By Sarah Richardson
A Grand Jury has released indictments against 30 people in Greenbrier County on Oct. 3, 2019. Charges include multiple counts of murder, delivery of controlled substances, and more.
Thomas Dunbar and Amanda Lea Serreno have charges stemming from the January 2018 murder investigation of Chastity Faye Hamm, 24, of White Sulphur Springs.
The original story states:
“On January 18, members of the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Office, the Greenbrier County Drugs and Violent Crimes Task Force, and the West Virginia State Police responded to a deceased body found behind an uninhabited residence on Anthony Road. On January 19, the State Medical Examiner conducted an autopsy on the body and the cause of death was ruled to be a homicide. Shaela Lynn (McCoy) Abren was identified as the victim.
January 20, investigators with the Greenbrier County Sheriff’s Office discovered a second body, buried in a shallow grave’ in a wooded mountainous area of the national forest property, near the Blue Bend area,’ according to a press release distributed by Sheriff Bruce Sloan. An autopsy was performed, and the cause of death was ruled to be a homicide, as well. The body was identified at Chastity Faye Hamm.”
Dunbar pled guilty in Feb. 2018 to the first degree murder of Shaela Lynn (McCoy) Abren, and was sentenced to life in prison with mercy. Now, much-needed closure is being brought to Hamm’s homicide.
According to the indictment, “Thomas Ray Dunbar, as a principle in the first degree, and Amanda Lea Serreno, as an accessory before the fact, feloniously, willfully, maliciously, deliberately, and unlawfully did slay, kill, and murder one Chastity F. Hamm.” The document goes on to state Dunbar and Serreno, “administered to Hamm, intravenously, a combination of methamphetamine, a schedule II controlled substance, and insulin, with the intention to killing Chastity Hamm.”
Serreno is also being charged with accessory after the fact to murder after allegedly helping Dunbar clean up blood “at or near the crime scene” of the murder of Shaela McCoy.
In a separate case, Edward Alexander Smith-Allen is being charged with murder after an incident that occurred on June 7 of this year in which Alaisia Smith, 17, was fatally shot at Dorrie Miller Park in Lewisburg.
The complete list of indictments is as follows:
-Shannon Boswell, 10/26/1968, Ronceverte, Finanical exploitation of an elderly person
-Tyler Ryan Fullen, 7/5/1996, Lewisburg, Breaking and Entering, Escape
-Dustin Eric Bryant, 9/14/1991, Alderson, Failure to Register as a Sex Offender or Provide Notice of Registration Changes (x4)
-Robert Eugene Mann, 11/12/1987, Alderson, Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance – Methamphetamine
-Joseph David Angle, 4/5/1988, Quinwood, Reckless Fleeing from an Officer,
-Amanda Marie Lucas, 9/28/1987, Ronceverte, Burglary
-Sydney Raquel Keys, 10/1/1992, Lewisburg, Shoplifting- Third or Subsequent Offense
-Kevin Eugene McCoy, 9/21/1966, Lewisburg, Breaking and Entering, Grand Larceny
-Amanda Lea Serreno, 4/8/1988, Alderson, Murder, Attempted Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Attempt to Kill or Injure by Poison, Concealment of a Deceased Human Body, Conspiracy to Deliver a Controlled Substance, Accessory After the Fact to Murder, Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance – Methamphetamine
-Brett Wayne Altizer, 10/20/1967, Quinwood, Burglary, Domestic Assault
-Roger Howard Lawhorn, Jr., 6/24/1981, White Sulphur Springs, Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance -Methamphetamine, Conspiracy to Deliver a Controlled Substance- Methamphetamine
-Daniel Buchanan, 12/30/1979, Bridgewater, Virginia, Harassment
-Charlie Gilmer Workman, 4/23/1976, Lewisburg, Solicitation of a minor via computer (x3), Use of Minor in Filming Sexually Explicit Conduct (x2), Distribution and Exhibition of Material Depicting Minor Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct, Use of Obscene Matter with Intent to Seduce a Minor (x2), Distribution and Display to Minor of Obscene Matter (x2)
-Thomas Dunbar, 10/26/1980, Gap Mills, Murder, Attempted Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder, Attempt to Kill or Injure by Poison, Concealment of a Deceased Human Body
-Michael Wayne Permelia, 11/10/1972, White Sulphur Springs, Failure to Provide Notice of Registration Changes
-Calvin Michael Bennett, 7/2/1956, Rainelle, Sexual Abuse in the First Degree (x2), Sexual Abuse by a Parent, Guardian or Person in Position of Trust (x2)
-Ethan Travis Quinn, 12/6/1999, Ronceverte, Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance – Methamphetamine
-Adam Lewis Reynolds, 5/25/1973, Ronceverte, Breaking and Entering, Petit Larceny
-Daniel Crawford Wilcox, 6/27/1982, Lewisburg, Unlawful Assault
-Wade G Holliday, 10/24/1999, Caldwell, Malicious Wounding
-Larry R Jennings, 10/24/1951, Alderson, Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance – Marijuana, Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance – Buprenorphine, Delivery of a Controlled Substance – Buprenorphine- within 1000 feet of a school
-Nicole Kathleen Lewis, 11/5/1986, White Sulphur Springs, Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Misrepresentation, Fraud, Forgery, Deception or Subterfuge
-Anthony Avila-Rivera, 2/6/1994, Ronceverte, Wanton Endangerment (x5)
-Edward A Smith-Allen, 12/8/1999, Beckley, Murder
-Elizabeth Jane Justice, 6/12/1971, Ronceverte, Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance – Methamphetamine
-Nicole Sade Davis, 6/4/1986, Lewisburg, Malicious Wounding
-David Wayne Trent, 12/11/1983, Ronceverte, Escape
-Gary Ray Blankenship, 7/2/1986, Ronceverte, Malicious Wounding, Attempted 1st Degree Murder
-Allen David Ailstock, 2/18/1971, Rainelle, Malicious Wounding
-Tara L Woody, 2/15/1982, Lewisburg, Forgery (x2), Uttering (x2).
