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West End Recycling and Owner Convicted of Organized Crime

The owner of a scrap metal business has been convicted of engaging in an organized criminal enterprise.

Media outlets report that Monday, 80-year-old William “Bill” Smith entered a Kennedy plea on the charge, while West End Recycling pleaded guilty to five counts of receiving stolen scrap metal. A Kennedy plea allows a conviction without the defendant admitting guilt.

Smith and his recycling business were indicted on 202 counts last year related to receiving stolen scrap metal.

The conviction of engaging in an organized criminal enterprise is the first in the state under a law intended to deter metal thefts.

The indictment says West End Recycling accepted 74,191 pounds of nickel and copper wire worth more than $315,000 over a three-year span.

Smith will be sentenced on June 14. He faces up to 10 years in prison and fines up to $25,000.

Gov. Tomblin's Brother Sentenced for Drug Charges

The brother of West Virginia’s governor has been sentenced to eight months of home confinement and three years of probation for federal drug charges.Fifty-year-old Carl Tomblin of Chapmanville received the sentence Wednesday in federal court in Charleston.
 
Tomblin pleaded guilty in March to distributing the painkiller oxymorphone.
 
Federal prosecutors say Tomblin sold oxymorphone to a confidential police informant on five occasions in December 2013 and January 2014. He also admitted that he bought and distributed oxymorphone for about eight months prior to January 2014.
 
Tomblin is the brother of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.
 
When Carl Tomblin was charged in February, the governor said his brother was dealing with drug addiction and needed help, but must be held accountable for his actions.
 

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