Repeat Drug Offender Receives Federal Prison Sentence for Methamphetamine Sales in Wheeling

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – A Dayton, Ohio man will spend the next X in prison for selling methamphetamine in Wheeling, West Virginia, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey. 

Darryl C. Durant, also known as “Baby Brah,” age 44, was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine. Durant sold methamphetamine to a confidential informant on Wheeling Island on several occasions. Durant has several prior drug convictions.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Clayton Reid prosecuted the case on behalf of the government.

The Ohio Valley Drug Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative, investigated.

This case is part of Operation Take Back America a nationwide initiative that marshals the full resources of the Department of Justice to achieve the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), protect our communities from the perpetrators of violent crime, and repel the invasion of illegal immigration.

U.S. Judge John Preston Bailey presided.

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