President Trump’s DOJ announced a federal prison sentence in a West Virginia drug case that started with a complaint about a home on Knobley Road.
Lucas Earl Shoemaker, 35, of Keyser, West Virginia, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine.
Federal prosecutors say the case centered on drug trafficking from Shoemaker’s residence.
When investigators searched the home, they found methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, firearms, ammunition, cash, scales, and drug paraphernalia.
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The numbers make the case hard to brush off.
DOJ said investigators seized 231 grams of methamphetamine and 17 grams of fentanyl, along with multiple firearms and ammunition.
The U.S. Department of Justice, Northern District of West Virginia said:
Lucas Earl Shoemaker, 35, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine.
The Mineral County Sheriff’s Office was investigating a complaint about suspected drug trafficking from a home on Knobley Road Keyser, West Virginia.
Shoemaker was reported to be the occupant and was selling fentanyl and methamphetamine.
Officers later encountered Shoemaker at a store in Mineral County and arrested him for having firearms and being prohibited because of prior felonies.
A search warrant was executed on his home and investigators seized 231 grams of methamphetamine, 17 grams of fentanyl, cocaine, multiple firearms and ammunition, cash, scales, and drug paraphernalia.
The Potomac Highlands Drug Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, and the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office investigated.
Fentanyl has been designated by President Donald Trump as a weapon of mass destruction due to its extreme lethality which poses a grave threat to public safety, even in trace amounts.
ADVERTISEMENTThis case is part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime, and repel the invasion of illegal immigration.
That is the Trump DOJ enforcement model in miniature.
Local officers hear about a suspected drug house, task-force investigators build the case, and federal prosecutors make sure fentanyl and firearms bring real consequences.
The fentanyl designation matters because the drug is not ordinary contraband.
Even tiny amounts can kill, and DOJ says President Trump has designated fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction because of that extreme lethality.
This case did not involve a cartel kingpin with a made-for-TV name.
It involved a house in a West Virginia county, a pile of drugs, multiple guns, and a federal sentence.
That is how neighborhoods get cleaned up: one case, one search warrant, one dealer at a time.
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