{"id":6913,"date":"2011-06-17T15:53:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T22:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2011-06-18T23:33:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T06:33:09","slug":"breaking-news-alleged-big-drug-dealers-arrested-one-is-salkum-gunshot-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=6913","title":{"rendered":"Breaking news: Alleged big drug dealers arrested; one is Salkum gunshot victim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Denise Salts, left, and Venus Hamilton wait their turn to go before a judge on Friday afternoon.<\/p><\/div>\n

This news story was updated at 6:30 p.m. on\u00a0 Friday June 17, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker
\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHEHALIS – The sheriff’s office says it arrested two of the main narcotics distributors in East Lewis County yesterday, and one of them is Denise R. Salts – the woman who was shot in the face when her boyfriend and two others were slain last August.<\/p>\n

Salts, 52, of Glenoma, was arrested for delivery of methamphetamine after sheriff’s deputies and their SWAT team served a search warrant yesterday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. Also arrested for the same offense was Venus D. Hamilton, 47, of Morton, Chief Civil Deputy Stacy Brown said today.<\/p>\n

Brown said members of the Lewis County Narcotics Task Force conducted several undercover drug buy operations during May and June in East Lewis County.<\/p>\n

Salts was the lone survivor when in the night on August 21, her live-in boyfriend David J. West Sr., his 16-year-old son and a friend from Mineral were fatally shot inside a Salkum-Onalaska area home off of Gore Road.<\/p>\n

John Allen Booth Jr. is charged with her attempted murder, murder, attempted extortion and unlawful possession of a firearm. His trial is scheduled for August. His former cell mate Ryan J. McCarthy, 29, is also charged in the case.<\/p>\n

Brown didn’t say when or where the arrests were made yesterday.<\/p>\n

She did say both individuals were taken into custody without incident and booked into the Lewis County Jail.<\/p>\n

Hamilton is shown as being booked at 3:21 p.m. yesterday and Salts was booked at 12:49 a.m. today, according to the jail roster.<\/p>\n

Also yesterday in East Lewis County, a 48-year-old Randle man was arrested at his home following undercover purchases of marijuana made during June, Brown said.<\/p>\n

At about 5 p.m., deputies searched David E. Bellamy’s residence on the 200 block of Skinner Road and turned up almost 42 grams of suspected marijuana, scales and what Brown called a ledger.<\/p>\n

When Bellamy arrived home just after 6:30 p.m., he was taken into custody without incident, she said. He was booked for three counts of delivery of marijuana, according to Brown.<\/p>\n

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CORRECTION:\u00a0 David J. West Sr.’s name was corrected to reflect he is the senior West, not junior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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