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A Pittsburgh man has been charged with heading a gun and drug trafficking operation, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Friday.
Dennis Alexander, 28, allegedly oversaw the sale of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, Oxycodone and stolen guns.
The Office of the Attorney General worked with the New Brighton Police Department and Pittsburgh police on the investigation, which lasted 10 months.
It culminated in a search warrant conducted Jan. 21 where, authorities say, officers found drugs and a stolen gun at a property allegedly associated with Alexander.
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PHILADELPHIA The city of Philadelphia has cut ties with a COVID-19 vaccine provider, saying it lost trust in them as an organization, after a slew of controversial moves by the group and its 22-year-old CEO, who admitted Thursday he took vaccine doses and administered them to four friends.
Additionally, Philly Fighting COVID (PFC) unexpectedly shuttered its COVID-19 testing operations to focus on vaccine administration and changed from a nonprofit organization to a for-profit entity a shift the health department said it learned about from local news outlets.
Concerns were also raised about changes to PFC s privacy policy that would allow it to sell patients data collected through their online registration site, according to a report from a local news outlet.
Farley is taking full responsibility for the now-failed partnership between the city and Philly Fighting COVID. Ultimate, the responsibility for that goes to me. The report will outline more about the process, but ultimately I take responsibility for that, said Dr. Farley.
The report he is referring to was specifically requested by Mayor Jim Kenney on Friday, who has directed the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to take a number of corrective steps following the fallout with Philly Fighting COVID s vaccine distribution.
On Friday morning, Kenney sent a letter to Farley directing the department to host its own clinics and produce a public report within 30 days detailing how the organization came to work with city.