{"id":104795,"date":"2026-02-04T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104795\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:30:06","slug":"convicted-felon-receives-10-years-in-prison-on-federal-drug-trafficking-charges-out-of-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/104795\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted felon receives 10 years in prison on federal drug trafficking charges out of Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A previously convicted felon from Pittsburgh has received a new sentence for federal drug trafficking charges. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the Department of Justice said Timothy Bazmore, 35, also known as \u201cSlim,\u201d was sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials said Bazmore had 22 grams of crack cocaine when he was arrested, along with a loaded gun, which he was prohibited from having because of a previous felony conviction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Judge W. Scott Hardy said he factored Bazmore\u2019s \u201cextensive criminal history\u201d in his decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The arrest was the result of a collaboration between the Pittsburgh Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A previously convicted felon from Pittsburgh has received a new sentence for federal drug trafficking charges.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22087,3646,4738,9317,12499,13366,22071,22072,31,784,22073,8429,22074,22075,22076,22077,22078,22079,4394,15653,740,742,4751,22080,139,557,22081,73,75,74,16632,796,13559,13560,787,7363,3860,788,13471,22082,22083,22084,526,22085,22086,4758,109],"class_list":["post-104795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-afraid","tag-authority","tag-background","tag-barrier","tag-bars","tag-cell","tag-convict","tag-cover","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-escape","tag-free","tag-illegal","tag-illustrative","tag-imprisonment","tag-incarceration","tag-incidents","tag-iron","tag-jail","tag-judgment","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-legal","tag-modern","tag-news","tag-old","tag-penitentiary","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-press","tag-prison","tag-protect","tag-protection","tag-punishment","tag-safety","tag-security","tag-sentence","tag-steel","tag-stereotype","tag-symbolic","tag-term","tag-time","tag-trapped","tag-typical","tag-verdict","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}