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Cleveland man sentenced for drug charge

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

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Anthony L. Jackson, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Jackson, also known as “Rob,” age 32, pled guilty to one count of “Possession with Intent to Distribute Heroin and Fentanyl” in March 2020. Jackson admitted to having heroin and fentanyl in August 2017 in Hancock County.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn M. Adkins prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug & Violent Crimes Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated.

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.

Updated June 16, 2020
Topics
Drug Trafficking
Opioids
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

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