Evelyn Sizemore, Heroin Trafficking, West Virginia 2015

Evelyn Sizemore, 32, of Lewisburg, West Virginia, was sentenced to five years of probation and 100 hours of community service for using a communication device to facilitate the distribution of heroin. Sizemore previously pleaded guilty to the federal drug crime in June of 2015.

According to authorities, Sizemore admitted that on December 9, 2014, she used a telephone in Lewisburg to send a text message to a confidential informant to arrange a drug deal for heroin. Shortly after completing arrangements for the drug deal by text message, Sizemore sold heroin to the confidential informant. Sizemore further admitted that she sold heroin to the confidential informant on other occasions.

The case against Sizemore was investigated by the Greenbrier Valley Regional Drug and Violent Crime Task Force. Assistant United States Attorney John L. File is in charge of the prosecution. United States District Judge Irene C. Berger imposed the sentence.

This case was prosecuted as part of the Greenbrier Valley Heroin and Pill Initiative, 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 prescription drugs and heroin.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office, joined by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, is committed to aggressively pursuing and shutting down illegal pill trafficking, eliminating open air drug markets, and curtailing the spread of pills and heroin in communities across the Southern District.

Meanwhile, in a separate case, Patricia Alfieri, 55, of Schenectady, New York, was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for escaping from the Federal Prison Camp at Alderson. Alfieri previously pleaded guilty in August of 2015, admitting that she left the prison without authorization on June 18, 2015. Her new sentence will run consecutively to the sentence of three years and five months she is serving for a conviction in federal court in the Northern District of New York for mail fraud and subscribing a false tax return.

The Alfieri case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the United States Marshals Service, the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Department, and the Lewisburg Police Department. Assistant United States Attorney John L. File is also in charge of the Alfieri prosecution.

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