CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Cross Lanes woman was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, to three years and four months in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine with her husband, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Sherri Little, 41, previously pleaded guilty in April of 2015 to the federal drug charge. Matthew Little, 38, the husband of Sherri Little, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine in May of 2015.
From early 2014 until December of that same year, Matthew Little admitted that he conspired to distribute methamphetamine with his wife, Sherri Little. Matthew Little further admitted that he and his wife would sell methamphetamine, either from their residence in Cross Lanes or at different locations throughout Cross Lanes. On September 9, 2014, Matthew Little told a confidential informant working with law enforcement to go to his home for a drug deal. Once the confidential informant arrived at the house, Sherri Little called her husband to confirm the details of the drug deal. After the conversation with her husband, Sherri Little sold methamphetamine to the confidential informant. Matthew Little is currently incarcerated, awaiting sentencing on his federal drug conspiracy charge.
The cases against Matthew and Sherri Little were investigated by the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team.
These cases are being prosecuted as part of an ongoing effort led by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia to combat illegal drugs in our communities, including the illicit sale and misuse of prescription drugs and heroin. The U.S. Attorney’s Office, joined by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, is committed to aggressively pursuing and shutting down illegal pill trafficking, eliminating open air drug markets, and curtailing the spread of opiate painkillers and other drugs in communities across the Southern District.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
