Jackson County Businessman Arrested

{Cottageville, West Virginia}...Jackson County businessman Lewis Stephens, who owns JE Stephens Farm Machinery in Cottageville, has been charged with two felonies, including delivery of a controlled substance and possession with intent to deliver. Jackson County Deputies say Stephens was trading prescription pills for sexual favors. Deputies think there may be as many as 12 women involved in the case. An informant gave deputies specific details of a side computer room of the business where the sex and pill deliveries occurred. The informant assisted police Wednesday night in a controlled drug exchange at the boat ramp in Millwood. The informant called Stephens and arranged the meeting, and Stephens demanded the informant also bring a friend to join. A detective posed as the friend from a nearby parking lot chatting with Stephens from a cell phone less than 10 feet from his pickup truck. Deputies then moved in and arrested Stephens after finding Hydrocodone tablets and a prescription bottle.