May 25, 2018: Update to Cell Phone Theft
The male in the cell phone theft video has contacted our agency and is cooperating with Deputies at this time. Thank you for helping us spread the word this afternoon! Sgt
View ArticleMay 29, 2018: K9 Track Leads to Arrest on B&E
On Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at approximately 3:28 AM Metro 911 received calls from a security company watching suspects breaking into an American Electric Power yard near Nitro, WV. Deputy Sheriffs were...
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June 5, 2018: DUI Checkpoint Scheduled
Attached is an announcement from our Highway Safety Coordinator, Lieutenant J. H. Thaxton. A sobriety checkpoint is scheduled for Friday, June 8, 2018, from 7:00 p.m. to midnight on Us. 60 near...
View ArticleJune 5, 2018: DUI Causing Injuries near Belle
Around 9:00 p.m. last night Deputies were dispatched to a two-vehicle crash on Warrior Way near Belle. Both drivers were transported by Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority personnel to an...
View ArticleHuman Remains recovered – Mink Shoals
On June 12, 2018 volunteers from West Virginia K-9 Search and Rescue were utilizing cadaver dogs to search a particular area of Phyliss Drive, in Mink Shoals. The West Virginia Search and Rescue...
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June 16, 2018: DOH Truck Stolen
Saturday, June 16, 2018 at 12:00 pm. a female made entry to the DOH garage in the 2200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue and stole several items including a leaf blower. She also stole a DOH shirt (green...
View ArticleJune 18, 2018: Stolen Vehicle Pursuits End in Two Arrests
On June 17, 2018, just after 3:30 a.m., Deputies with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the Speedway Convenience Store in Sissonville, WV for a stolen WV DOT Courtesy Patrol...
View ArticleJune 18, 2018: Driver of Stolen Vehicle Wanted
On Sunday, June 17, 2018 Deputy K. B. Daugherty saw a stolen 1986 Dodge Ram pickup truck pass his patrol vehicle. He pursued the truck, which was stolen last Friday, from Cooper’s Creek near Elkview,...
View ArticleJune 18, 2018: Stolen DOH Truck Suspect
Over the weekend a Division of Highways truck was stolen from one of their facilities on Pennsylvania Avenue. The suspect was seen on surveillance footage and the public was asked to assist with...
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June 18, 2018: Missing Person from Elkview
Jeffrey Allen Young, 35 of Elkview, has been missing since June 13, 2018. He was reported missing today by his grandmother with whom he lives. His classmates at the Garnett Career Center in Cross...
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July 11, 2018: DUI Checkpoint Scheduled
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View ArticleJuly 16, 2018: Shooting in Hernshaw
This afternoon a 21 year old man arrived at Charleston Area Medical Center’s General Division with a gunshot wound to his abdomen and hand. He said he had been sitting in his car when he was shot in...
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July 17, 2018: Arrest for Domestic Violence
On Monday, July 16, 2018 around 2:45 a.m. a 911 call regarding a domestic dispute was dispatched to Deputies Marcum. The disturbance occurred in the 200 block of Tower Drive near Campbell’s Creek....
View ArticleJuly 17, 2018: Arrest for Child Neglect Causing Injury
A mother has been charged with child neglect resulting in injury, a felony, after her ten month old baby was hospitalized and tested positive for ingesting methamphetamine. Miranda G. Taylor, 24 of...
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July 23, 2018: Arrest in Eskdale Shooting
Last night a shooting was reported on Sandy Lane in Eskdale (Cabin Creek), WV. Mark Allen Auber II (32 of Eskdale) called 911 to report shooting his brother, Michael Anthony Auber. The two were...
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Missing child
Lachaela ”Shay” Putnick, 14 years old of Charleston, WV has been in custody of WV Child Protective Services, but was temporarily placed with a foster family in Wyoming. On August 7, 2018 she left the...
View ArticleAugust 13, 2018: Scam Targeting Medical Professionals
Earlier today a physician’s assistant in Charleston was contacted by someone claiming to be a Deputy Sheriff with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office. The suspect identified himself as Stephen Warren...
View ArticleAugust 15, 2018: Press Conference this Friday
This Friday, August 17, 2018, at 10:45 a.m. there will be a press conference at Flinn Elementary School in Sissonville announcing the resumption of Operation GPA. Operation GPA is a comprehensive...
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August 17, 2018: Operation GPA Resumes
Today the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office announced the resumption of Operation GPA, our school safety program. The program began in 2006 as Operation: Graduate Prom Alive (GPA), and was originally...
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