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One year later, the reverberations from the bust of the so-called Lowmaster drug ring continue to rattle through northern Cambria County.
Federal prosecutors last week detailed a charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering against Theresa A. Deckard, 58, of North Church Street in Carrolltown.
According to the indictment, Deckard received proceeds from the Carrolltown-based interstate drug gang that dealt in everything from marijuana and pills to cocaine and psychedelic mushrooms.
Deckard is accused of:
• Sending via Express Mail packages of money to a marijuana supplier in Oregon to buy more pot.
• Exchanging drug proceeds in denominations of $5, $10 and $20 at various financial institutions for $100 bills.
• Buying assets including vehicles and real estate from drug proceeds and registering them in the names of other people.
• Purchasing money orders and prepaid debit cards and using them to buy supplies and fixtures for the renovation of Jerry’s Tavern in Carrolltown. Investigators have said the ring was headed by George M. Lowmaster, and that his father – Gerald C. Lowmaster, the owner of Jerry’s Tavern – was part of the ring.
Deckard is charged with participating in these activities between March 2008 to about May 9, 2011.
More than two dozen people have been rounded up since initial arrests for the ring went down in May 2011 with the arrest of 14.
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