A Braddock man was ordered to serve 18 months in federal prison for trafficking crack cocaine in the Greenway Projects in Pittsburgh’s West End.
Bryan Smith, 24, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab.
Prosecutors said, in 2017, the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration conducted wire taps targeting the GBK street gang. From November 2017 through June 2018 Smith and co-conspirators distributed crack in the West End.
Smith was the first of 28 people charged.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Tonya Sulia Goodman and Yvonne Saadi prosecuted this case.
United States Attorney Scott Brady at Pittsburgh commended the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration as well as the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, Allegheny County Sheriff’s Office, State Police, Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, and the Robinson and Stowe Township police and the Wilkinsburg Borough and McKees Rocks police departments.
The investigation was funded by the federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program.
