CHARLESTON – A federal case to appoint a receivership for the historic Greenbrier Resort might be delayed for the moment, but attorneys for the Greenbrier’s loan holder are pushing back on a related state lawsuit brought by the family of U.S. Sen. Jim Justice. Attorneys for Texas-based ...
CHARLESTON - Catra Nelson, 50, of Zanesville, Ohio was sentenced to 12 years in prison with five more years of supervised release on May 28. Nelson was sentenced for, “conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and aiding and abetting the distribution of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine,” according to a release from the Department of Justice. It was reported from Jan. 2020 to March 2021, Nelson and others distributed methamphetamine to the Parkersburg area. According to the release, Nelson was responsible for distributing over 40 pounds of methamphetamines. ...
PARKERSBURG – Wood County Magistrate Court recently released the following reports: * Josie Elizabeth Grogg, 1917 Gihon Road, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to welfare fraud, $500 or less, and was sentenced to jail for one year, suspended for two years of unsupervised probation. She was assessed $176.48 and ordered to pay $5,231 restitution to the West Virginia Department of Human Services. * Shawn Richie Jones, 2033 Riser Ridge Road, Walker, pleaded guilty to driving while license is suspended or revoked and possession of a controlled substance and was assessed $562.96. As part of a ...
PARKERSBURG – The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals ruled this week that the City of Parkersburg was wrong to reduce firefighters’ pay without notice in a 2017 move municipal officials said corrected a six-year-old error. The court issued its ruling in the lawsuit, originally filed in 2018, on Wednesday, with a 4-1 majority ordering reversal of an Intermediate Court of Appeals decision siding with the city. Chief Justice Hailey Bunn dissented, saying the matter should have been decided by a jury. “It’s just very, I guess, frustrating to me that the city has chosen to take ...
PARKERSBURG – Wood County Magistrate Court released the following reports May 4: * Jason Curtis Harkness, 921 Moyer Ave., Parkersburg, was arraigned on a charge of strangulation and held on a $50,000 surety bond. * Mitchell Edward Bailey, 246 Tanner Lane, Walker, was arraigned on a charge of failure to register as a sex offender and held on a $150,000 surety bond. * Allyson Marie Tidwell, 3625 Packard St., Apt. 1, Parkersburg, was arraigned on a charge of domestic battery and released on a $3,000 surety bond. * Stacie Lynne Amick, 627 29th St., Parkersburg, was arraigned on two ...
PARKERSBURG – The following reports were released by the Wood County Magistrate Court on May 3: * Morgan Baldwin, 221 Meadow Lane, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to operation without a certificate or failure to produce a certificate and was assessed $181.48. A charge of expired registration was dismissed. * James Paul Rush, 610 Wilbur St., Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to first-offense shoplifting. He was assessed $201.48 and a civil penalty of $427.09 paid to Rural King. * Jeffrey Alan Eddy, 928 Newbanks Road, Parkersburg, pleaded guilty to speeding, 52 mph in a 35 mph zone, and was ...
