A controlled buy of two tablets led to an arrest and confiscation of more than 300 pills Thursday night in Chattaroy.

According to the criminal complaint filed in Mingo County Magistrate Court, West Virgina troopers B.R. Moore and C.D. Kuhn made a controlled drug buy the first week in January of two hydrocodone tables, a schedule III narcotic with brands names like Lortab, Lorcet and Vicodin, from Jimmy Diamond, 55, of Litton Road in Chattaroy.

Public record shows police searched Diamond’s residence and found approximately eight grams of marijuana, 56 hydrocodone tablets, 32 alprazolam tablets (a nerve medication), 81 Adipex tablets (a diet aid), 125 diazepam tablets (a nerve medication), 17 Valium tablets (a brand name of diazepam), a large sum of cash and various empty pill bottles.

Diamond was arrested on seven charges — delivery of a controlled substance (hydrocodone), and possession with intent to deliver each of the substances listed above, which range from schedule I to IV controlled substances. He faces several years in prison for the seven felony charges.

Magistrate Pam Newsome found probable cause to secure the charges Friday.

At presstime, Diamond remained lodged at Southwestern Regional Jail.

Also arrested this weekend on drug-related charges was Sandra Kay Hall, 39, of Lenore, W.Va.

The criminal complaint states Hall, of 3rd Avenue in Williamson, was charged Jan. 8, on possession of a quantity of marijuana, weigh scales, and packaging paraphernalia for the sale and distribution of marijuana.