WILLIAMSON - An Inez, Ky., woman was arrested Monday on counterfeiting and drug-related charges after she attempted to pay her $150 doctor’s fee with bogus bills. Her nephew was also taken into custody on drug counts Monday by local and state police.

The drama took place on West Third Avenue at Mountain Comprehensive Care Center, referred to by Williamson Police Lt. C. D. Rockel as the “Wellness Center,” where Violet Faye June, 54, and Jonathan Coleman, 34, of Pilgrim, Ky., were arrested.

Rockel said the investigation is not complete, but the woman and her nephew are each held in Southwestern Regional Jail near Holden on five charges each. They were awaiting arraignment by a Mingo County Magistrate late Monday.

Jude is charged with counterfeiting of $20 bills; counterfeiting with intent to utter; obtaining a controlled substance from a source other a physician; one count of possession of a controlled substance, Oxycontin, and one count of possession of a controlled substance, Hydrocodone.

Coleman is charged with two counts of delivery of controlled substances, Oxy-contin and Hydrocodone, and three counts of possession with intent to deliver those two drugs.

Rockel said he was called to the Wellness Center after Jude had attempted to pay a $150 fee for a doctor’s visit, and a center employee detected three counterfeit $20 bills among the other money offered as payment. Rockel said it was discovered that the three bogus bills bore the same serial number, “which was a dead giveaway that the three 20s were counterfeit.”

The officer said Jude had left the building a few minutes and returned in an agitated state. “She didn’t want a receipt for the money she was paying for the visit and acted very suspiciously,” said Rockel.

After a few more minutes of talking with the woman, Rockel quoted her as saying “she didn’t really know where she got the money we had discovered was counterfeit.”

During further investigation, Rockel said the officers found $200 more in bogus $20 bills stashed in a secret compartment in her pocketbook, separate from her regular money. Three Oxycontin pills were found in another container and Hydrocodone was in a prescription bottle, he added.

“We took her into custody and she explained to us that she was holding the bills for somebody else,” said Rockel.

The nephew, Coleman, was found with Oxycontin in a regular container and three kinds of Hydrocodone in the same pill box, said Rockel.

The pair had traveled to Williamson in a Chevrolet S10 Blazer but the officers had not yet established ownership when it was confiscated along with an estimated $1,000 worth of controlled substances and about $500 in cash. Rockel said Mrs. Jude was the driver of the vehicle in which the officers also found some drugs.

Rockel was assisted in the initial investigation by Trooper First Class S.T. Harper and Trooper B .R. Moore of the Williamson detachment of West Virginia State Police.