Don Lamont Wilkerson, Methamphetamine Distribution, West Virginia 2018

CHARLESTON, W.VA. - A federal jury has found Don Lamont Wilkerson, 44, of Charleston, guilty of three counts of distributing methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.

The guilty verdict was handed down following a three-day jury trial. Wilkerson was convicted of selling a total of five ounces of methamphetamine to a confidential informant on three separate occasions in September 2016. The drug deals took place in retail parking lots in the South Hills and Kanawha City neighborhoods of Charleston.

A forensic chemist testified that the drugs recovered were in fact methamphetamine with a purity level of at least 95%. Witnesses for the United States testified that the defendant sold the methamphetamine in three separate transactions in the Charleston area.

Wilkerson, who has a prior felony drug conviction, faces a mandatory minimum of twenty years and up to life in federal prison when he is sentenced on August 7, 2018.

Assistant United States Attorneys Gabriele Wohl and Steven I. Loew are in charge of the prosecution and tried the case before a federal jury. Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber presided over the trial.

The case is being prosecuted as part of an ongoing effort led by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia to combat the illicit sale and misuse of illegal drugs, including methamphetamine.

United States Attorney Mike Stuart commended the investigative work of the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT) in the case against Wilkerson.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdwv/pr/federal-jury-finds-charleston-meth-dealer-guilty-drug-crimes