March 27, 2007
 
TRUE CRIME: Police Nab Two Teen Purse Snatchers
 
By Tony Rutherford
Huntington News Network Writer
 
Huntington, WV (HNN) – According to Huntington Police Department reports, officers responded between approximately 12:15 – 12:30 a.m. to a knife point robbery on the parking lot of Kroger, 19 W. 7th Street. Officers found the 18 year old woman and a male witness outside of the store.
 
After the victim and witness described the subjects, their description was broadcast by dispatch, leading to a tip that two men of similar description were in the BP lot, near the 500 block of Sixth Street.
 
Officers apprehended Matthew Scott Curtis, 19, and Dustin Kyle Clark, 18, on the west side of Sixth Street and charged both with first degree robbery. Clark faces a possession of a controlled substance charge too.
 
A kitchen knife was found near the location where the subjects were apprehended.
 
According to dispatch, the victim’s purse had been tossed on a roof in the vicinity of Fifth Street and Seventh Avenue. After notifying the Huntington Fire Department, an extension ladder was brought to the scene to retrieve the purse.
 
On March 23 at around 11 p.m. a woman standing on her porch in the 2100 block of Buffington Avenue had her purse grabbed by a man wearing a dark ball cap and dark long sleeve sweat shirt. The purse and several items from it were found outside of a residence in the 1900 block of Buffington Avenue.
 
RINGS AND THINGS TAKEN
 
Between approximately 12:00 noon and 2:30 p.m. March 25, an unknown person entered a residence in the 400 block of Riverside Drive taking a jewelry box and assorted rings, including topaz, ruby and diamond, and a diamond. Total value of the missing jewelry comes to over $2,600
 
FELON ARRESTED ON FOURTH AVENUE
 
Members of the HPD Drug Unit marked out in the 1300 block of Fourth Avenue on
 
March 21 at approximately 8:15 p.m. The unit requested a traffic stop of a red Chevrolet traveling west.
 
Officers stopped the vehicle in the 1100 block of Fourth Avenue. They found about 2.7 grams of cocaine and 4.65 grams of marijuana along with a loaded Smith and Wesson with one round in the chamber.
 
Jerry Kinney, 22, of Detroit, Michigan, was arrested as a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, for carrying a concealed dangerous weapon and for possession of a controlled substance. Tiffany Waters, 24, was also arrested, but the report did not specify the charges.
 
Officers also stopped a Plymouth on March 25 at 5:43 p.m. in the 2000 block of 7th Avenue and found a tan chunky substance in the car which tested positive for crack cocaine. Charles Runyon, 49, faces two counts of misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance.