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Ohio man sentenced to nearly 11 years for cocaine trafficking

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

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Michael M. Stewart, 35, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced today to 130 months in prison for cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

Throughout 2014 and 2015, Stewart conspired with other individuals to possess and distribute cocaine in Marshall County, West Virginia. He pled guilty in September 2015 to one count of “Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute and to Distribute Cocaine Base.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert McWilliams prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Marshall County Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, 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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