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USAO Press Release on December 13, 2024

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Drake D. Dodson-Williams, 33, of Southgate, Michigan, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Dodson-Williams was the leader of a drug…


USAO Press Release on December 13, 2024

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Victor L. Carpenter, 57, of Mt. Zion, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for the unlawful possession of a firearm.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Carpenter was on state probation for malicious assault…


USAO Press Release on December 13, 2024

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Victor L. Carpenter, 57, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for the unlawful possession of a firearm.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Carpenter was on state probation for malicious assault and…


USAO Press Release on December 12, 2024

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Roger Wayne Legg, 33, of Charleston, was sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on September 20, 2023…


USAO Press Release on December 12, 2024

BECKLEY, W.Va. – Brian K. Trent, 29, of Bradley, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, to being a felon in possession of a firearm.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on September 12, 2023, law enforcement officers responded to a report of a suspicious…


USAO Press Release on December 11, 2024

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Edward Matthew Wiseman, 37, of Belington, West Virginia, was sentenced to 57 months for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

According to statements made in court, Wiseman was selling methamphetamine in Elkins. A search of his home resulted in…


USAO Press Release on December 10, 2024

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Matthew L. Farmer, 33, of Charleston, was sentenced today to two years and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm…


USAO Press Release on December 10, 2024

ASHLAND, Ky. – An Ashland man, Dennis Hall, 49, was sentenced on Monday, to 130 months in prison, by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, for distribution of 50 gram or more of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking…


USAO Press Release on December 9, 2024

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Drew Lamont Scruggs, 48, of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced today to two years and three months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm…


USAO Press Release on December 6, 2024

Louisville, KY – A local man was sentenced this week to 8 years and 3 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm after having previously been convicted of a felony offense.

U.S. Attorney Michael A. Bennett of the Western District of Kentucky, Special Agent in Charge R…


USAO Press Release on December 6, 2024

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Three individuals admitted to their roles in a drug trafficking organization that supplied large amounts of methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine to North Central West Virginia.

Those who entered pleas are:

  • James People, II, 28, of Pennsauken, New…

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