Newsroom@DominionPost.com WHEELING — Last week, the Department of Justice announced it has charged more than 14,200 defendants with firearm-related crimes during Fiscal Year 2020, despite the challenges of COVID-19 and its impact on the criminal justice process. These cases have ...
Deputies charged man with wanton endangerment A 21-year-old was arrested after he allegedly fired a gun outside an apartment at Copper Beech Town Homes. Markus O. Guy is charged with wanton endangerment by the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies responded to the call ...
A Clarksburg man was arrested on Friday after allegedly firing shots in the air outside of a bar and having cocaine on him. Alante Maratell Nelson, 28, is charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and prohibited person in possession of a firearm by the ...
One of the two men charged with the murder of West Virginia University student Eric J. Smith, 21, will remain in jail until his case is resolved after a judge denied a request to set bond on Monday. Judge Susan Tucker said she was initially inclined to set bond for Shaundarius Reeder at ...
A Morgantown man is in jail after he allegedly pointed a gun at a woman’s head while drunk. Bobby G. Lemasters, 46, is charged with domestic assault, wanton endangerment and brandishing by the Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department. On April 30, deputies were called to Lazzelle ...
Christopher Scott Phillips, the gunman involved in the North Willey Street stand-off with police Monday is charged with first-degree sexual assault and prohibited person in possession of a firearm. When officers arrived on scene, the victim, Phillips' wife, from whom he is separated, told ...