Butler County man sentenced to probation for gang-related heroin, cocaine trafficking charges

A Butler County man has been sentenced to time served and three years of probation for his role in a gang-related conspiracy to sell cocaine and heroin, federal prosecutors said.

Ray Chrzanowski, 53, who previously had ties to Portersville and Zelienople, was nabbed as part of an FBI investigation into the Greenway Boy Killas street gang in Pittsburgh’s West End.

The wiretap investigation revealed that, in November 2017 through June 2018, Chrzanowski and his co-conspirators cooked powder cocaine into crack cocaine and conspired to distribute quantities of crack cocaine and heroin.

In September 2019, Chrzanowski pleaded guilty in federal court Pittsburgh to a drug conspiracy involving 11 people associated with the GBK gang. He was accused in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, and heroin and faced six charges until he changed his plea from not guilty to guilty, according to U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady.

More than a year before his guilty plea, in June 2018, Chrzanowski was among 28 suspects indicted on drug trafficking and firearms charges. A federal grand jury accused the alleged members and affiliates of Greenway Boy Killas, or GBK, of conspiring to sell large amounts of crack cocaine, powder cocaine and heroin.

“Working with our federal state and local partners and using every tool at our disposal,” U.S. Attorney Scott W. Brady said at the time, “we will prosecute gangs like the Greenway Boy Killas, which terrorize our neighborhoods and put innocent people in danger, to the fullest extent of the law.

Then-FBI Special Agent in Charge Bob Jones previously said the case should serve as a warning to other members of street gangs and perpetrators of violence.

“We want to make this clear to other gangs operating in our communities: We are coming for you, and the violence won’t be tolerated,” Jones said.

The investigation was funded by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, which provides money for federal and state agencies to work together on cases involving major drug trafficking and criminal enterprises.

Assistant U.S. attorneys Tonya Sulia Goodman and Yvonne M. Saadi prosecuted the case.