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Morgantown woman sentenced in drug trafficking pipeline

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Another of the 21 people indicted in a multi-state drug trafficking operation is headed to prison.

Loren Delaney, 24, of Morgantown, was sentenced in federal court Thursday after pleading guilty to a single count of aiding and abetting the distribution of oxycodone.

U.S. District Judge Irene M. Keeley ordered Delaney to spend nearly 4 years in prison.

The leader of the so-called pipeline of heroin and opioids from Philadelphia to Morgantown is expected in federal court in Clarksburg Friday for sentencing.

Juwan Robert Woods, 32, of Philadelphia Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to distributing oxycodone within a thousand feet of a protected location. Woods admitted to distributing the drug near Wiles Hill playground in Monongalia County in April.

In November, the US Attorney’s office for the northern district of West Virginia announced a 65-count federal indictment from the heroin and oxycodone trafficking and redistribution drug scheme.

 





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