WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jesse N. Perez, of Parkersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 30 months incarceration for a drug distribution charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
Perez, age 36, pled guilty to one count of “Conspiracy to Distribute and to Possess With the Intent to Distribute Controlled Substances" in February 2019. Perez admitted to distributing methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and cocaine base in Wetzel County, as well as the Southern District of West Virginia, Ohio, and Georgia from 2016 to April 2018.
Perez was also ordered to forfeit $2,000 in cash.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert H. McWilliams, Jr. prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Marshall County Drug & Violent Crimes Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated.
The investigation was funded by the federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program (OCDETF). The OCDETF program supplies critical federal funding and coordination that allows federal and state agencies to work together to successfully identify, investigate, and prosecute major interstate and international drug trafficking organizations and other criminal enterprises.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
