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Doddridge County man sentenced for illegal possession of a firearm

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

CLARSKBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – A Greenwood, West Virginia man was sentenced today to 81 months incarceration for illegal possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.

Thomas Charles Goodwine, 23, pled guilty to one count of “Unlawful Possession of a Firearm” in April 2017. Goodwine, having been convicted of two felonies in Pennsylvania, admitted to having in his possession a 9mm caliber pistol. The crime occurred in January 2016 in Harrison County.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Traci M. Cook prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Greater Harrison County Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated. 
 
Senior U.S. District Judge Irene M. Keeley presided.
 

Updated August 25, 2017
Topic
Firearms Offenses
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

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