MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Eight more people have been sentenced for their roles in a massive Eastern Panhandle drug trafficking organization.

Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard for the Northern District of West Virginia tells MetroNews an indictment from January of 2024 named Gary Brown, Jr. and eighty-one others, charging that the defendants caused substantial amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine to be distributed in Berkeley and Jefferson Counties.

Those sentenced this week in Martinsburg include: • Eric Garner, also known as “Pops,” age 58, of Baltimore, Maryland, was sentenced to 300 months. • Gary Rodriguez, also known as “Mr. T,” age 34, of Lanham, Maryland, was sentenced to 240 months in prison. • Benjamin Paul Knotts, age 49, of Charles Town, West Virginia, wa

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