CRIMINAL DUO FOUND AFTER TIP OFF FROM MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT, FROM WHOM THE FUGITIVE WARRANTS WERE FROM, FOR DRUG DEALING CHARGES IN MARTIN COUNTY
APRIL 30, 2020 – written by WADE QUEEN
A Lawrence County duo, father and son, who apparently had outstanding fugitive warrants from a next door county, got caught in a another next door county across the river after getting an alert from Kentucky law enforcement.
According to a press release by the Kenova, West Virginia Police Department, on Wednesday, April 29th, 2020, Kenova Police Department officers conducted a traffic stop in the city limits of Kenova.
The two occupants of the vehicle were Tommy Jude, 56, (blue shirt) and Johnny R. Jude (white tank), 24, of the Fort Gay, West Virginia / Louisa, Kentucky area, who both had fugitive from justice warrants for trafficking drugs for their arrest, issued by the Martin County Sheriff’s Department in Kentucky.
Johnny Jude was also charged with possession with intent to deliver heroin. (Distribution amount of heroin was located upon searching the vehicle)
Both Johnny Jude and Tommy Jude were arraigned in Wayne County Magistrate Court and transported to the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville, in Cabell County, West Virginia.
Both of the Judes are being held with no bond on the fugitive charges, with Tommy Jude facing extra, with a $25,000 full cash only on the heroin charge.
Kenova Polic Department offered their thanks to the Martin County Sheriff Department in Kentucky for the intelligence leading to the arrests of Johnny Jude and Tommy Jude.
That’s all good if there’s any drugs left in that bag after what people cut things with and after what the police take there’s normally not hardly any drug left in anything the police find on people They make sure just enough of some kind of controlled substance is left in it so they can ruin that person’s life or the next so many years of itand keep money coming into the county every month for this Saturday the other someone their life and and don’t forget keep everybody plea bargaining so they had to plead guilty so the county has all that money coming in every month for whatever they decide to put them on they have already decided jail isn’t the answer I really don’t know what they’re going to do around here you see the opioid epidemic on TV commercials now after it’s hit the big cities when in reality it took this place out 15-20 years ago oh well addiction is a sad thing and it is a sickness I get tired of hearing the old why don’t you just quit or why didn’t you quit if it was that easy I think me and the people would be quitting instead of losing their lives their families their jobs their home losing everything if they could just quit
Through the last 20 years of my life I have come to notice that some of the biggest hardest people I know that will give you the shirt off their back or addicts their Rich poor short tall it doesn’t matter who it takes out but just because we are addicts that doesn’t Define Who We Are everything that I have been through in my life and that’s been a lot has made me this strong person that I am today attic do not need to be treated like convicts they don’t know what’s wrong and what causes them to do the things they do either it is a horrible sickness and I would wish it on no one so please everybody start doing more praying for people instead of talking about them myself and people like me are the ones that Jesus wanted to ask help from him look at Mary Magdalene everyone try to start doing a little more praying and a little less judging and we will be a lot better off