March 5, 2015 3:46 PM

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Federal investigators say they have charged more people in an ongoing investigation of a drug ring that spans across the country.

“I would characterize them as important cogs in a multi-state drug distribution ring,” said US Attorney David Hickton. “They would be the Pittsburgh connection to this organization that has reach far beyond our state.”

Fourteen more people were indicted in a case that brought indictments last October involving the distribution of heroin, crack and cocaine from Los Angeles, Calif. to Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood, often by way of Cleveland, Ohio.

Of the last 14 indictments and arrests, two were still at large Thursday morning: 33-year-old William Blair of New Kensington and 37-year-old James McCray of Pittsburgh.

The federal prosecutor says the whole case, of which these arrests are just a part, has national reach.

read:http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/03/05/14-more-indicted-in-nationwide-drug-ring/

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