Ex-Station Square nightclub manager guilty of more federal drug crimes

A former Station Square nightclub manager has pleaded guilty in federal court on a cocaine charge.

Vernon Jackson, 49, of Pittsburgh, is set to be sentenced Sept. 10 by Judge Joy Flowers Conti on one criminal count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

Authorities said Jackson, who managed the former nightclub Chauncy’s, was in his Brookline neighborhood home along Pioneer Avenue March 8, 2018 when detectives from the City of Pittsburgh Narcotics and Vice Unit executed a search warrant.

Detectives recovered multiple bags of cocaine, two digital scales, and drug packaging material from the kitchen of the home, police said.

Jackson was on federal supervised release at the time of the search warrant for a prior federal conviction for heroin trafficking. He was originally sentenced to 188 months on that offense, but his sentence was reduced to 151 months resulting in his early release.

Jackson was arrested in October 2004 and convicted of heroin trafficking and money laundering. Authorities said he helped lead a drug ring that brought raw heroin to Pittsburgh from New Jersey.

The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police conducted the investigation leading to the indictment in this case.