A Gallagher, WV man sentenced for distributing oxycodone
February 20th, 2010 - 3:54 am ICT by BNO NewsCHARLESTON, 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.
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