U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia
Recent News About U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia
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Burlin Junior Howell, a 60-year-old resident of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine.
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Lenin Erasmo Luna Mota, a 52-year-old from Hagerstown, Maryland, has admitted to leading a drug trafficking organization in the Eastern Panhandle.
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Nelson Cortes, a 50-year-old man from Beverly, West Virginia, has confessed to participating in the distribution of methamphetamine.
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Todd Matthew Houston, a 36-year-old resident of Morgantown, West Virginia, has received a 51-month federal prison sentence for conspiring to straw purchase firearms.
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Jovonne Haynes, a 30-year-old resident of Detroit, Michigan, has been sentenced to 13 months in federal prison for his involvement in a drug trafficking operation.
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Donaven Eugene Simms, a resident of Hagerstown, Maryland, has admitted to participating in a firearms trafficking operation in Berkeley County, West Virginia.
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A Pittsburgh resident, Queshawn Keand Williams, admitted to distributing p-Fluorofentanyl and fentanyl in a federal court in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
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Apolinar Armando Lopez-Gutierrez, a 38-year-old Mexican national, admitted to reentering the United States illegally after previously being deported in April 2024.
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Daniel Paul Truax, a resident of Weirton, West Virginia, has entered a guilty plea to charges related to the distribution of fentanyl.
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Beverly Ashbaugh, a 51-year-old resident of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to committing wire fraud related to COVID-19 funding.
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Four individuals involved in a drug trafficking organization operating from Philadelphia to Detroit and Morgantown, West Virginia, have been sentenced in federal court.
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Pedro Antonio Pacheco, a resident of Kingwood, West Virginia, has confessed to possessing a firearm illegally, according to court documents.
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Sara L. Jackson, a 48-year-old resident of Keyser, West Virginia, has pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to drug distribution, specifically conspiracy to possess with the intention to sell fentanyl and methamphetamine hydrochloride.
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Jose Alberto Camarena Rocha, a 31-year-old from Mexico, has admitted responsibility in a drug trafficking organization that operated in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
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Two residents of Hagerstown, Maryland, have admitted involvement in a firearms trafficking scheme that spread into Berkeley County, West Virginia.
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Jakob Barnes, a 39-year-old resident of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to unlawfully possessing a firearm.
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Four individuals have been sentenced in connection with a drug trafficking conspiracy in West Virginia's Berkeley, Morgan, and Hampshire Counties.
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Two Assistant United States Attorneys from the Northern District of West Virginia were honored by the Washington-Baltimore HIDTA for their efforts in dismantling a tri-state drug trafficking ring.
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Seven individuals have been sentenced for their involvement in a substantial drug trafficking operation extending from Baltimore to West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.
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Jason T. Scruggs, a 42-year-old resident of Clinton, Michigan, has been sentenced to 108 months in prison for his involvement in the distribution of methamphetamine.