You might not recognize the name of 29-year-old Jamie Lightfoot Jr., but the Penn Hills man who was sentenced in federal court yesterday most certainly had an impact on the drug business in Indiana County.
Lightfoot was a kingpin in a cocaine and marijuana distribution operation that federal prosecutors say was in “almost every region of Western Pennsylvania” from January of 2015 until authorities busted it up in November of 2017.
Lightfoot was one of 39 people indicted in the investigation. None of them had Indiana County addresses. Prosecutors say the drugs came from Florida, New York, and California, and were repackaged and distributed to other drug dealers across the region. Police seized 52 kilograms of cocaine and heroin, 85 pounds of marijuana, illegal steroids, three firearms, and nearly a million dollars in cash from Lightfoot’s Penns Hills home and a recreational vehicle parked in his driveway on November 5th of 2017.
Lightfoot pleaded guilty in 2019 to single counts of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of five kilograms or more of cocaine, and to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Hornak yesterday sentenced him to eleven years in prison.
