MULTIPLE ARRESTS MADE Police Discover Drugs, Guns Inside Beckley Home; Three Arrested
Reported by: Bethany Simmons
Web Producer: Bethany Simmons
Reported: Oct. 26, 2012 8:01 AM EDT
Updated: Oct. 26, 2012 8:57 AM EDT
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Beckley
, West Virginia
Three people were arrested after police said they discovered drugs and guns inside a home in Beckley on Wednesday.
Kenneth Walters, 28, and Lashaun Walters have been charged with being felons in possession of firearms, police said. Leondus Whitenburg, 30, also was arrested in that same incident and charged with possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute.
Police said they found 10 firearms inside the house, more than 100 grams of crack cocaine and a couple of dozen oxycodone pills.
The three men were taken to the Southern Regional Jail.
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