by JESSICA HATFIELD Staff Writer
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Former Belfry Homecoming Queen, Dana Lou Hall, appears before Mingo County Magistrate Pam Newsome.
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Former Belfry Homecom-ing Queen, Dana Lou Hall, 27, of Williamson, appeared in Mingo County Magistrate Court Wednesday, Dec. 9. Hall waived her right to a preliminary hearing and now the case will be bound over the grand jury. Police say that routine traffic stop Friday evening resulted in a drug bust and Hall’s arrest.
According to investigating Officer Senior Trooper B.R. Moore, Hall, 27 of Williamson, had been under investigation for the last month by the Williamson Police Department and the West Virginia State Police. Numerous citizens told officers Hall was selling OxyContin and traveling to Florida to obtain the prescriptions from various doctors.
During the course of their investigation, Moore said they discovered Hall was traveling to Fort Lauder-dale, Fla., monthly to get the prescriptions on which she was making approximately $12,000 in profit.
During the traffic stop, police confiscated 285 30 milligram Oxycontin, 125 15 milligram Oxycontin, 50 2 milligram Xanax, and 119 Somas, having a street value of just over $11,000.
Hall was charged with two counts of delivery, two counts of possession with intent to deliver and two counts of trafficking in and out of the state.
Hall was arraigned by Mingo County Magistrate Dee Side-bottom where bond was set at $600,000. She was transported to Southwestern Regional Jail, where she remains.
Moore stated that this is one arrest in an investigation the police are conducting and they expect to make several more.
Williamson Police Department Lt. C.D. Rockel is assisting in the investigations.