Charleston Convicted Murderer Sentenced For Federal Drug Crime
Friday, April 4, 2025, 12:00 P.M. ET. 1 Minute Read, By Art Fletcher: Englebrook Independent News,
CHARLESTON, W.VA.- On Wednesday, a 37-year-old Charleston, West Virginia, man, who is a previously convicted murderer, learned he would be spending nearly the next three and a half years in federal prison after being sentenced for selling fentanyl to a confidential informant in April of 2022.
On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, Charles Eugene Moore, 37, of Charleston, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph R. Goodwin to 41 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to Distribution of a Controlled Substance, Fentanyl.
According To Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa G. Johnston
According to Acting U.S. Attorney Lisa G. Johnston and charging documents filed with the District Court, on April 22, 2022, during a narcotics investigation, Moore sold around 28 grams of a substance containing fentanyl and caffeine to a confidential informant in Charleston, West Virginia…