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New Jersey man sentenced for oxycodone trafficking

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

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Marshall County, West Virginia resident Dennis Ferretti, 37, originally of Gibbstown, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for prescription painkiller trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

Throughout 2014, Ferretti conspired with other individuals to possess and distribute oxycodone in Wetzel and Marshall Counties in West Virginia. He pled guilty in June 2015 to one count of “Drug Conspiracy - Oxycodone.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jarod Douglas prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the West Virginia State Police investigated.

Senior U.S. District Judge Frederick P. Stamp, Jr. presided

Updated January 8, 2016
Topic
Drug Trafficking
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

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