West Virginia inmate sentenced for possessing weapon

RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — An inmate at a Beckley correctional facility was sentenced to prison Friday for possessing a weapon, federal prosecutors said.

Quordell Tarver, 24, an inmate at Federal Correctional Institution Beckley, was sentenced to one year in prison followed by three years of supervised release, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia.

Prosecutors said correctional officers found a shank in Tarver’s underwear in Oct. 2022.

The shank was described as a piece of metal about 5 inches long and sharpened to a point on one end with a piece of white shoelace wrapped around the base.