WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Ivan Burt, of Bridgeport, Ohio, was sentenced today to 27 months incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
Burt, age 39, pled guilty to one count of “Aiding and Abetting the Distribution of Cocaine Base" in June 2018. Burt admitted to selling crack cocaine near Madison Elementary School on Sept. 22, 2016 in Ohio County.
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, investigated.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
