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Date: 10-14-2020

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United States of America v. James Harold Lichliter and Jonathan Dale Neice

Case Number: 5:19-cr-00025-EKD-JCH

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Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia (Rockingham County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States District Attorney’s Office, Harrisonburg, Virginia

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Description: Harrisonburg, Virginia drug possession and distribution criminal defense lawyer presented James Harold Lichliter and Jonathan Dale Neice.

The United States of America charged James Harold Lichliter, aged 52, and Jonathan Dale Neice, age 42, with distribution and possession with the intent to distribute resulting in the death of J.H. and the serious bodily injury of J.W.

“The scourge of heroin is a deadly killer that does not discriminate. This office will do all it can to stem the tide and prosecute anyone who participates in its distribution in our communities,” Acting United States Attorney Bubar said today. “We will use all available resources and continue to closely partner with federal, state and local law enforcement to hold drug dealers like Lichliter and Neice, who seek to profit from this treacherous epidemic, responsible for their actions.”

According to court documents, beginning around June 2017 a Maryland-based drug-trafficking network began selling controlled substances to Virginia-based drug traffickers, who, in turn, transported those drugs to Shenandoah County for redistribution.

Defendants Craig Kidwell and his wife Norma Kidwell repeatedly traveled from their home in Shenandoah County to Maryland to obtain heroin from the Maryland-based drug-trafficking organization. At times, the heroin Craig Kidwell and Norma Kidwell obtained from their Maryland-based source was mixed with other drugs, such as fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl.

After obtaining heroin, Craig Kidwell and Norma Kidwell transported the drugs back to Shenandoah County where the drugs were redistributed to others, including, but not limited to, co-defendants Lichliter, Marston, and Neice, who redistributed the drugs to others around Shenandoah County.

As a direct result of the defendants’ drug distribution activities, two overdoses occurred, one of which resulted in the death of victim J.H.

The investigation of the case was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration, Virginia State Police, Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Office, and Woodstock Police Department with the assistance of the Shenandoah County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland. Assistant United States Attorney Jeb Terrien is prosecuting the case for the United States.

Lichliter:

21:841A=CD.F CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - SELL, DISTRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE 21:841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C) - heroin, acetyl fentanyl and fentanyl (12/22/2017)
(4)

Neice:

21:841A=CD.F CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - SELL, DISTRIBUTE, OR DISPENSE 21:841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C) - heroin, acetyl fentanyl and fentanyl (12/22/2017)
(6)

Outcome: Lichliter was sentenced to 144 Months in prison; SR 5 years; SA: $100; FINE: $300.

Neice was sentenced to 132 months in prison; SR: 5 years; SA: $100; FINE: $100.

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