Drugs, weapons found at Camp County residence

By SUSAN TAFT Contributor to The Pittsburg Gazette

A night-long search of Samnang Ham’s residence on Highway 11 East yielded 22 military-type canisters with fuses, 15 rearms, approximately 35 grams of methamphetamine, approximately 485 grams of Xanax, and other assorted pills, rearm parts and ammunition. “At about 6:30 p.m. on May 11, I got a call from an investigator with the Greenville Police Department stating that Ham had been stopped on tra c by the Greenville K-9 o cer. e Greenville investigator was trying to con rm if we had any knowledge of drug activity concerning Ham. I advised the investigator that Ham had been under investigation here for about three months,” Camp County Sheri Alan McCandless said. “ e investigator advised Ham was in possession of dangerous drugs, methamphetamine and guns, one of which was stolen, when he was stopped in Greenville.

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