Elkins man sentenced for methamphetamine distribution

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Oscar Willard Thomas, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration for methamphetamine distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Thomas, also known as “Will Thomas,” age 46, pled guilty to one count of “Distribution of Methamphetamine” in November 2018. Thomas admitted to selling methamphetamine in September 2016 in Randolph County.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen D. Warner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Mountain Region Drug and Violent Crime Drug Task Force investigated.

The investigation was funded by the federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program (OCDETF). The OCDETF program supplies critical federal funding and coordination that allows federal and state agencies to work together to successfully identify, investigate, and prosecute major interstate and international drug trafficking organizations and other criminal enterprises.

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.