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A man arrested on Crummies Creek last November for huffing gasoline has been arrested by Raleigh County authorities. He is incarcerated in Southern Regional Jail.
Justin Lee McKinney, 22, has been charged with obstructing, battery, assault, and weapons brandishing. His bond is $7,500.
 Last fall, police responded to numerous 911 calls over several days to the Right Fork of Crummies Creek, where McKinney (left) was reportedly standing by the road with a jug of gasoline, huffing the substance.
McKinney was charged with "breathing an intoxicating substance," and incarcerated in Central Regional Jail.
The criminal complaint says the officer, J. B. Hunt, "observed this subject...squatted down with a white in color plastic container in his hands and repeatedly bringing...to his face, sniffing same."
The officer described the smell of gasoline, questioning McKinney about the contents of the container, after which McKinney replied, "You know what it is," according to the criminal complaint.
Workers for the WV Department of Highways and a worker for Frontier Communications were among several complainants regarding the man's threatening behavior.
McKinney reportedly run his 43-year-old mother from her camper dwelling in November, and she slept in the woods for several days.
Neighbors indicated McKinney has knocked-out the windows of his mother's camper and destroyed property.
During one police investigation, McKinney had been in an altercation with his uncle Tom Hardway, a pipe was reportedly used as an instrument in the affray.
Authorities apparently started an effort to do a mental hygiene commitment on McKinney, but that effort failed without a complainant, indicating local residents were too fearful to give testimony.
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