Pittsburgh man faces detention in ‘Super’ heroin case
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Pittsburgh man faces a hearing before a federal magistrate to determine whether he’ll remain jailed until he can stand trial on charges he sold heroin.
Federal agents believe some of the drugs sold by 30-year-old Allen Coleman Jr. was laced with the powerful painkiller fentanyl and may be responsible for at least one recent overdose death.
Coleman isn’t charged with causing any overdoses or deaths, only with possessing heroin with intent to deliver it.
But a 15-page probable cause affidavit filed with the charges says some of those drugs – sold in bags marked “Super” – have been linked to one death last month in neighboring Westmoreland County. Authorities are also trying to determine whether other deadly overdoses are linked to the same drugs Coleman sold.
His attorney hasn’t commented on the charges.