MAN ARRESTED IN GILMER LINKED TO ALLEGED CALHOUN SCAMMING - Lusk Was "Super Friendly"

(05/16/2015)
A Minnora, Calhoun woman has reported a man arrested in Glenville on drug charges came to her house selling meat from a truck, identified as Thaxton Wholesale Meat LLC.

The man took a $110 check for meat, but failed to return to the residence with the product.

"These people were super friendly, like they knew us all our lives," she said, having purchased meat from the same man in the past.

"I just want older people in Calhoun to be aware of these kind of scams," she said.

State Police arrested Larry Lusk, 35 (left), the same man who had sold the meat, in Glenville following a disturbance at the Conrad Motel, where police discovered heroin and un-prescribed prescription pills on April 28.

Lusk was arrested again on May 12 on Grant County charges related to taking the ID of another, forgery and uttering, and is again in Central Regional Jail.

In the April criminal complaint, Virginia Lusk gave police permission to search the premises, when they discovered Larry Lusk "standing and swaying...and noticed track marks on his arm."

Police searched the ceiling tile in a bathroom and discovered a white powder described as heroin, with a spoon and needle. They also discovered Lortabs stored in an aspirin bottle.

Lusk told authorities he was a heroin addict, according to the complaint.

Lusk has a history of arrests.

Several Calhoun residents have been victimized by mobile frozen meat salespeople in the past, sometimes selling a small amount of product for an excessive cost.

Residents told the Herald that individuals representing Thaxton Wholesale Meat LLC have reportedly been involved in several Calhoun incidents.

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