A cast member of the MTV reality show Buckwild was arrested Monday and is now facing drug charges in West Virginia.

Twenty-four-year-old Salwa Amin was arraigned in Nicholas County Magistrate Court on felony charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, according to Yahoo! News. Amin is currently being held at the Central Regional Jail on a $200,000 bond.

State police said a multi-agency task force arrested Amin and two others late Sunday at a home in Summersville after receiving a tip from an informant. Officers were said to have found both oxycodone pills and heroin.

Amin did not want to talk to the media and comment on his arrest, according to Administrative Sgt. Rick Drake. MTV spokeswoman Candice Ashton said the network does not have any comment.

Buckwild debuted on MTV on Jan. 3. The show follows the lives of nine young adults living in Sissonville and Charleston, W. Va. They all create their own fun, unique ways of enjoying the rural town that they live in.

The MTV series drew criticism for what some see as a negative portrayal of youth in West Virginia. Joe Manchin, a senator in West Virginia, reportedly wrote a letter to MTV demanding that the show be canceled before it aired.

"As a proud West Virginian, I am writing to formally request that you put a stop the travesty called Buckwild," the democratic senator wrote in a letter obtained by the The Washington Post. "Instead of showcasing the beauty of our state, you preyed on young people, coaxed them into shameful behavior- and now you are profiting from it. That is just wrong. This show plays to ugly, inaccurate stereotypes about the people of West Virginia."

John Stevens, the show's executive producer, defended the show in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.

"It's not like looking at a train wreck," Stevens explained. "There is a certain 'coolness' to it. I think it's going to get people talking and it might change people's perspectives."

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