Sissonville Man Pleads Guilty To Firearms Charge

{Sissonville, West Virginia}...Rodney Preston Shaffer II, 36, of Sissonville, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine when sentenced on March 21, 2012. Wednesday, Shaffer pleaded guilty to federal charges of possession of a firearm while being addicted to controlled substances. He admitted to owning 23 firearms law enforcement officers seized from his home in March and that, at the time, he was a user of methamphetamine and pain pills. Federal prosecutors dropped a charge of distribution of methamphetamine and a charge of making a false statement to federal authorities. On two separate occasions, between 2008 and 2011, law enforcement officers found pain pills on Shaffer. Shaffer is the son of Sandra Shaffer, the owner of a 53-acre piece of property searched in March while police looked for evidence in the 2003 sniper shooting deaths of three Kanawha County residents.