WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Clarence William Bertram, 24, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court today to 24 months incarceration for crack cocaine distribution, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
Bertram pled guilty to one count of “Distribution of Cocaine Base Within 1,000 Feet of a Protected Location" in November 2016. He admitted to selling crack cocaine near Madison Elementary School in Ohio County, West Virginia.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Ohio Valley Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
