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Two troopers reassigned, demoted, rape allegation added to police investigation

CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice said multi-layered investigations of the West Virginia State Police are continuing, and administration officials confirmed that some high-ranking troopers have been bumped to new positions. Justice and administration officials said no one has been fired at this point, although the longtime superintendent abruptly resigned last week. “We had some things that are just so off the chart and it’s just unbelievable, conduct that we absolutely can’t have,” Justice said during a briefing Wednesday. “We’re trying with all in us, and we’ll get ...

State police super issues apology

CHARLESTON — The new superintendent of the West Virginia State Police issued a written apology to women who might have used a training academy locker room where a video camera was revealed to have been placed. Meanwhile, an attorney representing women who used the locker room has notified the state of an impending lawsuit. The revelation of a video recording device that was placed in the locker room around 2015 was identified last week as a significant piece of a broader investigation into the West Virginia State Police. Gov. Jim Justice, who took office in 2017, called the ...

Stolen envelope led to Cahill’s resignation

CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice has a definite opinion about a bank envelope that wound up in the wrong hands on May 29, 2021. “Basically any way you cut it, that money was stolen,” the governor said. The incident the governor was discussing was a big factor in last week’s resignation of Jan Cahill, who had been West Virginia State Police superintendent for the past six years. The basic facts are relatively straightforward. But interpretations of the initial actions by the man who temporarily wound up with the money and the more recent response by authorities have been ...

Dalton civil service hearing continues in Westover

A month after Westover Civil Service Commissioners Justin White, Jessica Thompson and Robert Berryman heard the first two days of testimony in the civil service hearing for former Westover Police Officer Aaron Dalton, the third day concluded Friday after nearly eight hours of witness ...