Pittsburgh Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Heroin

PITTSBURGH – Kevin Livsey, of Pittsburgh, pled guilty to heroin trafficking charges, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

Livsey, 28, pled guilty to distributing heroin on June 24, 2014, and again on July 3, 2014. As of those dates, Livsey had already been convicted of drug trafficking in a case prosecuted in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. United States District Court Judge Nora Barry Fischer scheduled sentencing to occur on Jan. 22, 2016, at 9 a.m.

The law provides for a maximum total sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed would be based upon the seriousness of the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.

Assistant United States Attorney Craig W. Haller is prosecuting this case on behalf of the United States.

The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Pittsburgh Police led the multi-agency investigation of this case that also included the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Department of Homeland Security/Homeland Security Investigations, the United States Marshals Service, the Pennsylvania State Police, the Scott Township Police Department, the Munhall Police Department, the Baldwin Police Department, and the Pleasant Hills Police Department. The investigation was funded by the federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program (OCDETF). The OCDETF program supplies critical federal funding and coordination that allows federal and state agencies to work together to successfully identify, investigate, and prosecute major interstate and international drug trafficking organizations and other criminal enterprises.