Todd Matthew Houston, Firearms Trafficking, West Virginia 2024

Firearms Trafficker Sentenced to 51 Months in Federal Prison

CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Todd Matthew Houston, 36, of Morgantown, West Virginia, has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for conspiring to straw purchase firearms.

According to court documents and statements made in court, officers were called to a home in Morgantown on a domestic violence incident involving Houston and a firearm. Officers later found Houston attempting to pawn more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition at a pawn shop.

The vehicle Houston was driving was searched and officers found a pistol. Investigators determined the firearm had been purchased by someone else for Houston in exchange for heroin.

Houston is prohibited from having firearms because of prior felony convictions that include domestic battery, drug trafficking, robbery, and grand larceny.

Following his prison sentence, Houston will serve three years of supervised release.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Will Rhee prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office investigated.

Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Kleeh presided over the case.

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