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Briefs

Steubenville man sentenced in drug case

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, pleaded 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; the West Virginia State Police; the Marshall County Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force; the Ohio Valley Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force; the Jefferson County Drug and Violent Crimes Task Force; the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department; the Brooke County Sheriff’s Department; the Weirton Police Department; and the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police investigated.

U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.

County issues water boil order

AMSTERDAM — Due to a water line repair, the Jefferson County Water and Sewer District issued a 48 hour water boil order through Thursday morning for the following service areas: state Route 164, Amsterdam, Oakdale Road and Hill and Jackson streets.

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