MORGANTOWN - It’s a struggle of attrition. If 20 people sign up for police civil service testing, 10 might show up. Of that 10, five might pass the written and physical tests. Of that five, two might make it through the subsequent background checks, polygraph test and psychological ...
On Thursday, Morgantown police detectives arrested Dustin Vernon Gomes, 38, of Morgantown, for two separate breaking-and-entering incidents in the past few weeks. The first incident occurred just before 8 p.m. Aug. 31 when Gomes was allegedly observed on surveillance video entering ...
MORGANTOWN -- The method by which citizens can provide feedback to the Morgantown Police Department — be it complaint or commendation — is, at best, clunky, confusing and inefficient and, at worst, intrusive, chilling to open dialogue and nonexistent. Members of Morgantown’s ...
Within Morgantown city limits, the responsibility of maintaining order is in the hands of the Morgantown Police Department. Over the past few years, MPD has found themselves caught between a rock and a hard place trying to find a balance between protecting constitutional rights and ...
A Michigan man with several prior arrests in Monongalia County was taken into custody on Wednesday for drug possession. While on patrol, Morgantown police officer C.J. Behm noticed a Chrysler minivan with Illinois registration thought to be involved in a hit-and-run incident on June ...
Morgantown Police Chief Eric Powell recently said he’s looking to foster a change in officers’ attitudes moving forward. “There’s lots of issues right now with our department when it comes to professionalism and how they treat people and how they talk to people, and I’m in the ...