Wheeling Man Sentenced for Selling Drugs in Public Housing

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – A Wheeling, West Virginia man was sentenced to a decade in prison for trafficking drugs from a public housing apartment, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey.

Roger Lee Williams, Jr., 32, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison. Following a few sales of cocaine to a confidential informant, investigators executed a search warrant at the Booker T. Apartments where Williams lived. Officers seized cocaine and methamphetamine and found $3,040 from Williams. Williams has a criminal history that includes domestic violence, drug trafficking, larceny, obstruction, and fleeing.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Clayton Reid prosecuted the case on behalf of the government.

The Ohio Valley Drug Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative; the Drug Enforcement Administration; and the Ohio County Sheriff’s Office investigated.

This case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime, and repel the invasion of illegal immigration.

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.