Violation of Federal Drug Laws

PITTSBURGH -- A New Castle man was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison on a conviction of violating federal drug laws. Michael A. Waters, 31, of Blaine Street was accused, along with five other people, of trying to import about 11 pounds of cocaine to the United States. According to federal officials, Waters recruited a number of people to act as drug couriers. The couriers would travel to the Caribbean island nation of Aruba to obtain the cocaine and then tape it to their bodies and return to the United States on commercial airlines, they said. The conspiracy unraveled Nov. 2, 2000, when members of the Aruban National Police Force seized about 8 pounds of cocaine from Waters' couriers, federal officials said.

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