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Belmont County, Ohio man sentenced for oxycodone distribution

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of West Virginia

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Brent M. Gorshe, 28, of Martins Ferry, Ohio, was sentenced today to 84 months incarceration for distributing oxycodone, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.

Gorshe pled guilty to one count of “Conspiracy to Distribute and to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Oxycodone” in February 2017. The crime took place in Ohio County and elsewhere from 2013 to 2016. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert H. McWilliams, Jr. prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Ohio Valley Drug & Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated. 

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided. 

Updated July 20, 2017
Topic
Drug Trafficking
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

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