Mill Creek mayor jailed
By CARRA HIGGINS, Staff WriterThe mayor of Mill Creek and her two adult children are behind bars in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail after allegedly delivering contraband to an inmate in Huttonsville Correctional Center.
Mayor Diane Currence is charged with seven misdemeanor counts of conspiracy to commit delivery of contraband to an adult in custody; one count of possession of marijuana; four counts of delivery of a contraband to an adult in custody; and one felony count of committing the delivery of marijuana to an adult in custody, according to the Randolph County Sheriff's Department.
Jason Currence, her son, is facing misdemeanor charges of two counts of conspiracy to commit delivery of contraband to an adult in custody and one count of possession of marijuana, the Sheriff's Department said.
Kathryn Currence, her daughter, is charged with one count of delivery of contraband to an adult in custody.
The three were scheduled to be arraigned in Randolph County Magistrate Court this morning.
The arrests were made after an ongoing investigation by the sheriff's department in cooperation with Huttonsville Correctional Center. The three have allegedly been delivering tobacco and other substances to a prisoner.
The incident is still under investigation and more arrests will be made, according to the sheriff's department.
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05-05-09 12:10 PM
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After reading these posts, some of you believe that drugs are a good thing. In response to "FIREDUP", I am a correctional officer at HCC and I am a law biding citizen. I have never been arrested nor do I bring in contraband to the facility. For you to accuse people of doing this is wrong and should be stopped. I will say this, there are people that are not trustworthy that do work there but not all employees do this. Those that are fired from HCC, are fired because they cannot follow the rules the govern HCC. As for "PUBLIUS", making the statement about using drugs in our facilities to make the inmates more submissive, you are wrong. This would only cause more problems then answers. I challenge you to walk the line as a correctional officer and then tell me what you think.
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Publius
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05-01-09 8:29 AM
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Ah ha, found it @wiki ``The Mark Foley scandal, which broke in late Sep 2006, centers on soliciting e-mails and sexually explicit instant messages sent by Foley, a REPUBLICAN CongressMAN from Florida, to TEENAGED BOYS who had formerly served as congressional pages. Investigation was closed by the FLDE on Sep 19, 2008 citing insufficient evidence to pursue criminal charges. The scandal has grown to encompass the response of Republican congressional leaders to previous complaints about Foley's contacts with the pages and inconsistencies in the leaders' public statements. There are also allegations that a second REPUBLICAN, Rep. Jim Kolbe, had improper conduct with at least two youths, a 16-year old page and a recently graduated page." Make me wonder; "how many Catholic priests are Republican?"
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Publius
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04-30-09 7:05 PM
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Puremagix, for YEARS the non-political US Sentencing Commission has been working to eliminate the 100-1 crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity. It only makes a bit of sense in the midst of the overall nonsense of US drug policy. I'm no supporter of Democrats but don't think the GOP doesn't have its share of social and sexual miscreants--that Congressman from S. Florida (his name escapes me) who was exposed/ousted for hitting on underage male pages a couple yeas ago and Sen. Larry "Wide-Stance" Craig looking for sex in the men's room at the airport came immediately to mind though there are many, many more, sad to say.
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Publius
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04-30-09 6:44 PM
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Audyhaze response is typical of defenders of the Drug War--malevolent, vindictive, mean-spirited and outright HATEFUL. Probably descended from (or even current member) of the KKK or Nazi Party. Since the drug laws originated from racism, those types are desperate to cling on to and preserve their last vestige of state-sanctioned hate and intolerance. Tell us, audyhaze, to you call yourself a Christian? If so, how do you reconcile with your Lord and Savior your sentiments towards your fellow humans who choose to pursue their "inalienable rights" to happiness by self-medicating with a PLANT that God Almighty put on Earth? [Genesis 1:29] Also, do you REALLY think it's worth the $20,000/yr. of the people's taxes to lock them up? I'd REALLY be interested in reading an attempt at justification of such waste.
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audyhaze
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04-30-09 4:25 PM
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Publius: I truely hope you get jailed for I can see you are "one of the dope" crowd and its a matter of time you will get the sting of defeat and arrest and spend some time with your druggie friends in Huttonsville or Moundsville. I hope your rearend is up to it and your sick, drugged mind is out of it. I truely feel sorry for you and your low morals and thinking that drugs are the way and your the highway. It will be your epitaph!!
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Publius
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04-30-09 12:23 PM
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"What, me Worry," I am not insane. US drug policy is insane. One definition of insanity is doing the SAME THING OVER AND OVER and expecting different results each time despite the fact the time-proven fact PROHIBITION DOES NOT --AND WILL NOT EVER-- WORK. So, Republicans, keep wasting BILLION$ on your failed moral jihad. It's only a matter of time before the law is repealed because IS accepted by mainstream Americans in ALL walks of life. p/s Correctional officials should welcome marijuana use in prison for it makes people mellow and less likely to fight.
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Puremagix
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04-30-09 8:06 AM
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No one should be shocked when a dopehead pushes to have their drug of choice legalized. Look at Obama, he was a cokehead in college and now he is asking Congress to impose a lesser sentence on those caught with cocaine. One thing you have to remember is that most Democrtats are basically immoral people, that is why they follow the DNC. Which party is it that protects gays, criminals, dopeheads, rapist, murderers and child molesters? The Democrats! Look at ole fish face Pelosi. Remember Harry Hay? Hay was the founder of NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association)and Pelosi proudly marched by his side in a parade in San Francisco honoring him. The Democrats have stonewalled numerous bill in Congress to disolve NAMBLA and make such organizations illegal. Remember, water seeks its own level.
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04-29-09 10:53 PM
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Publius, this case doesn't have anything to do with prohibition. Even if pot were legal it would be a crime to smuggle it into a prison. You don't help your cause by getting on a soap box when the occasion doesn't fit your spiel. You just come off as insane.
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WVNative
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04-29-09 5:44 PM
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Looking at a couple of these posts, it is obvious some of you are smoking that "natural herb".
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audyhaze
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04-29-09 4:03 PM
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This is terrible!! No wonder Mill Creek is in the news continually! I wrote or read some time back about putting "qualified" people in office with education, brains, checked out by NCI and etc. People, get your heads out of your rearends and wake up! You got crooks in the post office, welfare cheats, compensation cheats, for god's sake now the Mayor. The Assessor's office is crooked as a dog's hind leg. Hooked into the County Commissioners Office...hooked into the Randolph County Court House...and now the Huttonsville Correctional Institute... (I doubt this)!! The Valley is nothing but a den of crooks preying upon those who are nieve and stupid. I think law enforcement is here and aware! Too bad DNR doesn't get it!! They are perhaps the most lazy other than the USFS personnel! Both need to hang there heads on the wall of shame! But the Elkins Intermountain and Randolph Sheriffs Departments are doing it all!! They are makin news!!
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FIREDUP
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04-29-09 3:30 PM
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The thing about this is there are more criminals that work at HCC then inmates. You have employees working there that have committed the same crimes as the inmates. I want to know, don't the ethics standards for employees at the prison. And I wonder how many employees are involved in this. You have people working there with DUI, domestic violence, and stealing. Why not helping in this case.
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Publius
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04-29-09 1:08 PM
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Marijuana Prohibition would have ended over 35 years ago had it not been for Richard Nixon, the CRIMINAL president. In that time, the law-enforcement/correctional bureaucracy has grown in leaps and bounds to become a formidable special-interest lobby that stifles reform efforts because repeal threatens their careers and ability to steal and extort from peaceful, otherwise law-abiding citizens. Most politicians are too timid and gutless to admit the laws are wrong because the government has been lying for decades and the people have been intimidated into submission. To detain, extort from, and deprive a citizen of liberty for possessing or growing a NATURAL HERB is blatantly UN-AMERICAN, at least from the Founding Fathers' perspective. Neocons and PHONY "Christians" expect blind obedience and subservience to the state no matter how wrong the law may be.
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Karen42
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04-29-09 9:46 AM
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Either this "Mayor" and her kids are mentally ill, or this guy in Huttonsville, is threating them somehow. This is another one of those, hard to believe, stories.
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