HUNTINGTON, W.Va. –Two Huntington men were arrested following a joint operation to bring one of the individuals into police custody.
According to a release from the Huntington Police Department, Devon Maurice Carey, 31, and Samuel Lamont Hawkins Jr., 31, were arrested Tuesday by members of the U.S. Marshals Service CUFFED Task Force, Huntington Police, SWAT Team, and Huntington Violent Crime Drug Task Force.
The agencies joined together for the operation in the 1700 block of Artisan Avenue to take Carey into custody.
Carey, also known as “Hoss”, was wanted by the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation for absconding from parole, as well as wanted for an active Cabell County arrest warrant for Domestic Battery.
The release said that Carey absconded from parole in January after being released from prison. He was in prison for the felony conviction for voluntary manslaughter in connection with the 2020 murder of Audra Jaclyn Perry at a Huntington bar.
Hawkins was located inside the residence and taken into custody too.
A search of the residence after the arrests, revealed multiple firearms, including one that was reported stolen from Lawrence County, Ohio, fentanyl, prescription pills, packaging and distribution materials and more than 900 pressed pilled that field-tested positive for fentanyl and MDMA, AKA ecstasy or molly.
Carey, along with his other charges, was charged with one felony count of Felon in Possession of a Firearm, and two misdemeanor counts of Possession of a Controlled Substances.
Hawkins has been charged with one felony count of Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver.
Both are being held in the Western Regional Jail.