Eastern Panhandle residents enter pleas in drug-distribution cases | West Virginia

• Amy Little, aka Amy Jackson, 45, of Harpers Ferry, W.Va., admitted to her role in a heroin-, cocaine-, and fentanyl-distribution operation and pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of unlawful use of a communication facility, according to a news release from Powell’s office.

Little, who admitted to using a cellphone to arrange a purchase of heroin in September in Berkeley County, W.Va., faces up to four years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Little was among 33 people named in multiple indictments involving heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl distribution, officials announced in March. 

Agents seized 891 grams of controlled substances, several firearms, ammunition and more than $33,000 in cash during several raids and searches in West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania in January that resulted in the indictments.

• Nicholas Wayne Deminds, 30, of Martinsburg, who admitted to distributing fentanyl, pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, according to a separate news release from Powell’s office. 

Deminds, who admitted to distributing more than 25 grams of fentanyl in December in Berkeley County, also agreed to forfeit a box of 20 rounds of ammunition and $4,523, the release said. 

Deminds faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

U.S. Magistrate Robert W. Trumble presided over the cases.