Randolph County woman sentenced for methamphetamine trafficking

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ELKINS – Pansy Loraine Ray, age 44, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced recently to 36 months in federal prison for methamphetamine trafficking, according to a press release from U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia.

According to court documents and statements made in court, Ray assisted Donald Cantrell, Jr., another defendant in this case, by hiding drugs and drug proceeds. Investigators searched Ray’s home and found 220 grams of methamphetamine, $18,000, and drug paraphernalia.

Ray will serve five years of supervised release following her prison sentence.

Cantrell was sentenced to 188 months in prison on October 2, 2024.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Warner prosecuted the case on behalf of the government. The Mountain Region Drug Task Force investigated. Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Kleeh presided.

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