CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - The former owner of Drummy's Bar and
Grill in St. Albans has been sentenced to a year and a day in
prison for being a go-between in a gambling ring that stretched
from Welch to Dunbar.

Derrick Jay Drumheller of St. Albans pleaded guilty in August to
placing bets on behalf of Welch pharmacist Saad Kamil Deeb with a
bookie in Dunbar.

The 48-year-old Drumheller says he never made money from the
transactions, but Deeb would send him moonshine or buy him dinner.

U.S. District Judge John Copenhaver Jr. also ordered Drumheller
to pay a $10,000 fine on top of more than $69,000 in back taxes
he's already paid.

Deeb was placed on five years' probation in August, including
one year on home confinement.

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