PENNSYLVANIA (WTAJ) — After a multi-agency investigation, a man and his three conspirators are facing charges in connection with selling guns and drugs to an undercover cop, Attorney General Dave Sunday announced.
David Jefferies, 34, James Womack, 33, and Shelton Payne, 34, are all charged with illegal possession of a firearm as well as drug trafficking charges. Jefferies, Womack, and Payne all have prior felonies that prohibit them from possessing firearms. Andre Ellis-Barnes, 41, is also being charged with allegedly selling controlled substances to an undercover cop.
According to AG Sunday, a recent search of Jefferies’ home led officers to find a Glock 9mm handgun and about 382 grams of fentanyl and black tar heroin.
The Office of the Attorney General says the Westmoreland County Drug Task Force and North Huntingdon, Monessen, Rostraver, New Kensington, and Irwin police departments assisted with the investigation.
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Senior Deputy Attorney General Tomm Mutschler will be prosecuting the case.
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