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Vol. 81 No. 40
Wednesday, October 3; 1984
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PIUS Home Improvement Section Today
SOCCER ACTION. Sewickley Academy’s Alan MacVicar battles a North Allegheny player for control of the ball in a game played last Saturday. Unfortunately, MacVicar and the rest of the Panthers came out on the short end of a 2-1 score. However, Sewickley Academy is enjoying an excellent season this year. Their record after nine games is seven wins, one loss and one tie. For more details see. Pages 23 and 24. Photo.By Jack Parrish)
Last date to register for the Election is October 9
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Drug-ring arrests net local man
hieh-volume cocaine and marijuana Allegheny County Police Department. the grand-jury supervising judge, Beaver County Police Center. .They
A high-volume cocaine and marijuana distribution network that reportedly supplied the Quaker Valley section of Allegheny County has been uncovered.
James J. Koval, a spokesman for Pennsylvania Attorney General LeRoy S. • Zimmerman, told the Herald that 10 alleged drug dealers—including Thomas P, Foleno, 32, of 602 Locust Place, Sewickley—were arrested last week.
“This loosely organized network of alleged pushers is believed to be a major source of illegal drugs for street dealers in Beaver County and parts Of Allegheny and Butler counties,” Zimmerman said.
One of the 10 suspects will be charged with perjury in addition to the drug-related charges. An lith man has been arrested and charged with perjury Tor allegedly lying to the Statewide Investigating Grand Jury.
Last week’s arrests, Zimmerman said, “stem from anongoing major investigation of drug trafficking in Western Pennsylvania.”
The investigation of the alleged Beaver County based dope ring is being jointly conduced by agents of Zimmerman’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and the Beaver County District Attorney’s office, assisted by the
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Allegheny County Police Department.
“Special credit must be given to the Beaver County District Attorney Ed-1 ward J, Tocci and Assistant District Attorney John Lee Brown, who presented evidence against the 10 drug suspects to the grand jury and who will prosecute the cases in Beaver County Common Pleas Court,” Zimmerman said.
The two perjury suspects, one of whom is also a drug suspect, will be prosecuted separately in Dauphin County Common Pleas Court by a deputy attorney general from Zimmerman’s office because the alleged perjury occurred in Dauphin County.
In addition to Thomas Foleno of Sewickley, the following persons were arrested and charged in the bust:
James Alexander, 31, of Ellwood City; John P. Maruca. 33. of R.D. 1 Beaver Falls; John C. Kaluza II, 34, of R.D. 2 Beaver; Michael J. Konechny, 33, of Fayette County; Margaret Mathesius, 31, Of Beaver; Roger G. Morgan, 37, of Ellwood City; Kerry K. Patterson, 33, and his wife, Deborah, of New Brighton; Alan “Big Al” Weyand, 30, of New Brighton; and Rocky Alan Pedaline, 33, of Rochester.
According to Koval, last week’s arrests were based on two separate grand-jury presentment approved earlier by
the grand-jury supervising judge, Lebanon County Common Pleas Court Judge G. .Thomas Gates. Everything remained sealed until investigators were ready to make the wave of arrests.
In one presentment, the grand jury identifies Alexander and Maruca as alleged key figures in a drug ring distributing large quantities of cocaine and marijuana throughout Western Pennsylvania from 1979 to May 1984.
The presentment alleges that Sewicklcy’s Foleno, Mathesius, and Deborah Patterson were middle-level assistants in the Alexander-Maruca operation, with Konechny acting as a Street-level dealer.	'
The presentment further alleges that Kerry Patterson, Morgan, Kaluza and Weyand were independent drug pushers who bought their drugs from the Alexander-Maruca group for distribution through their own separate street-level dealers.
In the second presentment, the grand jury accuses Kerry Patterson of lying during his testimony concerning the Alexander-Maruca drug investigation. Also, it alleges that Pedaline lied during his testimony concerning a drug-related investigation,
All 11 suspects were arraigned before District Justice Ross Keefer at The
Beaver County Police Center, were charged with the following:
Alexander—two counts of conspiracy and four counts of unlawful delivery of controlled substances.
Foleno, Maruca, Kaluza, Konechny and Deborah Patterson—one count each of conspiracy,
Mathesius, Morgan and Weyland'—*two counts each of conspiracy.
Kerry Patterson—two counts of conspiracy, one count of unlawful delivery of controlled substances, five counts of perjury and five counts of obstructing administration of law.
Pedaline—one count of perjury' and one count of obstructing administration of law..
Each conspiracy and delivery count carries a maximum penalty of five years in jail and a $15,000 fine.
Each perjury count carries a maximum penalty of Seven years in jail and a $15,000 fine. Each obstruction count carries a maximum of two years and $5,000.
Assisting Zimmerman’s BNI agents in the arrests were Pennsylvania State troopers, Beaver County deputy sheriffs and police officers from Ambridge, Beaver, Daugherty Township, New Brighton and Rochester.
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