Robert Earl Cureton Jr., a 40-year-old resident of Detroit, Michigan, has pleaded guilty to distributing methamphetamine. The plea was entered in Huntington, West Virginia.

Court documents reveal that on January 12, 2024, Cureton sold about 54 grams of methamphetamine to a confidential informant on the 2400 block of Collis Avenue in Huntington. He admitted to arranging and executing the transaction with the informant.

Cureton also confessed to selling approximately 18.6 grams of fentanyl for $1,300 on November 9, 2023, and around 55 grams of methamphetamine for $380 on December 7, 2023. Both sales were made to a confidential informant at the same location.

On November 26, 2024, Cureton traveled from Michigan to Cincinnati by Greyhound bus and then used a rideshare service to reach Huntington. During this journey, he carried a suitcase containing roughly 5.08 kilograms of methamphetamine. Law enforcement stopped the rideshare vehicle in which Cureton was traveling in the 900 block of 7th Avenue in Huntington and arrested him based on an outstanding warrant related to these offenses. Officers seized both the suitcase with methamphetamine and $4,566 found on Cureton's person. He acknowledged that this money was from drug sales.

Cureton is set for sentencing on May 12, 2025. He could face up to 20 years in prison along with at least three years of supervised release and a fine reaching $1 million.

United States Attorney Will Thompson announced the guilty plea while praising the efforts of both the Huntington Police Department and the Huntington Violent Crime and Drug Task Force.

The hearing was overseen by United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers with Assistant United States Attorney Courtney L. Finney prosecuting.

Further details can be accessed through court documents available via PACER under Case No. 3:24-cr-117 or through the U.S. Attorney’s Office website for the Southern District of West Virginia.