A man accused of trafficking heroin in Blair County now faces homicide charges in Pittsburgh.

Louis “Smooth” Campbell, 27, of Swissvale, was arrested April 6 by Altoona police and had been held in the Blair County Prison while awaiting trial on four felony heroin cases. On Jan. 8, Campbell posted bail, which had been reduced by a Blair County judge, and was released from jail.

According to Pittsburgh police, detectives arrested Campbell about 4 p.m. Thursday in connection with the murder of 30-year-old Albert Boxley, who was found dead in the street on Saturday at Mullins and Dickson streets in the city’s Marshall-Shade­land neighborhood.

Police indicated Satur­day that Boxley, who was from the Home­­wood South neighborhood, was shot multiple times.

Campbell is also accused of selling carfentinil-laced heroin to a police informant several times while staying in an Altoona motel in early April. Altoona police took Campbell into custody April 6 after one of the alleged sales and a subsequent search of his Motel 6 room allegedly turned up 546 packets of heroin.

Blair County prosecutors indicated this week that they had only recently received lab test results from the heroin seized from Campbell and that carfentanil, which is 100 times stronger than fentanyl, was present in the packets.

Bail for his four Blair County drug cases was originally set at a total of $170,000 cash, but in July his bail was reduced to 10 percent of $30,000 on each of the four cases.

Online court records indicate Blair County Judge Wade Kagarise presided over the bail modification proceedings. Campbell had to put up a total of $12,000 to be released, which he did through a bail bondsman on Jan. 8.

Because bail is automatically denied for homicide cases, Campbell will remain in Allegheny County Jail until his preliminary hearing, which is slated for Feb. 2.

Mirror Staff Writer Greg Bock is at 946-7458.