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Pennsylvania man sentenced for heroin trafficking

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

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Robert Crenshaw, 62, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

Crenshaw distributed heroin in December 2014 near Koupal Towers, a public housing authority facility in Harrison County, West Virginia. He pled guilty in March 2015 to one count of “Distribution of Heroin within 1,000 Feet of a Protected Location.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn Morgan prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Greater Harrison County Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated.

U.S. District Judge Irene M. Keeley presided.

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

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