Morgantown man sentenced for role in a drug distribution operation in Monongalia County

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Hamisi Mwawari, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 10 months incarceration for his involvement in a heroin, oxycodone, and cocaine distribution operation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
 
Mwawari, age 45, pled guilty to one count of “Unlawful Use of Communication Facility” in February 2019. Mwawari admitted to using a phone to assist in distributing controlled substances in May 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.