CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced to federal prison for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Harold Lee Battle was sentenced to 48 months in prison for distribution of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Battle’s federal sentence will run consecutive to the state sentence he is currently serving for malicious wounding.
“Another meth dealer is going to federal prison," said United States Attorney Mike Stuart. “Week after week, we are convicting more meth dealers and ultimately putting them behind bars."
On Oct. 31, 2017, detectives with the Charleston Police Department’s Special Enforcement Unit arrested Battle for distributing 60 grams of methamphetamine to a person cooperating with law enforcement on Charleston’s East End.
The Charleston Police Department’s Special Enforcement Unit conducted the investigation. Senior United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. presided over the hearing. Assistant United States Attorney Ryan A. Saunders is handling the prosecution.
This case is being prosecuted as part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) program, the centerpiece of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction efforts. PSN is an evidence-based program proven to be effective at reducing violent crime. Through PSN, a broad spectrum of stakeholders work together to identify the most pressing violent crime problems in the community and develop comprehensive solutions to address them. As part of this strategy, PSN focuses enforcement efforts on the most violent offenders and partners with locally based prevention and reentry programs for lasting reductions in crime.
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Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
