An inmate previously housed at the United States Penitentiary (USP) Hazelton in Bruceton Mills will now serve additional time behind bars after he was convicted of assaulting a correctional officer on Sept. 15, 2021. After a two-day trial, a jury of 12 found Dwight F. Foster, 50, ...
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — An Eastern Panhandle judge told state lawmakers Monday that despite improvements in pay for Child Protective Services workers in his region, there is still a 400-referral backlog in connection with child abuse and neglect cases. Berkeley County Circuit Judge Steven Redding told the Joint Committee on Judiciary there have been issues of understaffing and under-trained new hires and that many of those issues are due to delayed response times, delayed referrals and no court reports filed. Redding said when the state Department of Health and Human ...
A Preston County teacher faces child abuse charges after allegedly putting duct tape over a student’s mouth and binding the child’s hands. Cassandra “Candi” Diann Sisler, 43, of Terra Alta, and a teacher at Central Preston Middle School, was charged by West Virginia State Police on Friday with four counts of child abuse resulting in injury or creating risk of injury. According to criminal complaints, the victim told law enforcement that their teacher, who they identified as Sisler, put duct tape over their mouth on Oct. 2, 3, 4, and 5 “in the middle of class.” The ...
A Preston County man is in custody after allegedly stealing a vehicle from the home of a relative, then running from police. State Police troopers in Kingwood received a complaint regarding a stolen 2001 Ford Ranger that the owner believed was taken from his Masontown residence ...
The U.S. Marshals Service is still on the hunt for a fugitive wanted for a kidnapping and attempted murder in Fairmont earlier this year. Jamie Ray Jones, 30, is the last at-large suspect in what law enforcement allege to be a “planned, targeted shooting” April 27 on Maple ...
CHARLESTON — The company going after a helicopter owned by Gov. Jim Justice’s family coal operation wants to know why it isn’t where it’s supposed to be and why it shouldn’t be entitled to take possession. Caroleng Investments Limited, parent company to the Russian mining company Mechel that bought and sold properties with Justice, is seeking the seizure over a debt now amounting to about $13 million already recognized and awarded in the federal court system. U.S. marshals were directed in a federal court filing last Thursday to move toward getting the helicopter at the ...
