{"id":7010,"date":"2011-06-22T22:14:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T05:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2011-06-22T22:14:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T05:14:23","slug":"news-brief-big-drug-dealers-in-court-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=7010","title":{"rendered":"News brief: “Big” drug dealers in court tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

CHEHALIS – Denise R. Salts is expected in Lewis County Superior Court tomorrow to make her plea on a charge of delivery of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n

Salts, 52, and a Morton woman were labeled two of the main narcotics distributors in East Lewis County after they were arrested when sheriff’s deputies and their SWAT team served a search warrant last Thursday.<\/p>\n

When she went before a judge the next day, her attorney said she only one previous interaction with “the system”; Salts was a successful graduate of drug a number of years ago, defense attorney Bob Schroeter said.<\/p>\n

Salts is the same woman who was shot in the face when her boyfriend and two others were slain last August inside a Salkum-Onalaska area home.<\/p>\n

She and\u00a0 Venus D. Hamilton, 47, of Morton, were both charged with the same offense and both released on $5,000 bail on Friday.<\/p>\n

The arrests followed undercover drug buys earlier this month, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n

An informant was given $40 to purchase two “quarters” and allegedly bought them from Hamilton near Riffe Lake, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n

The same day, an informant was given a $20 bill to buy methamphetamine from Salts.<\/p>\n

The informant went to the Glenoma home where Salts lives and was “surveilled” as they went inside, according to charging documents.<\/p>\n

Afterward, the informant said told the detective they asked the man who also lives there if they could purchase “a twenty” and he replied, “You know how it works”, according to the documents.<\/p>\n

The man turned to Salts, inquired if they had “a twenty”, and left the room while Salts handed over a small baggie of a substance that field-tested positive for meth, the documents allege.<\/p>\n

Salts survived the August 21 shootings that left her live-in boyfriend David J. West Sr, his 16-year-old son and a friend from Mineral dead in a house off 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 the end of August. His former cell mate Ryan J. McCarthy, 29, is also charged in the case.<\/p>\n

Salts’s arraignment is scheduled for tomorrow morning. Hamilton’s is set in the afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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