{"id":312095,"date":"2026-10-22T18:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312095\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T18:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T18:34:06","slug":"five-charged-in-central-pennsylvania-drug-trafficking-and-gun-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/312095\/","title":{"rendered":"Five charged in Central Pennsylvania drug trafficking and gun case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Five people are charged in an investigation into a drug-trafficking operation that allegedly sold fentanyl, methamphetamine and firearms across four Pennsylvania counties, Attorney General Dave Sunday announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Attorney General filed charges this week against Marcus A. Denson, Jovar Hairston, Larry Minnifield, Alisha Massa and Gregory Johnson. Investigators said they documented numerous drug sales in Dauphin, Blair, Cumberland and Clinton counties.<\/p>\n<p>Denson is also charged with trafficking firearms, including at least one \u201cghost gun.\u201d He is prohibited from possessing firearms because of a prior felony conviction, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Massa and Johnson were arrested Wednesday. Authorities said efforts were continuing to take the other three defendants into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators seized six firearms during the case. The charges will be prosecuted by the Attorney General\u2019s Drug Strike Force Section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, DAUPHIN CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Five people are charged in an investigation into a drug-trafficking operation that allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-312095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312095","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=312095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}