WASHINGTON COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) – Businesses across Southwest Virginia were searched Thursday after an investigation by dozens of agencies into money laundering and drug distribution allegations. A release from the Washington County Virginia Sheriff’s Office states 24 search warrants were executed across nine counties Thursday. “The search warrants are part of an extensive, on-going criminal […]
ABINGDON, Va. (WJHL) – A Marion man has pleaded guilty to trafficking pounds of methamphetamine from Georgia into Southwest Virginia, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). A release from the DOJ states Brian Cory Hoover, 34, pleaded guilty in federal court to “one count of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute […]
A Texas man, who a jury convicted in April of trafficking large quantities of high-purity methamphetamine from Mexico into Southwest Virginia, was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison.