MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA –Karl Justin Dunn, III, of
Kearneysville, West Virginia, has admitted to distributing heroin, U.S.
Attorney Bill Powell announced.
Dunn, age 32, pled guilty to one count of “Distribution of
Heroin.” Dunn admitted to selling heroin in July 2018 in Berkeley County.
Dunn faces up to 20 years incarceration and a fine of up to
$1,000,000. Under the Federal Sentencing
Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed will be based upon the seriousness of
the offenses and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.
This charge is the result of investigations supported by the
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) under the Attorney
General-led Synthetic Opioid Surge (SOS)/Special Operations Division (SOD)
Project Clean Sweep. This initiative
seeks to reduce the supply of synthetic opioids in “hot spot” areas previously
identified by the Attorney General of the United States, thereby reducing drug
overdoses and drug overdose deaths, and identify wholesale distribution
networks and sources of supply operating nationally and internationally.
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney C. Lydia Lehman, also with
the Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, is prosecuting the case on
behalf of the government. The Eastern Panhandle Drug & Violent Crimes Task
Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated.
The investigation was funded by the federal Organized Crime
Drug Enforcement Task Force Program (OCDETF). The OCDETF program supplies
critical federal funding and coordination that allows federal and state
agencies to work together to successfully identify, investigate, and prosecute
major interstate and international drug trafficking organizations and other
criminal enterprises.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert W. Trumble presided.
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