WHEELING — Melinda Sharon Higgins, of Elkins, was sentenced Friday to 15 months incarceration for drug distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
Higgins, age 40, pled guilty to one count of distribution of hydromorphone in January 2019. Higgins admitted to distributing hydromorphone in Randolph County in April 2018.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen D. Warner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Mountain Region Drug & Violent Crimes Task Force investigated.
The investigation was funded by the federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program (OCDETF). The OCDETF program supplies critical federal funding and coordination that allows federal and state agencies to work together to successfully identify, investigate, and prosecute major interstate and international drug trafficking organizations and other criminal enterprises.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.
