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REGIONAL
Jail
personnel
escort
some
of
those
rounded
up
and
charged
with
drug-related
offenses
into
a
waiting
jail
bus.
Those
charged
were
transported
to
the
regional
jail
to
wait
Tuesday's
arraignment
proceedings.
(Staff
photo/Scotty
Wampler.)
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22
Are
Indicted
in
Big
County
Drug
Roundup
More
Charges
Are
Expected;
Additional
Indictments
Still
to
Be
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by
Scotty
Wampler
Staff
Reporter
Twenty-two
men
and
women
have
been
arrested
Friday
and
indicted
on
charges
including
drug
possession
and
distribution,
among
others.
In
total,
74
charges
were
filed
and
unsealed
by
the
court.
Fifty-two
individuals
countywide
were
targeted
in
the
effort
and
named
in
157
sealed
indictments.
The
Task
Force
asked
that
the
names
of
those
who
escaped
arrest
last
week
not
be
identified
until
such
time
as
those
persons
are
actually
taken
into
custody
and
formally
charged.
The
roundup
is
still
ongoing
of
the
remaining
30
people,
some
of
whom
were
said
to
already
be
in
custody
in
the
penitentiary
system.
The
roundup
was
conducted
by
the
29th
Circuit
Narcotics
Task
Force,
a
multi-agency
group
comprised
of
representatives
of
the
Buchanan
County
Sheriff's
Office,
the
Virginia
State
Police
and
the
Town
of
Grundy
Police
Department.
During
the
early-morning
effort,
several
seizures
were
made
that
included
prescription
drugs,
cocaine
and
firearms
from
various
locations
throughout
the
county,
according
to
the
sheriff's
office.
Buchanan
County
Sheriff
Ray
Foster
noted
the
effort
also
involved
the
McDowell
County,
WV
sheriff's
office
and
the
West
Virginia
State
Police.
Foster
said
he
appreciated
the
cooperation
his
department
has
had
in
terms
of
support,
information
and
manpower
to
help
with
the
roundup
which
he
called
the
first
of
2007.
"The
more
we
work
together,
the
more
we
can
accomplish
in
the
war
on
drugs,"
Foster
said.
He
also
recognized
citizens
for
their
support
and
information.
"We're all in this
together,"
Foster
said.
"We
all
have
family
to
protect,
children
or
grandchildren
that
attend
our
schools,
travel
our
roads
and
play
in
our
neighborhoods.
We
can
make
a
difference
if
we
all
work
toward
the
same
goal
which
is
to
stop
the
drugs."
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Board
Seeks
Legislation
to
Halt
Discharge
Authority
Given
to
Hire
Law
Firm
as
Lobbyist
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by
Cathy
St.
Clair
News
Editor
A
resolution
asking
the
Virginia
legislature
to
enact
special
legislation
preventing
the
proposed
discharge
of
what
the
resolution
refers
to
as
“toxic
water”
into
the
Levisa
River
by
Consolidation
Coal
Company
was
adopted
Monday
by
the
Buchanan
County
Board
of
Supervisors.
“Virginia’s
federal
and
state
elected
officials
are
respectfully
requested
to
take
all
legal
actions
which
they
deem
appropriate
to
prevent
the
proposed
discharge
of
toxic
water
into
the
Levisa
River,”
the
resolution
notes.
The
legislative
action
is
requested
in
part
to
assure
that
the
State
Water
Control
Board
has
“an
appropriate
opportunity
to
comply
with
its
duty”
pursuant
to
the
code
of
Virginia.
That
duty
is
described
as
“to
conduct
or
have
conducted
scientific
experiments,
investigations,
studies
and
research
to
discover
methods
for
maintaining
water
quality
consistent
with
the
law.”
It
adds
that
the
Consolidation
permit
is
now
the
subject
of
an
administrative
review
with
a
formal
hearing
tentatively
set
for
March
and
suggests
that
“immediate
legislation
is
needed
to
suspend
the
administrative
review
process
and
prevent
the
discharge
of
the
Consolidation
Coal
Company’s
non-treated
toxic
mine
waters
into
the
Levisa
River
until
the
State
Water
Control
Board
(and
DMME,
the
delegated
agency)
has
fully
complied
with
all
the
requirements
and
duties
of
the
State
Water
Control
Law.”
The
board
also
agreed
to
hire
the
law
firm
of
Christian
&
Barton,
P.C.
at
a
fee
of
up
to
$320
per
hour
for
an
overall
estimated
cost
of
$15,000
to
$35,000
to
the
county
for
the
law
firm's
assistance
to
the
county
as
lobbyists
in
the
effort
to
seek
legislative
relief
to
address
the
county's
concerns
related
to
the
discharge.
Copies
of
the
resolution
asking
for
legislative
action
are
being
sent
to
Virginia
Gov.
Tim
Kaine,
Lt.
Gov.
Bill
Bolling,
Attorney
General
Bob
McDonnell,
State
Sen.
Phillip
Puckett,
State
Del.
Dan
Bowling,
U.S.
Senators
John
Warner
and
George
Allen,
Ninth
District
Rep.
Rick
Boucher
and
officials
of
the
Commonwealth
of
Kentucky.
For more of the
story, see the print edition of the Mountaineer, on sale at
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