UPDATE 2/27/12 @ 3:40 p.m.
HUNTINGTON, W.VA. (WSAZ) -- A preliminary hearing for a Huntington pharmacy owner was canceled Monday after the state charge against him was dismissed for further investigation.

That was the word Monday from Cabell County Magistrate Dan Goheen.

Wendall Kent Freeman owns the SafeScript Pharmacy in Huntington. On February 6, Huntington Police arrested Freeman, 53, of South Point, following a traffic stop and charged him with felony possession with intent to deliver. That was the charge that was dismissed Monday.

Freeman’s pharmacy is also under federal investigation. On February 9, agents seized 37 boxes of documents, two computer hard drives, an electronic tablet and a log book, according to the federal search warrant.

According to the affidavit, part of the investigation surrounds the whereabouts of 183,000 doses of Hydrocodone.

The pharmacy is now closed. No federal charges have been filed against Freeman.

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Court documents say tens of thousands of powerful pain pills may have gone straight to street addicts. WSAZ.com has the latest on a DEA probe that began in 2009.

The DEA led investigation focuses on the owner of SafeScript, a downtown Huntington pharmacy.

Court documents filed this month refer to a recent federal raid on the pharmacy with boxes of records and computers seized. A few days before during a traffic stop, that owner was charged with illegal drug possession and trafficking.

And he just closed the pharmacy.

“I had no idea; I'm totally shocked,” customer Diane Arthur said.

She wondered where she would now get her medication after seeing the closed sign on the tiny SafeScript Pharmacy #6 along 4th Avenue.

A federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) affidavit names Wendell Kent Freeman as the pharmacy owner; he is not a pharmacist. The affidavit details undercover purchases and drug addict interviews that point to Freeman funneling thousands of hydrocodone tablets through associates -- to street dealers.

The report notes a West Virginia Board of Pharmacy pill monitoring program for SafeScript Pharmacy # 6, showing 183,000 unaccounted pain pill doses.

Some regular customers who did not want to be on camera told us this is not your usual pharmacy. They said at SafeScript, they don't sell bandages or back braces -- only fill prescriptions with heavy security and no contact -- working behind what they say appears to be bulletproof glass.

We’re told all transactions are done through a turnstile; customers say you put the money in and the pills come out.

A Cabell County criminal complaint details Freeman involved in a Feb. 6 traffic stop near his pharmacy. Huntington Police say a search of his car found a legally armed Freeman with more than a dozen pain pills -- many in improper containers -- along with a drug ledger.

Freeman was charged with possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance.

The federal affidavit has more on that traffic stop -- noting two doctors' names on pill bottle labels found with Freeman. The document says one physician is also under federal investigation with a suspended license. And the second may soon be under investigation for possible overwhelming prescription abuse.

We talked with Freeman's attorney, Ashley Lockwood, who said he has too little information to comment at this time.

Freeman is free on bond on the traffic stop charges. No charges have been filed yet in the federal probe.

DEA agents served at search warrant at SafeScript Pharmacy #6 in the 300 block of 4th Avenue on February 9, according to documents provided to WSAZ.com by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Agents seized 37 boxes of documents, two computer hard drives, an electronic tablet and a log book, according to the federal search warrant.

The affidavit connected to the search warrant indicates the pharmacy and its owner, Wendall Kent Freeman has been under investigation since December 2008. Freeman is not a licensed pharmacist.

U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin tells WSAZ.com that this is the first time a Huntington pharmacy has been under investigation by federal authorities.

According to the affidavit, from April 2007 to May 2011 the pharmacy ordered 860,000 doses of Hydrocodone and dispensed approximately 677,000 doses of the drug. Agents are interested in what happened to the other 183,000 doses.

No federal charges have been filed in the case, but three days before the raid Huntington Police arrested Freeman on a state drug charge.

According to the federal affidavit and the criminal complaint filed in Cabell County Magistrate Court, officers on routine patrol in the area approached Freeman’s truck near 3rd Street and 4th Avenue on February 6 at approximately 10 p.m. after they observed it partially blocking the street. Officers say there was a female passenger in the front seat and that Freeman had a pistol in the drivers eat.

According to the affidavit, during a search of the pickup officers found pill bottles containing Oxymorphone, Hydrocodone, Alprazolam, several empty pill bottles and some loose pills.

Officers say the bottles had various people’s names on them including Freeman's and the woman in the car. There were also bottles with blank labels.

According to the federal affidavit one of the physician’s names located on the label was a medical practitioner under federal investigation and whose medical license is suspended.

Another label had the name of a physician who may soon be under investigation by federal and state law enforcement agents due to his unusually high volume of prescriptions for controlled substances.

Huntington Police also say they found what appeared to be a drug ledger containing names, number and dollar amounts in the vehicle.

Freeman, 53, of South Point, Ohio was charged with felony possession with intent to deliver.

The pharmacy is closed at this time according to a sign on the door. The pharmacy opened nine years ago.

WSAZ.com has a call into Mr. Freeman's attorney for comment.

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