Upshur County man sentenced for more than 10 years for his role in a methamphetamine distribution operation

ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA – Reggie Joe McLain, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 123 months incarceration for distributing methamphetamine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

McLain, age 38, pled guilty to one count of “Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine” in December 2017. McLain admitted to conspiring with others to distribute methamphetamine in Upshur County and elsewhere from March 2016 to September 2017.

McLain was also ordered to forfeit $20,674 seized from his vehicle in October 2016.

The investigation was funded by the federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program (OCDETF). The OCDETF program supplies critical federal funding and coordination that allows federal and state agencies to work together to successfully identify, investigate, and prosecute major interstate and international drug trafficking organizations and other criminal enterprises.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen D. Warner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco and Explosives, The Mountain Region Drug & Violent Crime Task Force, the Greater Harrison Drug &Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, the West Virginia State Police, Upshur County Sheriff’s Office, Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, the Buckhannon Police Department, and the Weston Police Department investigated. 
 
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.