Lewisburg man pleads guilty to Federal drug charge

Beckley, W.Va. – United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Lewisburg man pled guilty to a federal drug charge in federal court in Beckley.  Miles Gregory, 41, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and hydrocodone, admitting that on July 2, 2015, he possessed about 25 oxycodone pills and 279 hydrocodone pills in a car he was driving in Lewisburg, and that he intended to distribute the pills.  Law enforcement authorities seized the pills during a search of Gregory’s vehicle.  He faces up to 20 years in prison and a one million dollar fine when he is sentenced on January 28, 2016.

The case was investigated by the Greenbrier Valley Drug and Violent Crime Task Force under the Greenbrier Valley Heroin and Pill Initiative, part of an ongoing effort led by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia to combat the sale and use of heroin and illicit prescription drugs.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office, joined by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, is committed to aggressively pursuing and shutting down drug trafficking, eliminating open air drug markets, and curtailing the spread of heroin and other opiate painkillers in communities across the Southern District.  Assistant United States Attorney John File is handling the prosecution.

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