Man sentenced to 110 months in federal prison for his role in methamphetamine ring

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — A Warren man who pleaded guilty for his role in a methamphetamine ring with links to Trumbull County was sentenced Monday to just over nine years in federal prison.

Joshua White, 36, received the sentence of 110 months from U.S. Judge Christopher A. Boyko in the U.S. Northern District Court of Ohio.

He pleaded guilty in March to charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine; distribution of methamphetamine; and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

An indictment in the case said White and a co-defendant Dec. 31, 2021, sold methamphetamine to a confidential informant and that he also had a gun Jan. 1, 2022, despite a 2021 conviction on a drug charge in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

The superseding indictment in the case came out of the arrest of a Cortland man, Dolan Ady, 51, who was sentenced in June to 125 months in prison by Judge Boyko after an investigation that began Jan. 2, 2022, when Ady was one of three men who were stopped in a truck towing a trailer on Interstate 76 by a member of the Portage County Sheriff’s Office. Reports said a drug-sniffing dog smelled the odor of drugs in one of the vehicles, according to the criminal complaint in the case.

On Feb. 28, 2022, Portage County law enforcement officials met with Ady at Newton Falls Municipal Court, where he was with his probation officer. The complaint said Ady told them that about a half hour before the truck and trailer were pulled over, he had bought $2,000 worth of methamphetamine from a source at a gas station in Ravenna.

The complaint said Ady admitted buying half-pound quantities of methamphetamine from the same source since the end of 2021 and was buying off that person every two to three days. Ady intended to sell the meth on his own in Trumbull County, according to the complaint.

The drugs seized during the traffic stop were tested by a lab and were determined to be 100% methamphetamine, the complaint said. The weight of the drugs was almost a half pound, according to the complaint.

After Ady was indicted in August 2022 , a grand jury returned a superseding indictment in September 2022 charging seven other people with conspiring with Ady to sell methamphetamine.

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