2 Michigan men face drug charges after bust in Fayette County
UNIONTOWN, Pa. (KDKA) - Two Michigan men are facing felony drug charges in Fayette County, accused of dealing drugs in what appears to be a pipeline drug operation.
The Fayette County District Attorney said in a press conference on Friday that both men were commuting back and forth from Michigan to Pennsylvania, allegedly selling thousands of dollars in drugs including heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.
District Attorney Richard Bower said state police, the FBI and SERT teams served a search warrant at a home on March 1 in the Pershing Court area.
He said Christopher Kinchen and Raymund Williams were found in possession of drugs, guns and money.
Bower said authorities collected the following as evidence: A loaded stolen high point .380 handgun, 24 grams of heroin laced with fentanyl, 12 grams of cocaine, 253 blue round pills marked M30 oxycodone, naloxone strips, 15 white pills in an unlabeled pill bottle, .380 caliber ammo, three cell phones, digital scales, baggies and measuring cups and $3,120 in cash.
"Fayette County has been a place where there have always been drugs, just like every other county," Bower said. "We're taking it very seriously. These gentleman standing with me and have worked very diligently so that we can start doing things that may never have been done in this county before. I can't go into those details. There are things that we're doing that you'll be hearing about in the next three or four months."
The district attorney said Kinchen admitted to using and selling heroin and admitted he's a convicted felon who is not allowed to have a weapon or ammunition. Authorities said Williams also admitted to being a convicted felon out of Michigan.
"It's coming down from Detroit. We all know what happens in Detroit -- not the greatest place to be residing. We're not going to put up with it. And we haven't been putting up with it," Bower said.
The district attorney said the arrests are a message of potentially more to come in the coming months.
Bower would not comment if there is still a Detroit presence in the county right now or if there's been any movement in the past 48 hours due to the ongoing investigation.
