Belmont County man sentenced for drug charge

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – William Tyrone Stovall, of Bridgeport, Ohio, was sentenced today to 100 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.

Stovall, 37, pleaded guilty in January 2022 to one count of “Distribution of Cocaine Base within 1000 feet of a Protected Location.” Stovall admitted to selling cocaine base, also known as “crack,” near Wheeling Central Catholic High School in Ohio County in August 2020.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn M. Adkins prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Ohio Valley Drug Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated.

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.