Monongalia County woman sentenced for role in a drug distribution operation in Monongalia County

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Haley Hunt, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 24 months incarceration for her involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
 
Hunt, age 27, pled guilty to one count of “Unlawful Use of Communication Facility” in February 2019. Hunt admitted to using a phone to help distribute a controlled substance in April 2018 in Monongalia County.

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

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.