After two weeks of disruption because of positive COVID-19 tests by employees of the Monongalia County Justice Center, in-person services will resume for magistrate and circuit court on Monday. Monongalia County Magistrate Court will return to normal staffing, hold hearings and offer ...
Tips from community led to apprehension Tips from the community led sheriff’s deputies to a Monongalia County man suspected of two burglaries. Larry T. Heaster, 24, is charged with two counts of burglary by the Mon County Sheriff’s Office. He was arrested without incident by Deputy B. Broker about 11:45 a.m. at Mon Health Medical Center, after a tip from a member of the community, Sheriff Perry Palmer said. Palmer said he was thankful for the numerous tips that helped them apprehend Heaster. Heaster is accused of breaking into a house on Falling Run Road at 8:42 ...
MORGANTOWN -- Two men from the greater Detroit area were arrested by the Mon Metro Drug Task Force after allegedly finding more than a pound of drugs in their hotel room. Matthew Thomas, 26, of Roseville, Mi., and Virgil Johnson, 27, of Oak Park, Mi., are each charged with possession of a ...
A Morgantown woman is accused of threatening people with knives and scissors and throwing hot candle wax on one. Ruth L. Johnson, 38, is charged with brandishing a deadly weapon, assault, obstructing an officer and refusal to give fingerprints by the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Office. On Sunday, deputies were sent to an apartment complex on Van Voorhis Road, near West Run Road, because a woman — later determined to be Johnson — was outside the complex waving knives and a pair of scissors at “anybody close to her,” according to a criminal complaint. When a deputy ...
KINGWOOD — An Aurora man is charged with the April 14 attempted robbery of the Terra Alta Shop ‘n Save. Seth Edwin Feather, 33, is accused of attempting to rob the store with a cane. He was in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail Tuesday in lieu of $5,000 bond. According to the criminal ...
State Police at Kingwood DeBerry, Steve Eric Jr., 45, of Reedsville, fleeing, obstructing an officer, assaulting an officer, speeding, July 24; Trooper Anglin. Preston Sheriff Hodgkins, Matthew Eric, 51, of Tunnelton, disorderly conduct, July 27; Deputy Martin. Kingwood Police McMillen, Carl Allen, 52, of Kingwood, domestic battery, July 17; Officer McNemar. Mon Sheriff Perdue, Christopher Scott, 27, of Morgantown, two counts possession of a controlled substance, July 26; Deputy Ward. Robinson, Jack Douglas II, 30, of Morgantown, second offense shoplifting, ...
