Accused heroin supplier held without bond

YOUNGSTOWN — Just as his detention hearing was to begin this afternoon, a Campbell man charged with supplying heroin to eight other people for distribution in the Youngstown area waived the hearing and consented to be detained without bond.

U.S. Magistrate George J. Limbert then ordered that Jean Carlos Martinez, 31, remain in the custody of U.S. marshals.

Martinez is charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin, two counts of using a telephone to facilitate drug trafficking and one count of heroin distribution.

Martinez is one of 16 people charged in a 119-count federal indictment in an alleged ring that brought the drug here from New York City between January 2012 and Nov. 30 this year. The indictment was unsealed last week.

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