WHEELING — Ohio County Sheriff Nelson Croft wants to apply for money from West Virginia’s opioid settlement funds to address some upcoming expenses in the sheriff’s department before he asks county commissioners for the money.

Croft appeared before commissioners during their meeting Tuesday morning. He asked for permission to submit a grant to the West Virginia First Foundation for three different initiatives.

The first initiative would be to purchase equipment to outfit the department’s K-9 unit. The second would be to purchase a license plate reader system for the department, and the third would be to hire and equip peer support personnel to work with deputies.

“We found out that (Wheeling Police) Chief Shawn Schwertfeger wrote a grant to West Virginia First, and was awarded quite a s

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