BY ROGER SMITH
MOUNTAIN CITIZEN

INEZ — A man was arrested Monday after allegedly threatening on the phone to bring a gun to a local medical clinic if he did not receive his medication, then making a second call to say, “Run, everybody, run.”

Martin County Sheriff’s Deputy Tyler Lafferty says 70-year-old Robert Meade Jr. of Inez made the first call to the Martin County Community Health Clinic at 1:21 p.m. and the second call at 1:40 p.m. demanding the medication Gabapentin.

Lafferty arrested Meade at 2:44 p.m. at the mouth of Coldwater, where the deputy located a 9mm gun inside Meade’s vehicle.

Police also served an outstanding warrant on Meade that alleges he entered a local business in 2011 carrying a baseball bat and saying, “I’m going to use this on her [manager].”

Meade is lodged at the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center and faces two counts of terroristic threatening and one count of operating on a suspended or revoked license.