Man Guilty of Buying LSD With State Fund

A man convicted of buying LSD with $20,000 he received from a state fund for crime victims has been sentenced to four years in prison and fined $14,000, federal court officials said Wednesday.

James B. Miller, 29, of South Charleston, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of distributing the hallucinogenic drug, admitting that he sold 3,300 “hits” of LSD to police agents in 1986. He appeared Tuesday before U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr.

Compensation fund records show that Miller was awarded the maximum personal-injury payment of $20,000 in 1985 after he was shot in the right arm in 1983. Miller lost his arm and incurred about $38,000 in medical bills, state officials said.