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A Youngstown man with prior convictions for drug trafficking, possession of heroin and assault on a peace officer was charged Friday in a seven-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Cleveland. Raphael Ortiz, 40, is charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, distribution of fentanyl, using and maintaining a drug premises, possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and as a felon in possession of firearms. According to the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint, on Jan. 6, 2021, law enforcement officers with the FBI, Mahoning Valle...

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN — The drug and weapons charges filed against Raphael Ortiz, 40, on Thursday in U.S. District Court have been bound over to a federal grand jury. Ortiz appeared by video for an initial appearance late Friday and waived a preliminary hearing. Ortiz will remain in the Mahoning County jail until his next hearing. Presiding over the hearing was Magistrate Judge Kathleen B. Burke in Cleveland federal court. Ortiz was arrested Wednesday after investigators entered his home on Wesley Avenue on the West Side and another home associated with him on Neilson Avenue on the South...

YOUNGSTOWN — Federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint Thursday in U.S. District Court against Raphael Ortiz, 40, of Wesley Avenue, accusing him of possessing drugs with intent to distribute them and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charges stem from a search warrant executed at Ortiz’s West Side home and two South Side locations Wednesday morning. He was arrested at the time of the searches. During the search of the Wesley Avenue residence, agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mahoning Valley Violent Crimes Task Force and Mahoning Valley Law Enforcement Task...

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