1Uber ride ends in drug bust as man caught selling 430 bags of heroin in undercover sting

NORTH HUNTINGDON, PA — A Braddock man was busted with more than 400 stamp bags of suspected heroin and fentanyl after arriving in an Uber to meet an undercover officer for a planned $1,800 drug deal, police said.

Yusuf Tinsley-Ewell, 29, was arrested Monday in a coordinated sting operation involving the Westmoreland County Drug Task Force, Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office, and North Huntingdon Township Police. Investigators say the deal was part of an ongoing narcotics investigation targeting opioid trafficking in the area.

The undercover officer had arranged with Tinsley-Ewell to purchase 10 bricks of heroin/fentanyl — roughly 430 stamp bags — for $1,800, according to police. The meeting po

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