Farrell man pleads guilty to fed gun charge

Staff report

PITTSBURGH

A Farrell, Pa., resident has pleaded guilty in federal court to brandishing a gun in relation to drug trafficking.

Jashaad Coleman’s plea agreement calls for a seven-year prison sentence consecutive to the four-to-11-year prison term he’s already serving for a state firearm and robbery conviction.

Coleman, 20, entered his plea earlier this week before Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice B. Cohill, who will sentence him at 2:30 p.m. Sept. 16.

Upon learning that a vehicle containing crack cocaine had been stopped by Southwest Mercer County Regional Police, Coleman went to the scene and fired a 9 mm gun at police July 31, 2012, preventing officers from seizing the vehicle’s two occupants and the cocaine, the U.S. attorney said.

Coleman was charged federally after a Mercer County jury acquitted him in February 2013 of unauthorized gun possession in the same incident, the U.S. attorney’s office added.