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Homeless man arrested after stealing change from cars in order to eat

A homeless man was arrested after a deputy allegedly caught him breaking into a vehicle at University Motors and admitted he’s been doing so for several weeks in an interview.Jereme D. Shrewsbury, 36, is charged with auto tampering and petit larceny by the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department.Just before 2 a.m. Thursday, Deputy J. Alexander was called to University Motors on Don Knotts Boulevard, according to Sheriff Perry Palmer.An employee on scene was monitoring cameras and had a visual on the suspect, according to a criminal complaint.As he was coming over the hill, Alexander ...

Babbling Brook Estates shooting victim identified

The woman shot and killed at Babbling Brook Estates on Wednesday has been identified as 51 year old Tamatha Pillo. According to Monongalia County Sheriff Perry Palmer, her stepfather, Donald Davis, 73, reported a domestic incident which resulted in Pillo, his stepdaughter, sustaining a single gunshot wound to the chest with a .380 caliber pistol. Pillo was taken to J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital by Mon EMS where she died of her wound. The incident is still under a "full blown" investigation and additional details are not being released at this time, Palmer said. The department ...

Maryland man charged with trying to run over Masontown officer

KINGWOOD — Bond is set at $600,000 for a Maryland man accused of knocking a Masontown Police officer to the ground and nearly running him over with a car last year. Thomas Bradley Upole Jr., 24, was booked into the Tygart Valley Regional Jail Wednesday. He is charged with two felonies: ...

Missing teenager, Amiya Hoopengarner, found

Amiya Hoopengarner’s dad picked his daughter up early Wednesday morning.A woman whose son is friends with Hoopengarner knew her location and told his mother, who called Hoopengarner’s father, Chief Deputy Al Kisner of the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department said.Officers with the ...

Preston County Commissioners meet with Attorney General over use of FCC Hazelton as quarantine space for prisoners

KINGWOOD — The U.S. Bureau of Prisons on Wednesday declined to say when prisoners will be moved to Hazelton’s federal prison for quarantine.“For safety and security reasons, we are unable to provide information about upcoming movements,” a spokesman said. Preston County Commissioners said “options are on the table,” after meeting behind closed doors with State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on FCC Hazelton being used as a quarantine site for federal prisoners.Morrisey met with commissioners by phone Wednesday. After 37 minutes in closed session for “legal matters,” ...

Pennsylvania drug charge leads police to a car stolen in West Virginia

KINGWOOD — A Terra Alta man wanted for failing to return a relative’s car was arrested on drug charges in Pennsylvania.Travis Dean Teets, 35, was arrested Jan. 22 in Westmoreland County, Pa.He was returned to West Virginia and arraigned on a charge of unlawful taking of a vehicle this week.According to West Virginia State Police Senior Trooper L.S. Hall, on Jan. 22, a woman reported to police that Teets, to whom she is related, borrowed her car. They agreed it would be returned by 3 p.m.Teets called her and said he would return it by 5 p.m., the victim said, but he did not. She ...