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Wheeling man sentenced for cocaine distribution

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

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Deandre L. Davis, of Wheeling, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 84 months incarceration for distributing cocaine, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.

Davis, age 27, pled guilty to one count of “Distribution of Cocaine Base within 1,000 Feet of a Protected Location” in May 2018. Davis admitted to selling cocaine near Riverview Towers in Wheeling in July 2017.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen L. Vogrin prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosives and Firearms and the Ohio Valley Drug & Violent Crimes Task Force, a HITDA-funding initiative, investigated. 
 
Senior U.S. District Judge Frederick P. Stamp, Jr., presided.

Updated August 21, 2018
Topic
Drug Trafficking
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

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