'Lake Effect' defendant is sentenced to 72 months in prison

'Operation Lake Effect' suspect sentenced

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WKBN) - A Pennsylvania man caught up in a federal drug investigation has been sentenced. Keith Hurst, of Tarentum, was sentenced to six years in prison for cocaine trafficking. Hurst was one of several people in Pennsylvania and Ohio caught up in the drug investigation called "Operation Lake Effect." According to investigators, Hurst conspired from August 2022 to March 2023 to traffic cocaine in the Western District of Pennsylvan…

'Lake Effect' defendant is sentenced to 72 months in prison

A man with New Kensington and Tarentum ties is sentenced to prison time for his role in drug activity found out through "Operation Lake Effect."

On Thursday, April 3, 2025, a 23-year-old man was tried in an immediate appearance before the Carcassonne court, to answer for an escape, for a recidivism of refusal to comply, for an unlawful use of astounding...