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Columbus man sentenced for cocaine distribution charge

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

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Jason R. Smoot, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today to 89 months incarceration for selling cocaine near a playground, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Smoot, age 31, pled guilty to one count of “Distribution of Cocaine Base within 1,000 Feet of a Protected Location” in November 2018. Smoot admitted to selling cocaine near the Jensen Playground in Wheeling in June 2017. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven L. Vogrin prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Ohio Valley Drug & Violent Crimes Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated.
 
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.

Updated June 6, 2019
Topic
Drug Trafficking
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

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