Latrobe Resident Sentenced for Narcotics Convictions

PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A resident of Latrobe, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court on April 4, 2024, to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his convictions for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.

United States Senior District Judge Joy Flowers Conti imposed the sentence on Richard Bakey, 30.

According to information presented to the Court, on August 1, 2020, Drug Enforcement Administration agents purchased 100 Xanax bars from Bakey in exchange for $275. Months later, on May 24, 2021, Pennsylvania State Police troopers stopped a vehicle driven by Bakey, and seized multiple envelopes containing various types of pills, including 119 fentanyl pills.

Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan D. Lusty prosecuted this case on behalf of the government.

United States Attorney Olshan commended the United States Postal Inspection Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Pennsylvania State Police for the investigation leading to the successful prosecution of Bakey.