CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Detroit man was sentenced yesterday to
federal prison on drug and firearm charges, announced United States Attorney
Mike Stuart. Fashawn “Chops” Cannon, 28,
previously entered guilty pleas to distributing Oxycodone and using a firearm
during and in relation to that crime. Cannon admitted that on November 17,
2017, he sold an Oxycodone tablet to a confidential informant in Hernshaw, West
Virginia, and that he carried a Hi-Point, model C9, 9mm pistol when he made
that sale. He was sentenced to a total
of 78 months in prison -- 18 months on the distribution change to be served
consecutively with a sentence of 5 years, or 60 months, on the firearm charge.
U.S. Attorney Stuart commended the cooperative investigative
efforts of several agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and the Kanawha County
Sheriff’s Office.
“The really bad news here is that Detroit drug dealers have
found the small community of Hernshaw,” said United States Attorney Mike
Stuart. “The good news is that Cannon
will be spending quite a while in federal prison. Make no mistake, our focus is district-wide
when it comes to aggressively prosecuting violent, out-of-state drug dealers
that bring their criminal activities into West Virginia.”
Assistant United States Attorney Matt Davis was in charge of
the prosecution. United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. handed
down the sentence.
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