Randolph County man sentenced for drug distribution

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Randolph County man sentenced for drug distribution

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on July 30, 2019. It is reproduced in full below.

ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jeffrey Lynn Woods, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 121 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Woods, age 58, pled guilty to one count of “Conspiracy to Distribute More than 5 Grams of Methamphetamine" in January 2019. He admitted to conspiring with others to distribute more than five grams of methamphetamine, also known as “crystal" and “ice," from the fall of 2016 to July 2018 in Randolph County.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen D. Warner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Mountain Region Drug & Violent Crimes Task Force; and the Elkins Police Department 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

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