Tag: Oxycodone

Man Sentenced in Pain Pill Trafficking Case

A man has been sentenced to 11 years and seven months in prison for a Florida-to-West Virginia pain pill trafficking operation.

Forty-six-year-old William Harrison Meade was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, for his September 2015 guilty plea to conspiring to distribute oxycodone.

Federal prosecutors say Meade conspired with individuals in both states to distribute the drug in 2010 and 2011 and funneled sale proceeds to bank accounts.

One of Meade’s associates, Lester Taylor, of Daytona Beach, Florida, acquired oxycodone pills in Florida and sent them to West Virginia for distribution by Meade. Taylor was sentenced in November to 10 years.

The ex-owner of a Barboursville, West Virginia, pharmacy that filled Taylor’s prescriptions received a five-year prison term for avoiding federal cash reporting requirements.

Man Charged with Possessing Nearly 600 Oxycodone Pills

Federal authorities say a Bridgeport man has been charged with possessing nearly 600 Oxycodone pills.

The U.S. attorney’s office says 26-year-old Suhip E. Ebrahim was arrested Saturday on a charge of possession with intent to distribute Oxycodone.

Officers from the Ohio Valley Drug and Violent Crime Task Force and the Marshall County Drug and Violent Crime Task Force said Ebrahim was arrested in the Wheeling area in possession of the pills and more than $100,000.

Ebrahim made an initial appearance in federal court Saturday before U.S. Magistrate Judge James E. Seibert. He is currently being held without bond. Online court records do not show if he has a lawyer.

Two other defendants were also arrested. They are facing charges in state court.

Kentucky Woman Found With Over 850 Pills, Sentenced

A Kentucky woman has been sentenced after a Huntington police officer found more than 850 pills in her vehicle.

Acting U.S. Attorney Carol Casto says in a news release that 45-year-old Karen Sue Fields of Olive Hill, Kentucky, was sentenced to three years and a month in federal prison Tuesday.

Fields was charged with possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and alprazolam. She pleaded guilty in September.

Authorities say Fields was charged in July 2014 after a traffic stop. A Huntington police officer found more than 800 oxycodone tablets and more than 50 alprazolam tablets in a search of Field’s vehicle.

Authorities say Fields admitted she bought the pills for $17,500 and was on her way back to Kentucky to deliver them to another individual.

W.Va. Senate President's Son Faces Drug Charges

  A federal prosecutor says a 25-year-old son of West Virginia Senate President Jeff Kessler has been indicted in a drug trafficking case.

U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld said Wednesday that a grand jury in Wheeling indicted Jacob Kessler of Glen Dale on nine counts related to oxycodone distribution.

Ihlenfeld says some of the alleged trafficking occurred in Bellaire, Ohio, and near West Virginia Northern Community College in Wheeling.

In a statement, Jeff Kessler says he’s “heartbroken and disappointed” over his son’s arrest and asks for privacy during a difficult time for his family.

Two Enter Pleas in Connection with W.Va. Pain Clinic Overprescribing Case

 A West Virginia mother and son have pleaded guilty in connection with a north-central West Virginia doctor accused of overprescribing painkillers.

Federal prosecutors say 50-year-old Lois Ann Crites and 30-year-old Daniel Quirk of Fairmont entered their pleas on Wednesday.

Crites pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute controlled substances. She says she acted as office manager for Dr. Edita Milan and admitted to phoning in prescriptions to pharmacies for numerous individuals to obtain controlled substances without a valid medical reason. 

Qurik entered a plea of guilty to distribution of oxycodone. He admitted to regularly selling pills that he had received through Milan’s office.

Milan of Fairmont is scheduled for trial later this year on a charge of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

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