A Pittsburgh man is on trial for federal drug and money laundering charges.

Paris Carter, 34, is on trial in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh for felony charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams of fentanyl and 100 grams of a fentanyl mixture and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Co-defendant Tamara Carter is charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 400 grams of fentanyl and 100 grams of a fentanyl mixture.

Jury selection began Monday and the trial is scheduled through March 11 before Judge Marilyn J. Horan.

The alleged drug and money laundering offenses took place between January 2017 and February 2018 in Allegheny County.

An affidavit filed by a U.S. Postal inspector claims Paris Carter was a member of the Mohler Place Crips, a violent street gang in the Homewood section of Pittsburgh.

The affidavit alleges he arranged to have packages of fentanyl mailed from China to Pittsburgh.

At the time of his arrest in March 2020, he was serving a 37-month prison for a possession of a firearm charge filed after he was arrested in California, where he once lived, according to the affidavit.

This story was updated at March 5, 2024 to reflect a man named Paris Carter, 34, who is on trial for drug and money laundering charges in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh is not the Paris Carter, 26, facing a homicide charge in Butler County.