Group Distributed Meth in Roanoke, Lynchburg, Amherst
Roanoke, VIRGINIA -Five members of a Roanoke-based drug conspiracy that distributed methamphetamine in the city and to places as far west as Lynchburg and Amherst, pled guilty yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
Yesterday in District Court, Lewis Cheresnowsky Jr., 35, of Roanoke, Brian Edward Roden, 37, of Roanoke, Joy Lynne Mason, 35, of Evington, Va., and Adam Royal McElvy, 34, of Roanoke, each pled guilty to one count of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Brandi Ann Doss, 35, of Roanoke, pled guilty yesterday to one count of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute a detectable amount of methamphetamine and one count of distributing methamphetamine.
According to evidence presented at yesterday’s guilty plea hearing by Assistant United States Attorney Ashley B. Neese, the conspiracy operated in and around the City of Roanoke from spring 2015 until late 2016. While a majority of the activity involved in the conspiracy was focused in the Roanoke-area, members of the conspiracy did distribute methamphetamine within the Lynchburg and Amherst regions of Virginia during part of the conspiracy.
The investigation of the case was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Roanoke City Police, the Virginia State Police, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Roanoke HIDTA. Assistant United States Attorney Ashley B. Neese prosecuted the case for the United States.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
