CRIME & SAFETY
West Virginia State Police urges compliance after multiple violent incidents this week
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — After Lincoln County Senior State Trooper Travis Hurley was stabbed multiple times and hospitalized by a suspect who ran from a traffic stop, State Police Superintendent Col. Jack Chambers said this just adds to a troubling trend within the past year. Even within the past week, a man was killed in Greenbrier County after troopers said he refused to drop a knife.
West Virginia and Ohio law enforcement looking for man who left home confinement and wanted on escape charges
West Virginia and Ohio officials are looking for a man that left home confinement and is currently wanted on escape charges. Derick Paul Fore, 50-years-old from Williamstown WV, was released from jail and placed on home confinement while awaiting court proceedings from a June 2023 indictment for strangulation, malicious assault, kidnapping, sexual abuse in the […]
Philadelphia man sentenced for selling drugs in Buckhannon
BUCKHANNON, W.Va (WDTV) - A Philadelphia man has been sentenced to nearly 15 years in prison after distributing drugs in Buckhannon. Sean Christopher Adams, 35, was sentenced to 175 months in federal prison for the distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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