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Tyler County man sentenced for drug charge

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

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Shirl Norman Baker, III, of Paden City, West Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 60 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.

Baker, 42, pleaded guilty in May 2022 to today on one count of “Distribution of 5 Grams or More of Methamphetamine.” Baker admitted to selling methamphetamine in March 2020 in Wetzel County.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Clayton J. Reid prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Marshall County Drug Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated. 

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.

Updated July 7, 2022
Topic
Drug Trafficking
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

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