By COURTNEY HESSLER, Herald Dispatch of Huntington
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Two men were sentenced Tuesday for their roles in a scheme that involved shipping at least 400 kilograms of marijuana from California to Huntington through the U.S. Postal Service.
James Waylon Molinaro, 44, was sentenced to serve six years and five months in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to possession with intent to deliver marijuana. He also pleaded guilty to prohibited possession of a firearm by a felon stemming from an unrelated possession.
Molinaro previously said he had conspired from 2012 to March 2018 with multiple postal employees to ship marijuana from California to Huntington for distribution.
His co-defendant, Chris Crookshanks, 43, was sentenced to serve three years of supervised release, during which he must serve 12 weeks of intermittent confinement in jail, after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana. Crookshanks admitted he conspired with Molinaro in the scheme between 2013 and 2018. …
