By Associated Press - Thursday, August 6, 2020

ELKINS, W.Va. (AP) - A West Virginia man was sentenced Wednesday to a decade in prison for selling methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell said.

Joseph William Howell Jr., 28, had pleaded guilty to distributing methamphetamine from December 2017 to July 2018 in Randolph County along with other people.

The Beverley man also pleaded to a firearms charge for carrying a gun during the sales, prosecutors said.



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