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W.Va. U.S. Attorney: Beckley Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Crime
May 02, 2024
BECKLEY, West Virginia, May 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release on May 1, 2024:

Leon Eugene Smith Jr., 43, of Beckley, pleaded guilty today to distribution of a fentanyl.

According to court documents and statements made in court, on December 15, 2023, Smith sold a controlled substance containing fentanyl to a confidential informant in the Lenark area of Raleigh County. Smith admitted to the tr . . .

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