WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Donald Ray Pyle, 44, of Bridgeport, Ohio, was sentenced today to five months incarceration for illegally transferring and selling a gun across state lines, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
Pyle admitted to transferring, selling and delivering a.22 caliber revolver to an individual in Ohio County, West Virginia on May 23, 2016.
Pyle pled guilty to one count of “Interstate Transfer of a Firearm" in February 2017.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David J. Perri prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Ohio Valley Drug & Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives investigated.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
