Harrison County woman sentenced for methamphetamine distribution

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA –Ashley Wagner, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to for her involvement in methamphetamine distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
 
Wagner, age 28, pled guilty to one count of “Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine” in April 2019. Wagner admitted to working with others to distribute methamphetamine from October 2017 to September 2018 in Harrison County and elsewhere.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Zelda E. Wesley prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Greater Harrison Drug & Violent Crimes Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated. The United States Marshal Service assisted in the arrests.

The investigation was funded in part 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 Thomas S. Kleeh presided.