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Feds charge 44 in suburban Pittsburgh heroin ring

PITTSBURGH — Federal prosecutors and the FBI say they’ve charged 44 people in a suburban Pittsburgh heroin ring that brazenly sold drugs while wearing T-shirts with the slogan, “Bricks R Us.”

In drug parlance, a brick is a group of 10 stamp — or individual dose — bags of heroin.

U.S. Attorney David Hickton and the FBI say the group was supplied out of Newark, N.J., and sold drugs in Pittsburgh but, mostly, in several of its south and east suburbs.

Many of those regions are crime-ridden, but many of the deals occurred openly in Monroeville.

The agency did not list the names of the people who were charged.

The feds say 12 of the suspects remain at-large.

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