PITTSBURGH -- Federal drug agents and Pittsburgh police rounded up nine people on outstanding warrants after setting up surveillance at a Strip District nightclub.
The warrants were executed Wednesday night, during the Gucci Mane rap concert at Krobar on Smallman Street.
Police said Marzell Turner -- a suspected high-level drug dealer known around the city as "Wu Tang" -- was the subject of the surveillance.
Turner was wanted on federal charges from April 2007, and police said they got a tip that he would be at the club Wednesday.
"We encountered Marzell on foot, and in his possession at that time, he possessed 115 grams of uncut heroin," Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Larry Scirotto said.
Turner was taken into custody, along with eight other people who were wanted on charges including attempted homicide, aggravated assault and drug-related offenses.
Agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the Allegheny County District Attorney's violent crimes task force were involved in the bust.
In 2006, Turner was charged in connection with
a fatal shooting outside the former Dowe's jazz club on Ninth Street downtown. A witness recanted his story, and the charges were dropped before the case went to trial.
Turner was also a homicide suspect in the 2004 shooting of a Wilkinsburg man, The case was sent to trial after a preliminary hearing, but the charge was dropped in 2006 when the district attorney's office decided against going to trial.
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