CHARLESTON - A 29-year-old Chattaroy man, who stands indicted on three felony drug charges in Mingo County, has been returned to Mingo after an NCIC report and an anonymous tip aided Charleston police in locating the fugitive.

Odell Parks Jr. was taken into custody Wednesday evening after Charleston police officers went to the 1,500 block in Charleston on the basis of an anonymous tip that Parks might be staying at that address.

Charleston Patrolman Welsh told Rockel and Kuhn they were looking for Parks after learning from a National Crime Information Center bulletin that the Mingo man was “on the run.”

“Parks was staying in the home of a 16-year-old individual who was shot in the face during an incident being investigated by police,” Rockel told the Daily News. Parks may have been an eyewitness to the shooting but was released to the Mingo officers.

“Welsh said when Parks saw police at the door, he threw up his hands in surrender and said, ‘I’m tired of running.’ “

Lt. Rockel said Parks was indicted by the January 2009 Grand Jury in Mingo County on two counts of delivering a controlled substance (Cocaine) within 1,000 feet of a school, and on one count of conspiracy to deliver that drug.

The two officers drove to Charleston to take custody of Parks and brought him back to Southwestern Regional Jail at Holden Thursday afternoon to await arraignment before Chief Judge Michael Thornsbury. Activity in Circuit Court has been suspended until further notice because of widespread flooding in Mingo County the past weekend.

Parks is one of 16 persons indicted last January on felony drug charges and in connection with “Operation G2” that has resulted in several dozen felony drug convictions thus far this year.

Rockel said there are four other fugitives who were named in sealed indictments in the January group and are still being sought. He identified them as Leo Childress and Jack Daniels, both of the Williamson area; James Fletcher of the Chattaroy area, and Adrienne Cunigan of Dayton, Ohio.