ELKINS, W.Va. — An Ohio woman was sentenced Wednesday to more than nine years in prison for illegally possessing a gun and using it to obstruct a U.S. marshal in November 2015.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey sentenced Peggy Chaffin, 38, of Portsmouth, Ohio, to 112 months in connection to a shootout with U.S. marshals and West Virginia State Police in Braxton County.
Chaffin admitted to being a felon in possession of a .22 caliber. She was convicted in August 2013 of felony heroin possession and distribution.
She pleaded guilty in February 2017 to one count of felony in possession of a firearm and a count of assaulting, obstructing or resisting a federal officer.