MERCER COUNTY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Jeremy David Hensley, age 38, of Bluefield, West Virginia, was sentenced to 11-15 years in prison for two counts of Escape, one count of delivery of a controlled substance, and one count of conspiracy.
Hensley was sentenced to 5 years in prison on each escape charge, to be run consecutively, and 1-5 years in prison for each of the delivery and conspiracy counts, to be ran concurrently with each other, but consecutively with the escape sentences.
According to Mercer County Prosecuting Attorney Brian K. Cochran, Hensley was placed on Home Confinement in January of 2024 and removed his home confinement bracelet and fled. After his arrest for that incident, he was later given another chance on home confinement with the condition that he attend Recovery Point. He then removed his home confinement bracelet and left Recovery Point in February 2024. Cochran said Hensley was indicted on two separate indictments by the June, 2024, Mercer County Grand Jury, and pled guilty on June 12, 2025.
​Cochran said that Judge Mark Wills handed down the prison sentence on Monday, August 11, 2025. Cochran praised the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department for its investigations into Hensley’s crimes.
