WV Delivery Driver Gets Prison for $510,000 Fuel-Card Scheme
A federal judge in Charleston, West Virginia, sentenced Jeffrey Jeffers, 35, of Williamstown, to two years and six months in prison for wire fraud, followed by three years of supervised release. Jeffers must pay $510,465.19 in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of West Virginia.
Jeffers drove delivery trucks for an industrial gas distributor out of its Wood County facility between November 2022 and July 2024. Court documents say his trucks normally refueled only at the distribution facility and were issued company fuel credit cards. Prosecutors said Jeffers opened online payment-platform accounts under the names of fictitious service stations he invented, then charged more than 900 phantom fuel purchases to his employer's cards, with payments routed to his fake accounts.
U.S. Attorney Moore Capito credited the FBI with the investigation. U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin imposed the sentence; Assistant U.S. Attorney Gabriel Price prosecuted the case.
The press release does not name the employer or describe how the scheme was uncovered.
What's next
- Restitution payment schedule and any civil recovery by the employer are not detailed in the release.
- Watch PACER Case No. 2:26-cr-85 for the judgment and any appeal.
All sources
- Wood County Man Sentenced to Prison for $510,465.19 Fraud Scheme — Government site: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of West Virginia (FBI investigation), 2026-11-09
