A Davis & Elkins College student is lodged in Tygart Valley Regional Jail after the Elkins Police Department searched his dorm room and found a setup for manufacturing marijuana.
According to the criminal complaint provided by the EPD, the D&E security detail received an anonymous e-mail referencing drug activity in room 142 of Presidential Hall. The dean of students and security requested police presence to enter the room. Elkins police officers told the security officers they could not enter the room. However, Kenneth David McCartney Jr., 19, of Montross, Va., was present and gave police permission for the police to come inside.
"Once inside, a small set up of manufacturing marijuana was noted under the defendant's bed," the report states. "Seven marijuana plants were being raised inside a plastic container with a grow light on top."
Police also found a scale, rolling papers, baggies, several bongs and pipes in the room. Inside a blue glass, police found several germinating marijuana seeds. According to the complaint, McCartney showed police where most of the items were located.
The report states, "After the items were collected, the defendant was placed under arrest for manufacturing a controlled substance ... While police were at the department, a sample was taken from one of the bongs and tested with a Narcotics Analysis Reagent Kit No. 8 ... and the test was positive for marijuana. One or more of the plants may be sent to a Charleston lab for testing upon request of the prosecutor."
Sgt. E.R. Canfield and Patrolman S.R. Judy are the investigating officers. According to Capt. J.E. Batdorf, McCartney will be arraigned today in Randolph County Magistrate Court.
