Tag: Martinsburg
Juan Carlos Suarez-Lugo, Fentanyl and Cocaine Trafficking, West Virginia 2025
⏱ 3 min read Juan Carlos Suarez-Lugo, a 55-year-old Martinsburg, West Virginia resident, led a large-scale fentanyl and cocaine trafficking operation with ties to the notorious Sinaloa Drug Cartel in Mexico. The operation, which imported drugs from Puerto Rico and Mexico, was run out of an autobody shop in Martinsburg. Suarez-Lugo and his cohorts used…
Amanda Gorham, Wire Fraud, West Virginia 2026
⏱ 2 min read Amanda Gorham, a 34-year-old tax preparer from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for running a financial fraud scheme in Berkeley County. Gorham, who worked as a tax preparer in Martinsburg and as an insurance agent, used her clients’ identifying information to open insurance policies…
Samuel Rose, Cocaine Distribution, West Virginia 2024
⏱ 3 min read A notorious cocaine smuggler, once on the run as one of America’s Most Wanted, has got his punishment. Samuel Rose, 53, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was slapped with a 190-month sentence for his role in a massive multi-state drug trafficking operation. Rose, who was caught and featured on the hit TV…
Malachi Younger, Fentanyl Trafficking, West Virginia 2024
⏱ 2 min read A 23-year-old Maryland man is behind bars after pleading guilty to a West Virginia drug trafficking conspiracy involving fentanyl, cocaine, and oxycodone. Malachi Younger was involved in a large-scale operation that funneled illicit substances into Berkeley County. On March 28, 2024, law enforcement seized a stolen Jeep operated by Younger, which…
David Reyes, Fentanyl Trafficking, West Virginia 2023
⏱ 3 min read David Reyes, 61, of Hagerstown, Maryland, admitted today to being a key cog in a major drug pipeline that saturated Berkeley and Jefferson Counties in West Virginia with fentanyl, cocaine, and heroin. The operation, run out of an autobody shop in Martinsburg, wasn’t some nickel-and-dime operation – it reached directly back…
