CHARLESTON DETECTIVE TO ENTER PLEA

A Charleston police officer is scheduled to enter a plea May 27 on a
federal charge he let the wife of a drug ringleader keep drug money during
an investigation, according to a court order filed Wednesday by U.S.
District Judge Charles H. Haden II.

Cpl. William Hart was a lead detective in one of West Virginia's largest
drug cases against Calvin Dyess and several others. Hart began a sexual
relationship with Rachel Ursula Rader, who was Dyess' wife, two months
before Dyess and other defendants pleaded guilty in 1999.

Hart and Rader married in July 2001 but divorced three months later.
Prosecutors later learned about Hart's alleged misconduct.

Hart confirmed he let Rader keep $20,000 in drug money before February
1999, according to court records. The information filed April 11 against
Hart, however, charges that he let her keep less than $1,000.

Also in federal court:

* A Beckley bar and restaurant owner and 10 other people were indicted
this week on charges they sold cocaine or crack cocaine at the establishment.

Terry Lynn "Back Eye" Kyle, 45, of Beckley, is charged with one count of
conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack, and two counts of cocaine
distribution from his South Fayette Bar and Grill between December 2002 and
Tuesday.

"Terry Kyle is a target the Berkeley Police and State Police have been
looking at for a long time," Assistant U.S. Attorney Miller Bushong III said.

Matthew Lamar Anthony, 35, address unavailable, is named in the same
indictment. He allegedly conspired with Kyle to sell the drugs and faces
six additional counts of selling crack and one count of selling cocaine,
according to the indictment.

A grand jury also indicted the following people on related crack
distribution charges: Monique Oglesby, 27, Todd Dante McDowell, 27, Toney
Cornelius Manns, 21, Vernal Shawn Baker, 27, Shawn Dewayne Rucker, 22, and
Clevon Douglas Murray, 35; all of Beckley; Edward Allen Terry, age and
address unavailable; and Gregory Maurice Lavender, 28, and Algie Kenya
Scales, 29, addresses unavailable.

* A Detroit man pleaded guilty to a charge he possessed with intent to
distribute at least 50 grams of crack cocaine in Charleston on Oct. 10, 2000.

Lonzo "Deebo" Banks, 24, was arrested March 4 in Detroit and brought to
West Virginia to face the charges in his indictment.

He is to be sentenced July 14 by U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin.

* A Shinnston man was sentenced by Goodwin to five years probation and
ordered to pay $12,113 in restitution for Social Security fraud.

William F. Stewart, 63, pleaded guilty Jan. 17 to the charge. After a
Social Security recipient died in September 2000, the administration was
not notified. The checks continued to be deposited, and Stewart withdrew
more than $1,000 from her bank account between Sept. 23, 2000, and January
2002.

* Warren Saunders, age and address unavailable, was charged in an
information of distributing more than five grams of crack on March 6, 2001,
in Huntington.

Saunders, who also goes by the names "William McKinney," "New York Mike"
and "Charlie Brown," is scheduled to enter a plea May 12 before U.S.
District Judge Robert C. Chambers.

* Michael Shannon Thompson, age and address unavailable, was indicted on
charges he possessed with intent to distribute oxycodone and marijuana on
March 3 in Princeton.