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Harrison County man sentenced for drug possession

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

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Eric Scott Barker, of Mount Clare, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months incarceration for drug possession, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.

Barker, age 37, pled guilty to one count of “Attempted Possession with Intent to Distribute Para-Fluorofentanyl” in June 2017. The crime took place in Doddridge County on September 15, 2016.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Cogar prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The United States Postal Inspection Service, the West Virginia State Police, and the Greater Harrison Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated. 
 
Senior U.S. District Judge Irene M. Keeley presided.
 

Updated August 29, 2017
Topic
Drug Trafficking
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

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