A sexual assault case involving a former WVU fraternity member will move forward to be heard by a 2023 Monongalia County grand jury. According to court records, in December, second degree sexual assault charges were brought against Joseph William McMasters, 22, of Broomall, Pa., in ...
A Morgantown man is being held at North Central Regional Jail after an alleged fight with two female victims who said he stole prescription pills and jewelry from their apartment. Morgantown police officers were dispatched to a Washington Street apartment after a caller reported a male had ...
BY MIKE NOLTING A man wanted in the murder of his estranged wife in a Pittsburgh suburb was arrested on I-79 near Morgantown Monday morning. Members of the U.S. Marshals Mountain State Task Force, the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department, the West Virginia State Police, the Westover Police Department and the Star City Police Department arrested William Fitzgerald, 50, of Pennsylvania, on I-79 northbound, near the Star City exit. Fitzgerald is accused of the stabbing death of his estranged wife, Tarea Washington, 47, of Arlington, Pa. She was found handcuffed and stabbed ...
One police search led to another for a New York man who is now facing drug charges in Morgantown after a police investigation into a separate crime revealed a large amount of pre-packaged methamphetamine at his residence. On Jan. 6, detectives with the Morgantown Police Department (MPD) ...
Seth Chance Johnson, 22, of Albright, is facing charges for making threats of terroristic acts after police say he made threats toward Bruceton School in Bruceton Mills on Jan. 4. According to a criminal complaint filed by Preston County Deputy M.A. Lewis, school officials provided law ...
Morgantown resident George Tanios, who is pleading guilty to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, has been named in a civil suit by the fiancée of an officer who died a day later. Sandra Garza, the partner of late officer Brian Sicknick, filed the lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and two protesters accused of collaborating to attack police with very strong pepperspray — Tanios and his longtime friend, Julian Khater. Sicknick Friday, on the two-year anniversary of the Capitol riot, was posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, the ...
