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WEST VIRGINIA....
Acting on a tip, officers with the Huntington Police Department, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives went to an apartment in the 500 block of Bridge Street in Guyandotte Thursday morning where they were allowed inside. There they confiscated approximately 1,000 OxyContin pills, about 5 grams of heroin, more than $40,000 cash and drug paraphernalia. They also found evidence marijuana had been smoked in the apartment. They arrested James Anthony Mitchell, Simon Lee Connor, Harry Matthew Rood and Jerome Edward Norman and charged each with felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Matthew Rood is a former police officer who spent three years on the Proctorville police department, worked as a special deputy with the Lawrence County, Ohio Sheriffs Department and was an auxiliary officer with the South Point Police.