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A Chehalis man charged earlier this week for allegedly having a bag full of drugs and a loaded gun is now accused of selling heroin.
Jeremy D. Barnes, 27, was charged Wednesday afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court with two counts of delivery of heroin. He was granted $10,000 bail.
He is also being held on $25,000 bail on charges of second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance filed Monday.
Barnes was arrested Sunday evening after police responded to the 500 block of South Market Boulevard to a report of a possible drunken driver.
The officer found Barnes in the passenger seat of the vehicle with his hand in a backpack. Barnes was arrested on an outstanding warrant along with a woman. None of the vehicle’s occupants would claim the backpack.
Officers took custody of the bag as abandoned property and inventoried its contents, finding $2,750 in cash, 12 Xanax pills, 12 Suboxone strips, scales with brown residue, a police scanner, two full bags of unused needles, “four tubes used to ingest drugs” with residue, and a Glock Model 21 with a loaded magazine.
Barnes reportedly told police some of the contents of the bag were his, but denied knowing a gun was in the bag.
He made his first appearance on the drug and gun possession charges Monday.
On Wednesday, he was in court again on the new heroin delivery charge.
Court documents allege that on two dates, one between September and October 2015 and a second between May and June of this year, Barnes sold heroin to a confidential informant working for the county’s Joint Narcotic Enforcement Team.
Barnes is scheduled to make his next court appearance on all four charges Thursday.
