Pennsylvania man sentenced for methamphetamine charge

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Darren L. Fryson, of Verona, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to three years of probation for distributing methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.

Fryson, age 50, pled guilty in June 2019 to one count of “Conspiracy to Distribute and to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine” in June 2019. Fryson admitted to distributing methamphetamine in Ohio County and elsewhere from March 2018 to April 2019. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Shawn M. Adkins prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Marshall County Drug & Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated. 

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.