Arlo Whitehead Romano, 44, of Morgantown, one of two men convicted of the May 2022 murder of Matthew Moore, 46, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Monday afternoon before Judge Paul Gwaltney in Monongalia County Circuit Court. In February, Romano entered a plea of guilty to murder ...
Two men have now been convicted of the May 2022 murder of Matthew Moore on Round Bottom Road in Monongalia County - and one of them will spend the rest of his life behind bars. The co-defendants, Arlo Romano, 44, of Morgantown and Cleotis Cortez-Paul Eppes Jr, 49, of the Detroit area, ...
Cleotis Cortez-Paul Eppes Jr., 49, of the Detroit, Mich., area, appeared nervous as he entered the courtroom of the Honorable Paul W. Gwaltney on the third floor of the Monongalia County Justice Center Tuesday afternoon. Shortly after 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, a jury of nine women and three men ...
The fate of Cleotis Eppes, 49, the Detroit area man accused in the May 2022 murder of Matthew Moore, now lies in the hands of the 12 men and women of the jury as they begin their deliberations Tuesday morning at the Monongalia County Justice Center. Eppes is charged with murder in the first ...
Prosecutors Gabrielle “Gabe” Mucciola and Brandon Benchoff rested their case Friday afternoon in the first-degree murder trial of Cleotis Eppes, confident they presented enough evidence over three days of testimony to meet the state’s burden of proof for a guilty verdict. Defense ...
The trial for one of the men accused in the May 2022 murder of Matthew Moore continued Wednesday with opening statements from attorneys and testimony from 10 people. Cleotis Cortez-Paul Eppes Jr., 49, of the Detroit area, also known as “Ghost,” faces charges for first degree murder, ...