{"id":292567,"date":"2026-09-23T22:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292567\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T22:30:17","slug":"cheltenham-man-busted-in-cocaine-trafficking-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292567\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheltenham Man Busted In Cocaine-Trafficking Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHELTENHAM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A township man is among 10 people indicted on federal charges for their roles in a Philadelphia drug-trafficking organization that received hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from a Mexican drug cartel, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn Bell of Cheltenham was charged with conspiracy to distribute at least 5 kilograms of cocaine in the scheme, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/abington\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Jones and Edward Basley coordinated with the cartel to transport cocaine from Mexico, according to U.S. Attorney David Metcalf. <\/p>\n<p>Their group, which federal authorities called the Jones-Basley Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO), pushed $5-10 million worth of drugs onto the city&#8217;s streets each month, Metcalf said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Literal truckloads of cocaine have been seized as a result of this case and kept from flooding our city,&#8221; Metcalf said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI arrested five of the ring members on Tuesday in coordinated operations, officials said. The rest were already in state or federal custody.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/pennsylvania\/philadelphia\/10-busted-philadelphia-cocaine-trafficking-group-worked-mexican-cartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Click here to read more about the case<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patch Staff Writer June Bakan contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHELTENHAM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A township man is among 10 people indicted on federal charges for their roles&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-292567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292567","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=292567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}