Belmont County, Ohio man sentenced for oxycodone distribution

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Belmont County, Ohio man sentenced for oxycodone distribution

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on July 20, 2017. It is reproduced in full below.

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Brent M. Gorshe, 28, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, was sentenced today to 84 months incarceration for distributing oxycodone, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.

Gorshe pled guilty to one count of “Conspiracy to Distribute and to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Oxycodone" in February 2017. The crime took place in Ohio County and elsewhere from 2013 to 2016.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert H. McWilliams, Jr. prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Ohio Valley Drug & 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

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