Charlestown, West Virginia – The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia announced that 66-year-old John Robert Coe, a retired Wood County Board of Education employee, had pleaded guilty to continuing to employ a known illegal alien. Court documents explain that a foreign national from Madagascar worked without monetary compensation at a … Read more
Update – The Wood County Sheriff’s Office has announced charges against two suspects in connection to a shooting on September 20 in the Briarwood neighborhood. According to WCSO, one suspect, Joseph V. Turpin, has already been arrested. The second suspect, Rodney D. Hill, has been charged and will be arrested pending extradition from Ohio. No … Read more
Update – The Wood County Sheriff’s Office has finally taken Charles Hess into custody. WCSO reports that Hess was taken into custody around 8 p.m. in the area of Buckner Bend Road. No other details are available at this time. Original – In West Virginia, the Wood County Sheriff’s Office is still searching for the man … Read more
An arrest has been made in connection to the deaths of James Clifton Bailey and Felicia Jean Goff in Walker, West Virginia. Law enforcement agencies cooperated to arrest 41-year-old Bradley Cantwell in the 1600 block of Blizzard Drive in Parkersburg around 4:25 p.m. without incident. A second person, Gage Robert Foutty, was arrested on unrelated … Read more
The Wood County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating a drive-by shooting in Mineral Wells, West Virginia. According to WCSO, Wood County E911 received a call reporting a drive-by shooting in the area of Post Mill Way around 4:52 p.m. on March 18, 2024. At the scene, responding deputies discovered that an unknown person or persons … Read more