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NEW CUMBERLAND - Five area residents are in custody following a drug trafficking investigation in Hancock County.
According to information provided today by Sheriff Scott Gittings, the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug Task Force executed multiple search warrants in Newell Wednesday, resulting in the arrests of five individuals and the seizure of fentanyl, crystal methamphetamine and illegal firearms.
Those taken into custody were Robert Cornman, 57, of Newell; Knight Codey Salyers, 32, of Newell; Nicholas Keller, 33, of Newell; Randy Leasure, 37, of New Cumberland; and Zackary Strub, 33, of East Liverpool.
All are being held in the West Virginia Northern Regional Jail.