Barren man receives 20-year sentence in federal drug case
A Barren County man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking offenses.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky announced that Shane Stuart Wheat, 35, of Glasgow was sentenced Oct. 26.
Wheat was accused of distribution of meth, with authorities saying that the criminal charges resulted from the trafficking of about 159 grams of the drug.
The FBI and the Barren River Drug Task Force investigated the case.
Wheat had previously been convicted five times of drug trafficking, with three of those offenses subjecting him to increased penalties in this case and his prior criminal history making him a “career offender” under federal sentencing guidelines.
“Twenty years in prison is a significant sentence which reflects the fact that Wheat was simply determined to remain a drug dealer for his entire life,” U.S. Attorney Kyle Bumgarner said in a statement. “His drug trafficking career is over for two decades thanks to the important work of the Barren River Drug Task Force and the FBI.”
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