The final Monongalia County grand jury of 2023 met last week at the Monongalia County Justice Center and returned 139 indictments, officially charging 132 individuals with crimes in the county. An indictment is not a finding of guilt. Indicted individuals have only been charged ...
BY MIKE NOLTING FAIRMONT — Recently released details from an April shooting in Fairmont reveal the incident involved the kidnapping of an unidentified Morgantown man. On April 27, Kenyatta Ephraim, 29, of Elyria, Ohio, allegedly fired five times from inside a car on Maple Avenue at the victim, who was standing near a vehicle. Three rounds hit the car, and another hit the rear window and rifled into a home nearby occupied by two adults and two children. Police said Ephraim, Tyreese Taylor, 29, of Lorain, Ohio, and a third suspect kidnapped a man from a home in Morgantown and ...
BY MIKE NOLTING Police made one arrest on High Street this week after witnessing a drug deal in progress. “We are probably going to be stepping up our efforts in the next several weeks in respect to placing officers into positions where they can make more of those types of arrests,” Morgantown Police Chief Eric Powell said. “We’re going to concentrate more heavily on those street-level type deals in downtown and anywhere else they might be occurring.” Officers patrolling High Street Wednesday allege they witnessed Dusty Doman, 35, of Morgantown, hand another person a ...
Corrections officers and staff members of the United States Penitentiary (USP) in Hazelton and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 420 union, came out from behind the bars and barbed wire on Friday in an effort to make the public aware of staffing issues at the ...
Morgantown Police Department is looking for a suspect and a person of interest thought to be involved in an alleged shooting at 1993 Water St. in Morgantown on Wednesday evening. MPD officers responded to the shots fired call at about 7:25 p.m. and once on scene found a male victim with ...
MORGANTOWN — Morgantown Police are investigating a shooting that happened just before 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20. Officers responded to a shots-fired call at 1993 Water Street, to find a man with gunshot wounds to his hand and back. According to a release sent out by the department, officers ...
