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The Braxton County Ambulance EMS director has been arrested after a county employee walked into her office and saw her trying to inject a substance between her toes, and an inventory of her office found missing and tampered with narcotics, court records said.
J. Mathes was arrested Thursday in Nicholas County by West Virginia State Police Thursday on several counts of obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation and grand larceny, according to a criminal complaint.
After the employee observed the syringe incident, an inventory was conducted of narcotics stored in her office for advanced life support, the complaint said.
The complaint said the inventory found 166 vials of morphine, 146 vials of fentanyl and 28 vials of Versed, a sedative, that had been used or partially used and 70 used syringes.
Mathes was arraigned on the charges in Nicholas County and a $25,000 cash bond was set.
Mathes has been on paid administrative leave.
State troopers and the Mountain Lakes Drug and Violent Crime Task Force are looking into the Braxton County allegations.