Sunday, January 23, 2011

Three arrested for bringing heroin into state | Charleston Daily Mail



CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Weirton woman and two Pennsylvania residents were arrested for allegedly transporting heroin they planned to sell at West Virginia State University in Institute.

State Police were on the lookout Sunday night after troopers at the South Charleston detachment received a tip concerning two women identified as "Alicia" and "Kristen," who were on their way to the Charleston area from Pittsburgh in a gold or tan Dodge Stratus. They planned to deliver heroin and prescription drugs, according to a complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.


The tipster warned that a dog would be in the vehicle with the women but that they would be in the area within a half hour. Trooper M.J. Napier was on patrol Sunday night when the tip came in and began watching the southbound lanes of Interstate 79 for the vehicle.


A tan Dodge Stratus passed by at 11:10 p.m. Sunday and Napier followed. The license plate was not illuminated, as mandated by state law, and there was a lot of movement inside the car from both passengers and a dog.


He stopped the car and identified the driver as Alicia Ciccarelli, 25, of Weirton, accompanied by two others, Rahman Terry, 33, of Keysrock, Pa., and Kristen McClure, 23, of Burgettstown, Pa.

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Photos: Alicia Ciccarelli, top, of Weirton, along with Rahman Terry, center, and Kristen McClure, of Pennsylvania, were arrested by State Police last week following a tip they were transporting heroin from Pittsburgh to West Virginia State University. As of today, they were still incarcerated at the South Central Regional Jail pending $100,000 bond.