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Proctorville man charged after thousands of pills found
Published Thursday, December 10, 2009
PROCTORVILLE — Authorities expect the case of a Proctorville man charged with possession of drugs with intent to deliver to go before a Cabell County grand jury.
Thomas D. Lewis, 54, of Proctorville, was arrested the afternoon of Dec. 3 with Tony Lovejoy, 45, of Huntington, W.Va., after West Virginia State Police recovered close to 2,000 prescription pills from the vehicle the two were in.
Found in the car were 1,514 Oxycodone pills, 381 Xanax pills, 30 Endocet pills and 60 liquid doses of 20 milligram Oxycodone. The pair had come up from Florida.
“They had been down doctor shopping,” Cpl. B.M. Greenlee from the West Virginia State Police, said.
Currently both men are housed in the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville, W.Va., each under a $50,000 bond.
“After 10 days they are required to have a preliminary hearing,” Greenlee said. “If they don’t make bond, there will be a preliminary hearing.”
After that, the case is expected to be bound over to the grand jury.
“I’m sure they will find probable cause,” Greenlee said.
The men were pulled over for having several equipment violations on their car.
State police had no idea drugs were in the car at the time the pair was stopped. They were 10 blocks from their destination.
Total worth of the pills confiscated were $43,878.
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Posted by Mammaw (anonymous) on December 10, 2009 at 10:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Let's start sending all the Florida junkies back to Florida so they can feel the monetary burden we are all experiencing. I bet they will do something about their "pain clinics" then.
Posted by falinrok (anonymous) on December 10, 2009 at 11:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree mammaw , We should be able to send people like this to the state & county they got there drugs from and let them foot the bill for prisoner upkeep.
Posted by donrbs (anonymous) on December 10, 2009 at 11:55 a.m. (Suggest removal)
or send them to china.....very cheap .....outsourcing your headaches away. If the county cannot pay then they will recover valuable parts from the prisoner.......
Posted by straightoplay (anonymous) on December 10, 2009 at 12:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You are correct and our federal government should step in on these states that do legal drug dealing.
Posted by Dacryocystorhinostomy (anonymous) on December 10, 2009 at 3:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
As a former cop I can tellya that most dope transporters ("mules") are caught only cuz they're stupid and commit traffic violations which give the cops probable cause to at least make a perfunctory search of their vehicle and contents of their pockets. But for every idiot like these two, there are hundreds more who are careful not to break any traffic laws & who keep their vehicles inconspicuous so as not to draw the cops' attention.
Checkpoints do no good since they must be advertised. Like it or not, we need more random stop-n-search laws. So, whaddya want, people? More pushers to be busted, requiring more police intrusion, or "handcuffed" cops & freewheeling dope trafficking?
Posted by jhuck (anonymous) on December 10, 2009 at 9:35 p.m. (Suggest removal)
More random stop-and-search laws will fix the problem. Lets go ahead and take away our citizens rights to own firearms, so their are no more robberies or murders, also.
Posted by nottellin (anonymous) on December 11, 2009 at 4:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Mammaw's right... Send'em to Florida. Don't make Ohio taxpayers pay for them. Then maybe, if we send enough felons to their system, Florida will start trying to stop this crap on THEIR end.
Posted by osufan (anonymous) on February 4, 2010 at 11:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
why cant these florida dr's be charges for drug traffican and even a few death's? we need somekind of punishment for them!!
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