Roanoke, VIRGINIA – A pair of defendants who were part of a conspiracy that brought large amounts of heroin into the Roanoke region, were sentenced recently in separated hearings in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
Today in District Court, Kelly Marie Combs, 28, of Salem, Va., who previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute heroin, was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison.
Last week, Hameen Shahid Irvin, 41, of Roanoke, Va., who previously pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, was sentenced last week to 90 months in federal prison.
According to evidence presented at previous hearings by Assistant United States Attorneys Ashley B. Neese and Jennie L. M. Waering, Irvin and Combs, along with their co-conspirators, were responsible for trafficking large amounts of heroin into the Roanoke region from Baltimore, M.D. Combs and Irvin regularly drove to Baltimore to buy heroin and returned to Roanoke with the drug for redistribution.
The investigation of the case was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Roanoke County Police Department and the Virginia State Police. Assistant United States Attorneys Ashley B. Neese and Jennie L. M. Waering prosecuted the case for the United States.
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