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Marshall County man sentenced for firearms charge

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

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Roger Dale Bolen, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 63 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Bolen, age 42, pled guilty to one count of “Unlawful Possession of Firearm” in June 2020. Cochran, prohibited from having a firearm because of a prior felony conviction, admitted to having a .380 caliber pistol in August 2019 in Marshall County.

Assistant U.S. Attorney David J. Perri prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Marshall County Drug Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated.

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.

Updated February 18, 2021
Topic
Firearms Offenses
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

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