Records: Woman charged after found at motel room with her 4-year-old child, meth, fentanyl


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Kanawha County court records say Amanda G. Huffman, 33, of Cross Lanes was charged with child neglect and a possession charge on Wednesday after a deputy found her in a room at the Roadway Inn. (West Virginia Regional Jail)

Court records said a woman faces charges after she was found in a motel room in Cross Lanes with her 4-year-old child and methamphetamine, fentanyl and drug paraphernalia.

Amanda G. Huffman, 33, of Cross Lanes was charged Wednesday with child neglect and drug possession after a deputy located her in a room at the Roadway Inn, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

The complaint said the deputy was responding after receiving a report from Metro 911 about a domestic situation at an apartment in Cross Lanes. Before the deputy arrived at the scene, the officer was told by dispatchers that the woman and her son had left and were at a motel.

According to the complaint, the woman allowed the deputy to come into the motel room. The complaint said she appeared to be very jittery and tried to cover up items on the bed while she was sitting there and being asked questions.

The deputy reported seeing a large piece of foil she had covered up, a rolled marijuana “blunt” by her feet on the bed and a broken glass pipe that appeared to have been smoked from already. The officers said the pipe appeared to be a meth pipe.

Multiple cigarillo packets and straws were within reach of the child, the complaint said.

The complaint said a deputy also saw a partially opened drawer in the room that had money, cigarillo wrappers, a marijuana grinder and a small round clear plastic case with an unknown white substance. The substance later tested positive for fentanyl and meth, the complaint said.

Huffman was taken into custody, and she is currently being held at South Central Regional Jail on $7,500 cash only bond.