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Federal Tipoffs Involving West Virginia Newsletter for Thursday November 14, 2024 ( 5 items )  

Fifth West Virginia Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Violation in Connection With Death of Inmate
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Nov. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: A former corrections officer from the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today for his role in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate, identified by the initials Q.B., on March 1, 2022. Mark Holdren pleaded guilty to conspiring with other officers to violate inmate Q.B.'s civil rights which r  more

Justice Dept.: 5th West Virginia Corrections Officer Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Violation in Connection With Death of Inmate
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: A former corrections officer from the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today for his role in an assault that resulted in the death of an inmate, identified by the initials Q.B., on March 1, 2022. Mark Holdren pleaded guilty to conspiring with other officers to violate inmate Q.B.'s civil rights which resulted in the death of Q.B. According to court documents   more

W.Va. U.S. Attorney: Charleston Man Sentenced to Prison for Federal Opioid Crime
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Nov. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: Curon Cameron Cordon, 24, of Charleston, was sentenced today to two years and three months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of protonitazene and isotonitazene. According to court documents and statements made in court, on May 31, 2023, Cordon sold 13 pills to a confidential informant   more

W.Va. U.S. Attorney: Kanawha County Man Sentenced to Prison for Federal Drug Crime
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Nov. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: Jason Todd Painter, 40, of Clendenin, was sentenced today to five years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute a quantity of methamphetamine. According to court documents and statements made in court, from March 15, 2023 through June 24, 2023, Painter received 11 packages contai  more

W.Va. U.S. Attorney: Lincoln County Man Sentenced to Prison for Federal Drug Crime
CHARLESTON, West Virginia, Nov. 14 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on Nov. 13, 2024: James Evans Hughes, 51, of Sumerco, was sentenced today to nine years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for 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 Ch  more