Former Assistant Energy Secretary owns ‘Crack Palace’ at center of Belview County cocaine raid
Multiple well-connected sources say Robert "Bob" Gentile, 82, was on the scene when the Belmont County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Interdiction Unit pinched three overly stimulated freaks at his home.
The Belview County Sheriff’s Office and supporting agencies executed a routine drug interdiction warrant in Flushing, Ohio, on June 11.
According to media reports, the authorities pinched three suspects operating in a suspected cocaine manufacturing laboratory:
Kody Vinka, 35, of Bellaire, Ohio
Lewis Dunn, 37, of Flushing, Ohio
Stacy Brown-Jarowski, 43, of St. Clairsville, Ohio
According to WTRF, Belmont County Sheriff James G. Zusack said the arrests “concluded a lengthy investigation.”
It’d be troubling if the raid served as a capstone on the investigation and that turn of phrase wasn’t an intentional sleight of hand, considering media reports have skipped over the wildest part of the story.
The raid, which occurred at 72581 Uniontown Flushing Rd, is well known in Belmont County drug circles as “Crack Palace.”
It’s also owned by 82-year-old former United States Assistant Energy Secretary Robert H. Gentile, a lifetime Ohio Republican.
