive, previously
pleaded guilty to one count of maintaining a drug involved premises before
Chief U.S. District Court Judge Mark R. Hornak. Yesterday, Judge Hornak
sentenced Johnson to a term of 23 months in prison followed by three years of
supervised release.
According to information presented to the court in August
and September of 2017, Johnson guarded the drug house on Harvest Drive in
Verona, PA run by Jamie Lightfoot, Jr. and other co-conspirators. In
furtherance of this, Johnson guarded large sums of money used in the drug
trafficking and also acquired drug packaging material to be used in
re-packaging and distribution for the drugs coming into the house.
On November 5, 2017, an FBI and Pennsylvania State Police
Task Force executed a search warrant at the Harvest Drive location. The search netted
52 kilograms of cocaine and heroin, 85 pounds of marijuana, illegal steroids,
three firearms, and nearly a million dollars in cash.
Assistant United States Attorneys Timothy M. Lanni and Shaun
Sweeney are prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Pennsylvania
State Police, with assistance from the South Strabane Police Department, the
Elizabeth Borough Police Department, the Penn Hills Police Department and the
Perryopolis Police Department, conducted the investigation that led to the
Indictment in this case.
The investigation was funded by the federal Organized Crime
Drug Enforcement Task Force Program (OCDETF). The OCDETF program supplies
critical federal funding and coordination that allows federal and state
agencies to work together to successfully identify, investigate, and prosecute
major interstate and international drug trafficking organizations and other
criminal enterprises.
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