A 22-year-old Pekin man faces federal charges of for a conspiracy to distribute heroin that led to the deaths of three people. Anthony Mansini is charged with distributing more than 1,000 grams of heroin since 2008. The federal indictment says he belonged to a heroin conspiracy that killed three people last year. Pekin Police Chief Greg Nelson says the case is significant: “It’s big for Pekin because we were able to arrest somebody that we could show is responsible for deaths, and since that arrest we have not had any deaths. Herin is back, it’s cheap, it's potent and dengerous.
