The first Monongalia County grand jury of 2023 returned 106 indictments, significantly lower than the 150 indicted in September 2022. An indictment is not a finding of guilt, but a formal felony charge issued by a grand jury stating there is enough evidence the defendant committed the ...
An alarming message about staffing in West Virginia’s jails came Thursday. “We’re absolutely working our people to death, and they’re quitting because of that,” acting Corrections Commissioner Brad Douglas said in a presentation before the House Jails and Prisons Committee. Corrections officer positions at West Virginia jails are at a 33% vacancy rate, the acting commissioner told lawmakers Thursday, with those remaining often working 12- or even 16-hour shifts. All told, at the end of December, the number of vacancies was more than 1,000. That situation has ripple ...
Two women are facing a slew of drug charges after police in Star City pulled them over for running a red light on Monday and noticed drug paraphernalia in their vehicle. After identifying the driver as Sarah Ellen Baker, 39, of Westover, and Tonya Lynn Compa, 46, as the passenger, officers ...
Morgantown police are looking for information on a stabbing incident in downtown Morgantown after being called to a hospital emergency room Sunday morning. A press release from Morgantown Police Chief Eric Powell said MPD officers were called to J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital shortly after ...
A Bruceton Mills man, Greg Snider, was found guilty earlier this week for his role in a drug distribution operation from 2018 to 2020 that spanned from Mexico to Monongalia County, as reported yesterday by The Dominion Post. In addition to Snider, 12 other West Virginians were charged as ...
MORGANTOWN – A bill once again working its way through the state Senate would allow specially trained medical professionals who accompany police SWAT teams on missions to carry weapons to defend themselves. The Senate Health Committee approved SB 83 Thursday afternoon and sent it to the ...
