Hancock County Man Admits to Fentanyl Charge

WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA – Daniel Paul Truax, age 46, of Weirton, West Virginia, has admitted to the distribution of fentanyl. 

According to court documents, Truax was selling fentanyl for a drug trafficking organization that stretched from Chicago to the Ohio Valley including Weirton, WV.

Truax is facing up to 20 years in federal prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Clayton Reid and Carly Nogay are prosecuting the case on behalf of the government.

Investigative agencies include the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug Task Force, a HIDTA-funded initiative; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the United States Marshals Service; the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office; the Brooke County Sheriff’s Office; the Weirton Police Department; the West Virginia State Police; the Jefferson County, Ohio, Sheriff’s Office; and the Steubenville, Ohio, Sheriff’s Office.

U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Mazzone presided.