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WHEELING -- Robert Leon Sullivan of Steubenville was sentenced Tuesday to 46 months in prison for a cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
Sullivan, 56, pled guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine Hydrochloride, Cocaine Base, Heroin, and Fentanyl in August. Sullivan admitted to working with others to distribute cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin and fentanyl in Hancock County and elsewhere from February 2018 to August 2019.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Danae DeMasi-Lemon and Robert H. McWilliams, Jr. prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Drug Enforcement Administration; the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative; the West Virginia State Police; the Marshall County Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative; The Ohio Valley Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative; the Jefferson County, Ohio, Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force; the Hancock County Sheriff's Office; the Brooke County Sheriff's Office; the Weirton Police Department; and the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police investigated.
The investigation was funded by the federal Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program.
U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.