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Wheeling man sentenced for cocaine trafficking

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

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Sharod Hodge, 37, of Wheeling, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

Hodge was discovered in possession of cocaine in April 2014 near a public housing authority facility, known as Riverview Towers, in Ohio County, West Virginia. He pled guilty in May 2015 to one count of “Possess Cocaine with Intent to Distribute Near a Protected Location.” 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert McWilliams prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Marshall County Drug and Violent Crime Task Force and the Ohio Valley Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, both HIDTA-funded initiatives, investigated.

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.

Updated January 8, 2016
Topic
Drug Trafficking
Component
USAO - West Virginia, Northern

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