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CHARLESTON -- A Wood County man accused of biting a deputy U.S. marshal in Parkersburg was sentenced Thursday to two-and-a-half years in prison.
Norman Leon Geipe II, 39, pleaded guilty in October to a charge of resisting a federal officer causing bodily injury, according to records from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. He was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Irene C. Berger to two years and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of West Virginia and court records, deputy marshals approached Geipe outside the House to Home day shelter on Eighth Street in Parkersburg and told him they had a warrant for his arrest on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender. Geipe resisted their attempt to take him into custody, biting the forearm of one of the marshals and drawing blood, the release said.
U.S. Attorney Will Thompson commended the investigative work of the U.S. Marshals Service and the Parkersburg Police Department.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Troy D. Adams and Joseph F. Adams prosecuted the case.