Richard Jasek

Introduction

Richard Jasek, a 43-year-old resident of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 206 months in federal prison — more than 17 years — for cocaine trafficking committed while he was already on federal supervised release for a prior drug conviction . United States District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan imposed the sentence, followed by six years of supervised release, in a prosecution announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania on September 29, 2026 .

Background Information

Jasek is, by the government’s own accounting in the case, a repeat federal drug offender: the sentencing release states that this was his third federal drug trafficking conviction during the last 15 years, and that he was on federal supervised release for a previous conviction when he committed the offenses in this case . The release further notes that he was also on supervised release at the time he engaged in the criminal conduct that led to the second of those convictions — a recidivism pattern that framed the sentencing .

The case was prosecuted in Pittsburgh by Assistant United States Attorney Craig W. Haller, with the investigation credited to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, and the West Mifflin Police Department .

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Convicted and sentenced. Jasek received 206 months in prison for cocaine trafficking while on federal supervised release — his third federal drug trafficking conviction in 15 years.

According to information presented to the court, Jasek engaged in cocaine trafficking between December 2024 and February 2025 . The conduct set out in the release includes possessing with intent to distribute, and distributing, quantities of cocaine on both December 17, 2024, and January 29, 2025, and possessing with intent to distribute cocaine base — crack cocaine — on February 20, 2025 .

All of that took place while Jasek was serving a term of federal supervised release for a previous conviction, which made the new offenses not just a fresh crime but a violation of the court-imposed supervision he was already serving . Supervised release is the court-supervised period that follows a federal prison term, and committing new trafficking offenses during it is treated by sentencing judges as an aggravating breach of the second chance the prior sentence represented.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The sentence — 206 months, or just over 17 years, plus six years of supervised release to follow — was announced by United States Attorney Troy Rivetti’s office for the Western District of Pennsylvania . The release frames the sentence against Jasek’s history: a third federal drug trafficking conviction in 15 years, with the two earlier convictions also involving offenses committed or conduct engaged in while under federal court supervision .

The agencies credited with the investigation — the ATF, the state Attorney General’s office, and the local police department in the Pittsburgh-area borough where he lives — handled a case that moved from street-level trafficking conduct in late 2024 and early 2025 to a federal conviction and a sentence measured in decades rather than years .

Current Status

Jasek’s sentence has been imposed: 206 months in prison, to be followed by six years of supervised release . The conviction and sentence resolve the government’s case as announced on September 29, 2026; the release does not describe any pending charges or appeals, and none are asserted here.

Impact on Their Career/Life

At 43, Jasek will be past 60 by the time the prison term imposed in this case ends, and the six-year supervised release term that follows means he will remain under federal court supervision into his late 60s . The sentencing record now documents three federal drug trafficking convictions in 15 years, two of them involving conduct committed while on supervised release — a history that courts weigh heavily, and that in this case produced a sentence of more than 17 years for conduct spanning barely three months.

Sources

• U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Pennsylvania — “West Mifflin Drug Trafficker Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in Prison for Possessing and Distributing Cocaine While on Federal Supervised Release” source