Robert John Maddaus Jr. listens to proceedings in Lewis County Superior Court on Friday afternoon.
By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
CHEHALIS – Robert John Maddaus Jr. appeared only briefly in court on Friday in Chehalis in connection with charges related to possession of pounds of methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin, but will be back. He had to return to jail in Thurston County on his first-degree murder case.
The 40-year-old whose residence is listed in court papers as Rochester has no current address and no current income, defense attorney Bob Schroeter told a judge Friday afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court.
Maddaus’s indigent status qualified him for a court-appointed attorney.
He is charged in Lewis County with possession of each of the three drugs with intent to deliver, as well as unlawful possession of a firearm.
Charging documents in his Lewis County case describe what detectives found in a red Corvette after Maddaus and the driver, Robert S. Russell of Centralia, were stopped last November in Chehalis.
Besides the drugs in a green backpack, there was $35,092 cash, digital scales and packaging materials, court documents allege.
A nine millimeter handgun was found on the floorboard under some mats on the passenger side of the car, according to charging documents. It had nine rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber, authorities allege.
Maddaus is scheduled to return to Lewis County on Sept. 30 to make his pleas.
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Read the full story behind the police pursuit last November and why detectives say Robbie Russell was driving a red Corvette with a wanted murder suspect in the passenger seat, here.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter