Two Harman residents facing drug charges
- Ray
- Bennett

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HARMAN — Two women are behind bars and facing felony drug charges after a traffic stop led police to their door.
Josie Ann Ray, 40, of Harman, is charged with intent to deliver, and conspiracy to deliver. She is being held in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $15,000 cash-only bond, set by Randolph County Magistrate Mike Dyer.
Cassandra Jean Bennett, 35, is charged with intent to deliver, and conspiracy to deliver. She also is being held in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $15,000 cash-only bond, set by Magistrate Mike Dyer.
According to the criminal complaint, prepared by Senior Trooper C.A. Hawkins of the Elkins Detachment of the West Virginia State Police, a traffic stop was conducted on U.S. Route 33 on Allegheny Mountain on Wednesday by Trooper First Class K.C. Raymond.
The driver and passenger “were found in possession of methamphetamine,” the complaint states, and “voluntarily gave consent” for the officer to look at the passenger’s cell phone. The officer found “messages and Cash App transactions to and from Josie Ray of Harman which depict the transaction from Ms. Ray to (the passenger) of the recovered methamphetamine.”

Bennett
The passenger reportedly told police that Ray “had more methamphetamine to sell at her residence” in Harman, so Hawkins obtained a search warrant for that residence, according to the complaint.
During the search, officers found a “white, crystal-like substance consistent to methamphetamine” and
“several plastic baggies, scales, lighters and smoking devices,” the complaint states.
As the warrant was being executed, Bennett arrived at the residence, “which she indicates she resides at part-time,” according to the complaint. “As part of the warrant, the vehicle Ms. Bennett was driving, as well as her person, was searched and a white, crystal-like substance consistent with methamphetamine was located,” as were “”several plastic baggies, scales, lighters and smoking devices.”
During conversations between Bennett and Ray, “implications were made that the two were conspiring together,” Hawkins wrote.