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Three people were arrested recently in connection with the March death of a Romney woman from a suspected Fentanyl overdose.
Young remained jailed Tuesday at the Potomac Highlands Regional Jail in lieu of $25,000 bond and Trisdale is jailed there on bond totaling more than $36,000. No information was available on Young.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The former supervisor of corrections officers at West Virginia’s Southern Regional Jail will be sentenced on Thursday. Chad Lester, 35, was a Lieutenant in the Southern ...
Chad Lester was convicted in January of three felony obstruction of justice charges related to the March 2022 attack on Southern Regional ... by inmates who described conditions at the jail ...
An inmate at the Botetourt-Craig Regional Jail was discovered hanging from a vent in his cell Tuesday in what was the second death in the same day at the facility. William C. Cash, 39, was found ...
FILE - The Southern Regional Jail in Beaver, W.Va., is seen in this undated photo. (Rick Barbero/The ... to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by inmates who described conditions at the jail ...
Former Lt. Chad Lester was convicted in January of three felony obstruction of justice charges related to the March 2022 attack on Southern Regional Jail inmate Quantez Burks.
A federal judge has sentenced a former West Virginia state corrections officer to 17½ years in prison for what a Charleston jury found to be his role in the death of a Beckley man incarcerated at ...
According to a press release from the United States Department of Justice, former Lieutenant at the Southern Regional Jail in the Beaver area of Raleigh County, 35-year-old Chad Lester, of Odd, was ...
Chad Lester was convicted in January of three felony obstruction of justice charges related to the March 2022 attack on Southern Regional Jail inmate ... action lawsuit filed by inmates who described ...