WEST VIRGINIA — BELINGTON, W.Va. — After being called to a verbal argument in Belington, officers discovered meth and arrested a guy.
Troopers from the West Virginia State Police’s Barbour County detachment received a request for assistance at a residence at the Golden Rule Apartments on South Crime Avenue in Belington on Jan. 7, according to a criminal complaint.
When troopers arrived, they tried to enter the property but were unable to do so because all of the doors were locked; at this time, officers “heard a commotion on the side of the building and witnessed a side door being unlocked,” according to authorities.
Troopers heard two people shouting as they approached the side entrance. According to the complaint, they got closer to the source of the noise and saw a guy “push forward a female and the female swipe at the man’s arms while shouting” through a glass door of the building.
Troopers then knocked on the door, which was opened for them by the female. Troopers then spotted “several bags and a rolling cart” near the entrance, as well as a guy, subsequently identified as Robert Marsh, 55, of Belington, “stretching down toward the floor on the opposite side of the cart,” troopers said.
Marsh was arrested at that time for trooper safety, and when he alerted troopers that he had a weapon on him, a search revealed six blades, as well as six individually wrapped packages of suspected methamphetamine, two sets of digital scales, and glass smoking devices, according to the complaint.
Troopers talked with the lady, who said that “she and [Marsh] had an altercation over him talking to another female,” and that Marsh “did not hit her but did pull her hair”; troopers observed that “a little clump of hair on the carpet near the doorway.”
Marsh told troopers in a post-Miranda interview that he “did not remember pulling [the woman’s] hair, but he might have,” and that the substance they found “was in fact methamphetamine.” Marsh also “confessed he would occasionally trade and sell methamphetamine,” and that he had “traded meth for an airsoft rifle and drone in the past,” according to the complaint.
Marsh has been charged with possessing a controlled drug with the intent to supply it. On a $20,000 bail, he is being detained at Tygart Valley Regional Jail.
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