Michigan Man Sentenced on Drug Charge in Federal Court in Beckley

BECKLEY, W.Va. – United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Michigan man was sentenced to prison on drug charges in federal court in Beckley.  Tremaine Dean Pool Jr., 23, of Romulus, a suburb of Detroit, was sentenced to 40 months in prison.  Stuart praised the work of the Greenbrier Valley Drug and Violent Crime Task Force.

“I commend the law enforcement agencies in Greenbrier County for working together to rid their streets of violent pill dealers,” said United States Attorney Mike Stuart.  “Communities throughout southern West Virginia have been ravaged by opiate abuse and addiction and we are more committed than ever to putting an end to this epidemic.”

Pool pled guilty in January, admitting that on December 2, 2016, law enforcement authorities found a loaded 9mm handgun and a bag containing 68 40 mg oxymorphone pills close to him when they searched a residence in Lewisburg.  Pool admitted that he possessed the pain pills with intent to distribute them and also possessed the gun.  He further admitted that he worked with his codefendants, Joshua Adam Smith and Jessica Nicole Honaker, to distribute pain pills in Greenbrier County during November and December 2016, and that they distributed or possessed with the intent to distribute about 300 40 mg oxymorphone pills during that time.  Smith received 96 months for his part in this drug activity, and Honaker was sentenced to 24 months.

United States District Judge Irene C. Berger imposed the sentence.  The case was investigated as part of the Greenbrier Valley Heroin and Pill Initiative.  That initiative is part of an ongoing effort led by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia, joined by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, to combat illegal drug trafficking in communities across the Southern District.  Assistant United States Attorney John File prosecuted the case.

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