Published: November 20, 2009 10:56 pm      

11/21/09 - Citizen’s tip leads to six drug arrests in Mineral County

KEYSER, W.Va. — Six Keyser residents were arrested on drug charges Thursday following a joint police investigation that began with a citizen’s tip.

The Keyser City Police Department and the Mineral County Sheriff’s Department collaborated in the investigation that led to four arrests in a traffic stop on St. Cloud Street early Thursday afternoon and the raid of a Limestone Road area residence outside the city limits a short time after the traffic stop, police said.

Arrested in the traffic stop were Larry G. Baldwin, 61; Matthew E. Baldwin, 27; Paula J. Holland, 43; and Jared N. Citarelli, 21.

Both Baldwins and Holland were charged with felony possession with intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance. Citarelli was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance.

During the drug raid by city police and sheriff’s deputies at the Limestone Road area residence, officers arrested Mark C. Brant, 38, and Joletta Rebovich, 42, on charges of felony possession with intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance.

Following hearings by a Mineral County magistrate, Matthew Baldwin was jailed on $4,100 bond; Holland, $3,000 bond; Citarellli, $500; Brant, $5,000; and Rebovich, $4,600. Larry Baldwin was awaiting a bond hearing Friday, according to a court spokesman.

Police seized two vehicles, heroin, cash and drug paraphernalia at the time of the arrests.