On May 1, 2013 at approximately 8:08 a.m. Sergeant J. H. Thaxton of the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office received an alarm through his license plate reader that a stolen vehicle had just passed. He was in the Davis Creek area of U.S. 119. The stolen vehicle was traveling north on U.S. 119. Sergeant Thaxton had been on a traffic stop when the alarm sounded. He caught up with and stopped the vehicle at MacCorkle Avenue in Charleston.
The license plate reader is a system of cameras and a computer that constantly scans for license plates within view. It is mounted to Sergeant Thaxton’s vehicle. As it reads license plates it checks national and local databases for stolen and wanted records.
The vehicle was a 2007 Honda Accord stolen from Charleston on April 30, 2013. The driver, Ashley Nichole Wilkinson (24 years old of Cross Lanes) was driving. The front passenger was Phillip Lane Daughtery, Jr. (39 years old, of Suwanee, GA), and Anthony Ross Harmon (25 years old of Charleston) was also in the vehicle. The vehicle was stolen from Harmon’s grandmother.
Sergeant Thaxton charged Wilkinson and Harmon with possession of a stolen vehicle, a felony. Daughtery was charged with joyriding, a misdemeanor. The Charleston Police Department is continuing the investigation into the stolen vehicle.
Attached are the mug shots of the three arrested subjects. As is always the case in criminal matters, the charges against the subjects are merely accusations. They are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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Corporal B. D. Humphreys
Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office
301 Virginia Street East,
Charleston WV 25301
304-357-0732 / 304-951-7328
