By Sarah Richardson
A Greenbrier County man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegal firearm possession. Ronald Ray McMillion, 73, of Renick, appeared in Greenbrier County Circuit Court earlier this week where he was convicted of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, a felony under West Virginia law.
McMillion was ordered to serve three years for the firearm possession offense, with an additional five years added due to his prior felony convictions. A Prison Commitment Order filed in Circuit Court states that the additional five years of his sentence were for punishment for second offense of felony, a repeat offender clause under WV State Code.
McMillion previously served five years in federal prison after pleading guilty in 2016 to distributing oxycodone. Prosecutors said he had traveled to Baltimore to obtain pills and then sold them in Greenbrier County.
McMillion was also at the center of a high-profile missing persons case involving Dee Ann Keene, a 43-year-old Renick woman who disappeared on Feb. 28, 2014.
Keene was last seen at McMillion’s home in Friars Hill, where a witness later told police McMillion, allegedly intoxicated, fired a gun near her head. Keene was reported missing March 5, 2014, and the next day, McMillion was arrested for felon in possession of a firearm.
In February 2023, a grand jury indicted McMillion for the murder of Dee Anne Keene, but despite new investigations and searches, Keene’s body has still not been found. In November 2024, prosecutors dismissed the murder charge without prejudice, citing insufficient evidence, conflicting witness statements, and forensic test results that did not support the case.
