Warrant out for man police say sold heroin, fentanyl in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties

Police are looking for a 72-year-old Upper Burrell man accused of selling heroin and fentanyl in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties following an undercover investigation.

Larry Sieff, who has a warrant out for his arrest, is charged with six felony counts of manufacturing, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture and three misdemeanors for possession of controlled substances.

Sieff’s address is listed as Upper Drennan Road in Upper Burrell in court documents, but police say he also was living in an RV in Adamsburg at the time of the police investigation.

North Huntingdon Township police arranged for multiple undercover purchases of the narcotics, according to the criminal complaint against Sieff.

On May 29, an undercover North Huntingdon officer drove Sieff to the parking lot of a bar in North Versailles and gave him $1,500 to buy 10 bricks of heroin and fentanyl for him, the complaint said.

A blue car, with a man, woman and child in it, pulled into the the spot next to the undercover vehicle. Sieff gave the driver, who goes by the name “Grant,” the money, the complaint said.

Sieff then wrapped the bricks in a paper towel and later gave them to the undercover officer outside Sieff’s Adamsburg residence, the complaint said.

On June 8, the officer and Sieff traveled to a Family Dollar in Clairton to meet the same man to buy 20 bricks of heroin and fentanyl for $3,000, according to police.

In the store parking lot, Sieff exited the vehicle when the same blue car arrived and met the man inside the front of the store, the complaint said. He then left the store and put the money inside the man’s car before returning to the undercover vehicle.

The man then exited the store and gave Sieff a blue flannel jacket with a clear bag of bricks of heroin and fentanyl, the complaint said.

Sieff later gave the 20 bricks to the undercover officer.

Then, on June 16, the officer arranged to buy crack cocaine from Sieff and another man, who goes by the name “Uncle Joe,” from a plaza in Squirrel Hill, according to the complaint.

The complaint said Sieff told the officer he’d been buying crack cocaine from “Uncle Joe” for more than 13 years.

Sieff and the officer arrived at the parking lot outside Jersey Mike’s on Browns Hill Road. Sieff then got into a gray Dodge Durango, which circled the building once before Sieff got out.

When he got back into the undercover vehicle, he placed a clear plastic bag with crack cocaine in the glove compartment and later gave it to the officer, the complaint said.

Police said it was about 27.9 grams of crack cocaine.

Sieff has other pending drug charges from February, which he has a preliminary hearing scheduled for on Sept. 30 at District Judge Charles Moore’s office.

Court records show the hearing for those charges was originally scheduled for Aug. 19, the same day the above charges were filed, but the hearing was continued.