Steven Andrew Short, Using a Communication Facility to Facilitate a Felony, West Virginia 2015

A Bluefield man is facing up to four years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal drug charge in federal court.

Steven Andrew Short, 29, used a telephone near Rock, West Virginia, to arrange a drug deal with a confidential informant on April 8, 2015. Shortly after the phone call, Short sold hydromorphone to the informant.

Short admitted that he had sold more than 1800 hydromorphone pills over a period of time.

Short faces up to four years in prison when he is sentenced on January 26, 2016.

This case was investigated by the Southern Regional Violent Drug and Violent Crime Task Force under the Bluefield Pill Initiative, 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 prescription drugs.

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 opiate painkillers in communities across the Southern District.

Assistant United States Attorney John File is handling the prosecution.

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