(File Photo of a Gavel)Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News(Cleveland, OH) Fifteen people are now facing federal charges after prosecutors confirm that they ran a large-scale drug ring that distributed over 100 pounds of methamphetamine in Pennsylvania and Ohio. According to a statement in a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, the group obtained meth from drug suppliers in Akron, Ohio, and the U.S.-Mexico border before it was sold to people in Pennsylvania, Ohio and other places in the surrounding region. The news release also noted that four homes in Akron were used as stash houses to distribute, process and store the meth. Investigation from law enforcment was a yearlong effort from federal and local agencies and it found drug transactions totaling over 100 pounds of meth. The defendants charged have an age range from 27 to 62 years old and these people received a charge of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine: