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Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Northern District of West Virginia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, May 21, 2018

Washington, D.C. woman sentenced for her role in a drug distribution operation

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Britney Joyce Robinson, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 41 months incarceration for maintaining a drug house, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Robinson, age 28, pled guilty to one count of “Maintaining a Drug Involved Premises” in September 2017. Robinson admitted to operating a house in Morgantown, West Virginia, to distribute cocaine and oxycodone from the spring of 2016 to March of 2017. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Zelda E. Wesley prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Mon Metro Drug & Violent Crime Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated. 

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

Topic(s): 
Drug Trafficking
Opioids
Component(s): 
USAO - West Virginia, Northern
Updated May 21, 2018