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Nicholas County Man Sentenced to Prison
From the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of West Virginia
A Nicholas County man was sentenced to 70 months in prison yesterday for federal drug and firearm charges. Jeremy Lee Hanna, 31, of Nettie, West Virginia, pled guilty to the charges on October 29, 2009.
This case arose from an investigation by the Central West Virginia Drug Task Force located in Summersville, West Virginia. On January 23 and 24, 2008, as part of an oxycodone and prescription drug trafficking investigation, the Task Force used an informant to purchase several methadone pills from Hanna at his residence. Hanna was subsequently arrested on May 1, 2009, on a federal warrant. Shortly thereafter, investigators monitoring Hanna's jail telephone calls learned that Hanna had directed a family member to remove firearms from Hanna's residence. On June 25, 2009, investigators executed a search warrant at a residence near Craigsville and recovered eight firearms belonging to Hanna. Hanna was prohibited from possessing a firearm by virtue of his 2003 felony drug trafficking conviction in Nicholas County Circuit Court.
The Central West Virginia Drug Task Force, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division jointly conducted the investigation.
Chief United States District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin presided over the proceedings.
