Convicted Meth Dealer Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

CHARLESTON, W.VA. –  Don Lamont Wilkerson was sentenced yesterday to 240 months in prison. On March 30, 2018, a federal jury found Wilkerson, 44, of Charleston, guilty of three counts of distributing methamphetamine. He has been in federal custody since September 26, 2016.  United States Attorney Stuart commended the investigative work of the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT). 

“An oxycodone dealer turned meth dealer, convicted felon, repeat offender,” said United States Attorney Mike Stuart.  “Wilkerson won’t be dealing any illicit drugs in our communities for a very long time.”

Wilkerson sold a total of five ounces of methamphetamine to a confidential informant on three separate occasions in September 2016. The drug deals took place in retail parking lots in the South Hills and Kanawha City neighborhoods of Charleston.

Wilkerson committed these crimes while he was serving a term of supervised release for his 2010 conviction of distribution of oxycodone. In addition to the sentence for his new criminal convictions, he was sentenced to 24 months in prison for violating the terms of his supervised release. His sentences will run consecutively, for a total of 22 years in prison.

Assistant United States Attorneys Gabriele Wohl and Steven I. Loew handled the prosecution. Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber presided over the hearing. 

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