Buchanan County Grand Jury returns 273 indictments

The Buchanan County Grand Jury has returned 273 indictments against 37 people covering a broad range of drug-related, sexual and violent crimes. The Buchanan County Commonwealth’s Attorney Nikki Stiltner said the grand jury returned the indictments Monday after months of investigations. The investigations included one in the Rowe area involving three suspects accused of drug trafficking, money laundering and deploying fentanyl as a weapon of terrorism. Another investigation centered around accusations of sexual crimes against a child younger than 13, with charges of rape, abduction and aggravated sexual battery, and further investigations also dove into alleged cases of animal cruelty, assaults on officers and grand larceny of motor vehicles.