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Cross Pleads Guilty To Federal Drug Charges

By Staff | Aug 13, 2014

On Aug. 6, the Wetzel County Prosecuting Attorney’s office released information on the federal court case involving Amber J. Cross, 26, of New Martinsville.

Cross entered a plea of guilt on Aug. 5 to a one-count information in the United States District Court For The Northern District of West Virginia before the Honorable Frederick P. Stamp Jr., charging her with conspiracy to deliver oxycodone. The charge is connected to an investigation of prescription pill (Oxycodone) trafficking in the New Martinsville Villas, a taxpayer subsidized housing unit in New Martinsville. That investigation resulted in 29 indictments in Wetzel County Circuit Court in September 2012.

After entering the plea, Cross was released on bond pending a sentencing hearing to be set in the near future. The case was prosecuted in Federal Court by Assistant United States Attorney Robert McWilliams Jr. Cross faces a prison sentence based on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines which is potentially in excess of what she would receive if sentenced under state law.

The Wetzel County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office would like to thank United State’s Attorney William Ihlenfeld for his assistance and cooperation in this case and his commitment to halting the trafficking of prescription pills and other illegal drugs in Wetzel County and the other communities in the Northern District of West Virginia. The office also wants to thank the West Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation for the hundreds of hours that they had in these investigation and their commitment to expanding and continuing them.

“Their efforts have paid off in this community and others throughout West Virginia,” Wetzel County Prosecuting Attorney Timothy Haught remarked.