MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Austin M. Ferguson, age 28, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for the distribution of fentanyl and possession of a firearm in connection with a drug trafficking crime. According to court documents and statements made in court, Ferguson was selling heroin capsules when he flashed a 9mm pistol, removed  more

MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Javier Lewis Howard, age 41, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for the distribution of cocaine. According to court documents and statements made in court, during a traffic stop, officers found heroin, prescription pills, and $3,774 inside Howard's vehicle.  more

MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Malachi Michael George, age 20, of Cumberland, Maryland, was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for trafficking firearms. According to court documents and statements made in court, the investigation began with a shots-fired incident in Maryland, leading officers to several firearms traced to Quinton Baker. Baker purchased the firearms   more

MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Kenneth Carey Markley, age 45, of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for a firearms conspiracy. According to court documents and statements made in court, Markley worked with others to illegally purchase and sell firearms in West Virginia and Maryland. Markley, who's prohibited from having firearms becaus  more

WHEELING, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Nolan Eugene McCray, age 39, of Cedar Lane, Texas, has admitted to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, McCray was identified during an investigation into drug activity. A Wetzel County property where McCray had stayed was searched and officers found methamphetamine and $14,5  more

MARTINSBURG, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: Two Eastern Panhandle residents were sentenced today for drug trafficking. Kimberely Sue Smith, age 54, of Falling Waters, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute crystal methamphetamine, fentanyl, and cocaine base. According to court documents and state  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: James Evans Hughes, 51, of Sumerco, pleaded guilty today to distribution of methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, on June 28, 2018, Hughes sold a quantity of methamphetamine to a confidential informant in the South Charleston area of Kanawha County. Hughes admitted to that transaction and furth  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on March 5, 2024: Denise R. Allen, 29, of Bluefield, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, on August 16, 2023, Allen and another individual were apprehended at a gun store in Princeton, West Virginia. Following their arrest, Allen and the   more