Yearlong heroin investigation ends with guilty pleas
An Allegheny County man pleaded guilty in two heroin distribution cases in Butler County Court on Wednesday.
Vernon A. Daniels Jr., 29, of Natrona Heights, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance — heroin — before President Judge Thomas Doerr.
The plea agreement calls for a sentence of 2½ to 6 years in state prison, restitution, fines and costs. He is scheduled for sentencing on March 22.
Daniels was initially charged with three counts of felony possession with intent, dealing in proceeds of unlawful activity, receiving stolen property, possession of a firearm prohibited, false written statement, tampering with evidence, three counts of misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance and two counts of possession of paraphernalia and several summary traffic violations after two incidents on March 16.
State police filed the charges after a traffic stop on Route 356 near Monroe Road in Buffalo Township.
A full story appears in the Butler Eagle.
