Former inmate indicted on illicit drug charges – Huntington Herald Dispatch

HUNTINGTON – A former Western Regional Jail inmate has been indicted on charges alleging she brought heroin into the facility.

Emily Jade Corns, 24, was indicted on one count transporting a controlled substance into a jail, third-offense driving under the influence, third offense driving on a suspended or revoked license because of DUI convictions and obstructing an officer, according to July indictments unsealed Friday.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Cabell County Magistrate Court, Huntington police were called June 1 to West 10th Street for a woman passed out in a running vehicle blocking the alley between Madison and Monroe avenues. The driver, identified as Corns, admitted to injecting around a tenth of a gram of heroin into a vein on the back of her hand around an hour prior, complaints state.

Corns’ driver’s license had been revoked for three previous DUI convictions in July 2014, June 2015 and September 2015, complaints state. After failing field sobriety testing Thursday, Corns was arrested and transported to Western Regional Jail.

While being booked just after 9 p.m., corrections officers found a plastic bag containing a third of a gram of heroin hidden inside Corns’ body, the criminal complaint alleges.

Corns’ arrest is the latest surrounding drugs at the Barboursville Jail.

The facility reported at least eight overdoses in a three-week span from April to May. Huntington Police Chief Joe Ciccarelli previously said the drugs responsible for five of those overdoses came from a female arrestee who had hidden 15 grams of heroin deep in a body cavity.

In addition to Corns, two former Western Regional Jail employees have been charged with drug-related felonies in the recent past.

The West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety announced last week an aim at combating contraband through education and stronger enforcement through the appointment of retired Putnam Sheriff deputy Jack Luikart as the department’s director of correctional substance abuse control.

A Cabell County grand jury returned the following unrelated indictments in July. An indictment is a formal charge made against a person by a grand jury. It does not establish guilt or innocence.

>> Timothy Shawn Bates (Ashland): Transporting into the state a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy.

>>Courtney L. Bohnke (South Point, Ohio): Failure to appear.

>>Dwayne Wood Bowman (1500 block of West Road, Huntington): Failure to appear.

>>Michael Andre Bellamy (1500 block of 6th Avenue, Huntington): Counterfeiting and possession of counterfeit with intent to utter.

>>Douglas Isaiah Conn (Kenova): Attempting to operate a clandestine drug laboratory.

>>Fallon Donahue-Pool (900 block of Dugan Street, Huntington): Possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

>>Nathan Tryke Ferguson (500 block of Buffington Street, Huntington): Child neglect creaking risk of death or serious bodily injury and possession of a controlled substance.

>>David Isaac Frazier Jr. (Ironton): Felon in possession of a firearm.

>>Michael Daniel Garrett (1600 block of 9th Avenue, Huntington): Entry of a building other than a dwelling.

>>Justin Sheldon Golden (Charleston): Burglary, malicious wounding and assault.

>>Phillip Michael Harris (100 block of Davis Street, Huntington): Strangulation and second-offense domestic battery.

>>Andrea Nicole Harrison (1600 block of Kessler Avenue, Huntington): Possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy.

>>Trevion Antwain Hatten (Columbus, Ohio): Possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

>>Christopher Lee Hayes (900 block of Monroe Avenue, Huntington): Possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and child neglect creating a substantial risk of serious bodily injury.

>>Leiquita Maria Howard (1600 block of Dalton Avenue, Huntington): Third-offense shoplifting.

>>Christopher William Johnson (1500 block of Monroe Avenue, Huntington): Delivery of a controlled substance.

>>Osiris Yakinijahi Johnson (900 block of Washington Avenue, Huntington): Possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy.

>>Demarco Ronnell Leonard (1300 block of Huntington Avenue, Huntington): Felon in possession of a firearm.

>>Jodeci Jashun Mack (1200 block of West 5th Avenue, Huntington): Failure to appear.

>>Justin Allen-Michael Marsha (First block of Royal Oakes Lane, Huntington): Child abuse causing bodily injury.

>>John Philip McClendon (200 block of Nova Street, Huntington): Third-offense driving under the influence and driving on a suspended or revoked license for DUI conviction.

>>Ashly N. McGuire (Ashland): Transporting into the state a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy.

>>Benjamin Joseph Midkiff (2700 block of Washington Boulevard, Huntington): Possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

>>Willie Moten (600 block of 5th Avenue, Huntington): Wanton endangerment.

>>Shawn A. Owens (Ashland): Transporting into the state a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy.

>>Charles George Perdue (900 block of Monroe Avenue, Huntington): Possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy.

>>Angel Dawn Prescott (First block of Pine Drive, Barboursville): Child neglect creating a substantial risk of serious bodily injury, domestic assault, domestic battery, wanton endangerment and malicious wounding.

>>Steven Stanley Rolkosky (Cross Lanes, W.Va.): Third-offense driving under the influence, driving on a suspended or revoked license for DUI conviction and reckless driving.

>>Meagan Gail Russell (2700 block of Highlawn Avenue, Huntington): Transporting into the state a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy.

>>Summer Marie Scott (900 block of Monroe Avenue, Huntington): Possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and child neglect creating a substantial risk of serious bodily injury.

>>Benjamin Curtis Thompson (Genoa): burglary and petit larceny.

>>Melissa Dawn Weaver (300 block of Lynda Court, Huntington): Child neglect creating substantial risk of serious bodily injury.

>>Solomon Rashad Wilburn (1100 block of 17th Street, Huntington): Grand larceny and breaking and entering an automobile.

>>James Deshun Williams (1500 block of Washington Avenue, Huntington): Transporting into the state a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and conspiracy.

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