Wetzel County man sentenced for firearms violations

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Joseph Harrison, of Pine Grove, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 34 months incarceration for a firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Harrison, age 49, pled guilty to one count of “Unlawful Possession of a Firearm” and one count of “Possession of a Firearm with an Obliterated Serial Number” in November 2019. Harrison, who is not permitted to have a firearm because of a prior convictions, admitted to having a .45 caliber pistol with an obliterated serial number and ammunition in June 2019 in Wetzel County. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney David J. Perri prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Wetzel County Sheriff’s Office investigated. 

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.