CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA (BNO NEWS) – A Kanawha County, West Virginia man was sentenced to two years in prison for distributing prescription pills, prosecutors announced on Friday.

Christopher Holley, 24, of Gallagher, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in November 2009 of distributing oxycodone in the Paint Creek area of Kanawha County. For six months, Holley received oxycodone pills from Detroit, Michigan, and distributed them to users in Paint Creek.

Holley worked for his father, James Robert Holley, the leader of the distribution ring. Nehmiah Lujoh Allen-Griggs and Terrance Haliburton of Detroit, Michigan, as well as Charles Coiner, George Breckenridge, and James Robert Holley of the Paint Creek, West Virginia, have already been sentenced for their roles in the operation. Their sentences were established from ten years to four years of incarceration.

Over a seven-year period, the group distributed thousands of Oxycontin pills, approximately 1810 grams.

HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA (BNO NEWS) – A drug dealer of Huntington, West Virginia was sentenced to 70 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and for being a felon in possession of a gun, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Roderick Devine McNeal, 26, pleaded guilty last November after being arrested at a Huntington restaurant by investigators. He was in possession of a quantity of oxycontin, $5,791 in cash and a 9mm pistol. He was prohibited to carry guns after a previous conviction in Utah in 2005. One hundred oxycontin pills were found in a later search of McNeal’s home.

McNeal was on the spotlight after selling cocaine base and oxycodone to informants working with authorities from a join investigation conducted by the Huntington Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA (BNO NEWS) – A man was sentenced on Monday for distributing crack cocaine in Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S. Attorney Betsy Jividen announced.

Robert Fleming, 23, an Ohio resident was sentenced to 121 months imprisonment followed by six years of supervised release.

Fleming pleaded guilty on November 10, 2009, to one count of distribution of crack cocaine within 1,000 feet of Riverview Towers in Wheeling, West Virginia. He admitted distributing between 100 and 150 grams in the period from late 2008 to the summer of 2009.

This case is the result of a five-month investigation by out-of-state groups from the Cleveland and Detroit areas.

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA (BNO NEWS) — A Valley Grove, West Virginia man was convicted on several counts related to the possession of child pornography on Friday, prosecutors said.

Gary Ray DeBolt, 47, was convicted by a federal trial jury before Judge Frederick Stamp, Jr. in the U.S. District Court in Wheeling, and was found guilty of all counts of a seven-count superseding indictment. The trial lasted only three days.

DeBolt was convicted of five counts of receipt of child pornography via the Internet in December 2008 and January 2009. He was also found guilty on two counts of possession of child pornography from October 2008 to January 2009.

DeBolt is currently free on bond and will face a detention hearing on February 8, 2010 before Judge Stamp. He faces a penalty of 5 to 20 years imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 on each of the receipt of child pornography charges. He also faces a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment and a fine of $250,000 on each of the possession of child pornography charges.

“We are very happy with the work of the West Virginia State Police and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force because our children are our future and protecting them is one of the priorities of our office and the Task Force,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Jividen.

The case against DeBolt was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David Perri, and was investigated by the West Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which is headed-up and organized by the West Virginia State Police.

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA (BNO NEWS) – A West Virginia doctor on Wednesday pled guilty for his role in allowing others to use his DEA registration number to illegally dispense a diet drug.

Brian J. McDevitt, a doctor of osteopathy with practices all over the state of West Virginia pled guilty to two charges, one conspiracy to allow others to illegally use his DEA registration number to dispense Phentermine and to money laundering.

According to court documents, McDevitt allowed at least four of his employees to utilize his DEA registration number to dispense Phentermine in his various offices. Employees, without legal authority, would dispense the diet pills to patients when McDevitt was not present. The investigation revealed that McDevitt obtained approximately 1.5 million pills during a five-year period.

McDevitt, who is scheduled to be sentenced on May 12, faces up to 14 years in prison and a $500,000 fine.

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA (BNO NEWS) – A Boyerstown, Pennsylvania man on Tuesday pleaded guilty to transmitting obscene material to a minor, prosecutors said.

Anthony S. Greenleaf, 30, entered a guilty plea to one count of transmitting obscene material to a minor via computer from Pennsylvania to the Northern District of West Virginia.

Greenleaf, who is free on bond pending sentencing, faces a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment and a fine of $250,000.

The case was investigated by the West Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, which is headed-up and organized by the West Virginia State Police.

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA (BNO NEWS) – A Wheeling, West Virginia resident was sentenced on Monday for making false bomb threats against a post office, prosecutors said.

Charles W. Beever, 44, was sentenced to four months in jail followed by two years of supervised release, said Betsey Jividen, the Acting United States Attorney for the US Attorney’s office in the Northern District of West Virginia.

Beever plead guilty on October 27 to one count of voicing a bomb threat by stating false information concerning an alleged attempt to damage or destroy the main Wheeling post office with a bomb on May 24.

The case, prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney David J. Perri, was investigated by the United States Postal Inspection Service.

Beever is now free on bond but will self report to the designated Federal institution on January 28, 2010.