Former teacher sentenced for selling heroin

WHEELING, W.Va. – A former teacher and girls’ basketball coach from Marshall County, W.Va., has been sentenced to a 30-month prison term for her conviction on heroin distribution charges.
Amanda Jean Allison, 27, of 512 Rock Lick Road, Cameron, W.Va., was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Wheeling. Following her release, she will also serve three years of supervised release per her sentence.
Allison admitted she conspired to sell heroin with a Greene County man between January and April 6. She has been handed over to the U.S. Marshal Service until her assignment to a federal prison.
Allison is the former junior varsity girls’ basketball coach at Cameron High School and was once a substitute teacher in Greene County.
Allison’s accomplice, Tyler Jay Hoyle, 22, of 185 Bradford Road, Waynesburg, was sentenced in August for his part in the trafficking of heroin.
Hoyle received a sentence of 5 years and 10 months in the federal prison system followed by three years of supervision upon release.
Hoyle is serving his sentence at the McDowell Federal Correctional Institution, near Welch, W.Va.
Investigators seized $10,600 during the investigation that came from the proceeds of drug activity.
The pair was arrested April 18, following a Marshall County Drug Task Force operation that consisted of officers and agents from the Moundsville, W.Va., Police Department, the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
A charge of possession and use of drug paraphernalia against Allison from a June 7 arrest in Greene County has been dismissed. Police were called to the scene by someone who suspected Allison had overdosed.
Allison told police she had passed out while driving along State Route 21, near Gwynn Road after injecting herself with four stamp bags of heroin.
The empty stamp bags were found on the passenger seat and a needle on the passenger side floor of Allison’s Jeep Wrangler. She refused treatment.