Michigan woman sentenced for role in a drug distribution operation in Monongalia County

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Michigan woman sentenced for role in a drug distribution operation in Monongalia County

The following press release was published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys on Aug. 28, 2019. It is reproduced in full below.

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Marsawn Daggins, of Southfield, Michigan, was sentenced today to eight months incarceration for her involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Daggins, age 35, pled guilty to one count of “Unlawful Use of Communication Facility." Daggins admitted to using a phone to further a drug distribution operation in April 2018 in Monongalia County.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Zelda E. Wesley prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Mon Metro Drug & Violent Crimes Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated. The United States Marshal Service assisted.

The investigation was funded in part 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 Thomas S. Kleeh presided.

Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys

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