{"id":250543,"date":"2026-07-23T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250543\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:50:07","slug":"grand-jury-indicts-16-pittsburgh-residents-in-cocaine-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250543\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand jury indicts 16 Pittsburgh residents in cocaine case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators have arrested 16 Pittsburgh residents on cocaine-trafficking charges, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A grand jury indicted the defendants, who were arrested Thursday, according to U.S. Attorney Troy Rivetti. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office said the defendants conspired to distribute and possess cocaine from November until this month.<\/p>\n<p>The office described DeConta Harrison, 48, of being the lead defendant, and attributed possession of at least 280 grams of crack cocaine to him.<\/p>\n<p>The other defendants named by federal prosecutors are:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jozef Bozeman, 47<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Charles Brannon, 54<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rashaan Campbell, 45<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Bobby Chatman, 65<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Harold Jones Sr., 65<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 William Jones, 45<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Alonzo Kidd, 50,<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Greg Nash, 65<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jeff O\u2019Keefe, 35<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Keith Payne, 50<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Brandon Rodgers, 41<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 John Malcolm Smith, 44<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Tyisha Somerville, 32<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Kyrie Weston, 39<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Deshawn Williams, 44<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators have arrested 16 Pittsburgh residents on cocaine-trafficking charges, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. A grand jury indicted the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-250543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250543","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=250543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}