Four Sentenced for Drug Trafficking in the Northern Panhandle

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Four Wheeling, West Virginia residents were sentenced today for selling fentanyl, heroin, and methamphetamine in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey announced.

Tyshaun Johnson, 30, was sentenced to 115 months. Johnson sold fentanyl near Jensen Playground in Wheeling. Investigators also determined Johnson was selling cocaine base in the area. Johnson has prior convictions for fraud, assault, domestic battery, malicious assault, and theft.

Harold Wayne Nice, 42, was sentenced to 60 months today. Nice was responsible for selling more than 30 grams of methamphetamine, along with nearly 2 grams of fentanyl, and one gram of cocaine base. Nice has previously been convicted for domestic battery, destruction of property, assault, breaking and entering, and drug crimes.

Cephus Andrews, 33, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring with others to sell fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine in Ohio County. Andrews, one of nine defendants in a drug conspiracy, allowed his residence to serve as a stash house for the drugs. Investigators seized 7.5 grams of a fentanyl/heroin mixture and 3.35 grams of cocaine, along with drug paraphernalia and $1,095. The other eight defendants are awaiting trial currently scheduled to occur in April 2026.

Alyssa Marie Abrigg, 34, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison. Abrigg sold nearly a gram of fentanyl and half a gram of methamphetamine in the Warwood section of Wheeling. She has prior drug convictions.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Clayton Reid is prosecuting the cases on behalf of the government.

Investigative agencies include the Ohio Valley Drug Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative; the Drug Enforcement Administration; and the Wheeling Police Department.

Fentanyl has been designated by President Donald Trump as a weapon of mass destruction due to its extreme lethality which poses a grave threat to public safety, even in trace amounts. 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. District Judge John Preston Bailey presided.