One of 11 people arrested in a roundup of drug dealers that was called "Operation 93 Pipeline" was placed in a special state program on Tuesday in Carbon County court.

Curtis Lee Margle, 26, of Carbon County was placed in the state Intermediate Punishment program for two years by Judge Steven R. Serfass. Serfass also ruled after completing the program Margle will be on probation for five years.The state IPP is for people who are addicted to controlled substances. The first seven months is spent in a state prison followed by inpatient treatment in a drug rehabilitation program then time spent in a halfway house. If a person does not successfully complete the program then he would be brought back before the sentencing judge to be resentenced with no credit for the time spent in the program. Margle has been in prison for about a year since his arrest in the drug roundup.At the time of his arrest Margle was listed by authorities as a street-level dealer who received his drugs from another person arrested in the roundup.At the time of the arrests District Attorney Jean A. Engler said the operation was named after Route 93 that runs from the Luzerne County through Carbon County. She said drug traffickers were bringing heroin from Luzerne County into Carbon County via Route 93.Engler said 150,000 bags of heroin was distributed by the 11 during the period of December 2014 to March 2015 and was the biggest operation that Engler could remember while working in the DA's office. She estimated $1.5 million worth of heroin was transported in the four-month period.At the time Engler said the arrests were the result of a joint investigation with the state Attorney General's office, the county drug force, county detectives, state police and state police K-9 units, along with local police including Nesquehoning, Jim Thorpe, Lehighton, Lansford, East Penn and Mahoning townships, and the county adult probation department.The arrests were also the cumulation of months of investigative work by the various agencies, and she praised the cooperation between all the agencies involved.Margle was also ordered to supply a DNA sample and pay court costs of about $1,000.