Harvey

NORTON — An Upshur County woman is accused of attempting to bring drugs into the Tygart Valley Regional Jail while being booked into the facility this week.

Kelly Dawn Harvey, 40, of Buckhannon, has been charged with transport of controlled substances into a state correctional facility, and offenses by inmate.

She is being held at the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $50,000 cash-only bond, set by Randolph County Magistrate Tracy Harper.

According to the criminal complaint, prepared by Corporal D.R. Wolford Jr. of the West Virginia State Police, on Wednesday he was notified that an inmate had allegedly transported a controlled substance into Tygart Valley Regional Jail.

When Harvey was booked into TVRJ on Sunday she was in possession of blue wax paper which field-tested positive for fentanyl, the complaint states. Harvey was then held in a booking cell by herself for a “dry cell period.”

On Wednesday, after Harvey was moved to a general population cell, her booking cell was searched, with officers finding “additional blue in color wax paper matching those from her original arrest in Upshur County” which also field tested positive for fentanyl, according to the complaint.

Officers then found more blue wax paper among Harvey’s personal belongings in the general population cell, the complaint states.

Harvey was arrested along with another woman, Rebecca D. Glover, 41, of Buckhannon, earlier in the week by the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by the West Virginia State Police and the Buckhannon Police Department.

Harvey was charged with possession with intent to deliver fentanyl, and conspiracy to deliver fentanyl.

Glover was charged with transporting fentanyl into the state of West Virginia, delivery of fentanyl and conspiracy to deliver fentanyl.

According to an Upshur County Sheriff’s Office press statement Monday, officers received a tip that a Buckhannon resident was “planning to transport suspected fentanyl into West Virginia from outside the state. Deputies worked to corroborate this tip and identified a suspect vehicle.”

The suspect vehicle passed by law enforcement on U.S. 33 at approximately 9 p.m. Feb. 22, and “attempted to elude officers” and went behind the Wingate Hotel on Commerce Boulevard, the release states.

During a subsequent search, deputies found “approximately 200 individual packages of suspected fentanyl, with a street value of approximately $3,000,” according to the release.