BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) - Former prison employee Scotty Rose has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for witness tampering.

Acting U.S. Attorney Carol Casto says in a news release that Rose was sentenced Thursday.

Rose worked in the Federal Correctional Institution in Beckley as a physician's assistant. The release says that in February 2013, Rose told a prisoner that another inmate was wearing a recording device and working for the FBI as an informant. The informant was, in fact, working with the FBI on a large scale methamphetamine trafficking investigation and wearing a recording device as part of that investigation.

The news spread, putting the informant at risk of retaliation. She was moved from the prison for her safety.

The FBI determined Rose to be the source of the leak.

The following crimes were reported to the Charleston Police Department between Jan. 14 and 20:

East District:

Quarrier Street 200 block, shoplifting, Jan. 15, 3:30 p.m.

Washington Street East 1600 block, breaking and entering auto, Jan. 16, 4:30 a.m.

Washington Street at Brooks Street, breaking and entering auto, Jan. 16, 2:30 p.m.

Quarrier Street 1200 block, breaking and entering, Jan. 16, 8:36 p.m.

Daniel Boone Drive 100 block, malicious wounding, Jan. 16, 9:15 p.m.

Washington Street East 1600 block, breaking and entering auto, Jan. 16, 11 p.m.

Plaza East Shopping Center, shoplifting, Jan. 17, 2:54 p.m.

Charleston Town Center, grand larceny, Jan. 17, 5:40 p.m.

Quarrier Street 200 block, shoplifting, Jan. 17, 5:50 p.m.

Vista View Apartments 1300 block, burglary, Jan. 18, 1 a.m.

Lance Drive 10 block, burglary, Jan. 18, 6:45 p.m.

Lee Street East 200 block, grand larceny, Jan. 19, 5:30 p.m.

Daniel Boone Drive 100 block, wanton endangerment, Jan. 19, 9 p.m.

Lee Street East 1500 block, burglary, Jan. 20, 6:30 p.m.

South District:

MacCorkle Avenue Southeast 5700 block, shoplifting, Jan. 14, 12:43 a.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 3600 block, breaking and entering, Jan. 14, 2:24 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue Southeast 6400 block, petit larceny, Jan. 14, 10:30 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 6500 block, shoplifting, Jan. 15, 1:30 p.m.

Oakwood Road 800 block, shoplifting, Jan. 15, 5:25 p.m.

Alcoa Drive 3400 block, burglary, Jan. 15, 9:30 p.m.

Alcoa Drive 3400 block, grand larceny auto, Jan. 15, 9:30 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 5700 block, shoplifting, Jan. 17, 3:57 p.m.

Centre Way Turn Loop, grand larceny auto, Jan. 17, 9 p.m.

Oakwood Road 800 block, breaking and entering auto, Jan. 18, midnight.

Bible Center Drive 100 block, petit larceny, Jan. 18, 1 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 6500 block, shoplifting, Jan. 18, 1:31 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 6500 block, shoplifting, Jan. 18, 5 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue Southeast 6400 block, failure to pay for gas, Jan. 18, 6:33 p.m.

MacCorkle Avenue 3800 block, shoplifting, Jan. 19, 2:18 p.m.

South Ruffner Road 400 block, assault of an officer, Jan. 19, 3 p.m.

Noyes Avenue 3500 block, grand larceny auto, Jan. 20, 7:05 a.m.

Sherwood Road 800 block, breaking and entering auto, Jan. 20, 11 p.m.

West District:

Upper Vine Street 1200 block, tampering with vehicle, Jan. 14, 8 a.m.

Dooley Lane 100 block, murder, Jan. 14, 12:12 p.m.

21st Street West 400 block, breaking and entering auto, Jan. 14, 2 p.m.

Beech Avenue 1100 block, burglary, Jan. 14, 8 p.m.

5th Avenue West 2500 block, breaking and entering auto, Jan. 15, 6:40 a.m.

Somerset Drive 900 block, breaking and entering auto, Jan. 15, 3:20 p.m.

Washington Street West 800 block, petit larceny, Jan. 15, 4:17 p.m.

Main Street 800 block, breaking and entering auto, Jan. 16, 1:45 p.m.

Delaware Avenue 500 block, shoplifting, Jan. 16, 5:40 p.m.

Woodland Drive 1600 block, burglary, Jan. 16, 7 p.m.

Viewmont Drive 1500 block, grand larceny auto, Jan. 16, 9 p.m.

Park Avenue 600 block, breaking and entering, Jan. 16, 9 p.m.

29th Street 200 block, grand larceny auto, Jan. 17, 6:50 a.m.

Washington Street West 1200 block, burglary, Jan. Jan. 17, 11:50 a.m.

Greendale Drive 800 block, malicious wounding, Jan. 18, 12:41 p.m.

Garrison Avenue 300 block, burglary, Jan. 18, 5:30 p.m.

Orchard Street 1000 block, grand larceny auto, Jan. 18, 9 p.m.

Chandler Drive 1700 block, petit larceny, Jan. 18, 9 p.m.

7th Avenue 1300 block, breaking and entering auto, Jan. 19, 3 a.m.

Piccadilly Street 600 block, robbery, Jan. 19, 1:45 p.m.

Washington Street West 1400 block, petit larceny auto, Jan. 19, 6 p.m.

4th Avenue 1700 block, shoplifting, Jan. 19, 6:30 p.m.

Spring Street 10 block, assault, Jan. 19, 6:57 p.m.

Washington Street West 1500 block, shoplifting, Jan. 20, 8:08 a.m.

Delaware Avenue 100 block, burglary, Jan. 20, 10:15 a.m.

Central Avenue 700 block, petit larceny, Jan. 20, 8:29 p.m.

Marriages

The following people applied for marriage licenses in Kanawha County between Jan. 14 and 21:

Jack Tri Nguyen, 34, and Giau Thi Ngoc Nguyen, 23, both of St. Albans.

Mark Cameron Mullins, 26, and Krista Brynne White, 29, both of East Bank.

David Creed Winterholler, 48, of Charleston and Joyce Ann Carroll, 55, of Clendenin.

James William Mason Chapman, 34, and Sarah Beth Miller, 34, both of St. Albans.

Gerald Ray DeBoard, 42, and Makayla Marie Pritt, 32, both of Charleston.

Jeffrey Michael Jones, 21, and Chelsie Renee Cummings, 22, both of North Elkview.

Charles Edward Shuff, 46, and Amanda Christine Zarowitz, 32, both of South Charleston.

The following people applied for marriage licenses in Putnam County from Jan. 1 to Jan. 20, 2016

Sabastian W. Young, 23, and Miranda S. Stover, 35, both of Eleanor

Daniel L. Burdette II, 21, and Melinda K. Taylor, 24, both of Leon

William C. Cochran, 62, and Christine L. Casto, 57, both of Liberty

Gregory S. Smith, 28, and Samantha J. Barnhouse, 22, both of Hurricane

Ricky G. Grimmett, 25, and Brittany J. Morris, 24, both of Eleanor

Matthew B. Winfree, 32, and Leah N. Redden, 31, both of Hurricane

Dennis R. Edwards, 68, of Culloden, and Kathy L. Hundley, 62, of Red House

Divorces

The following people filed for divorce in Kanawha County between Jan. 14 and 21:

Amanda D. McCallister from Robert C. Elswick Jr.

Carla J. Fleshman from Richard Lea Fleshman

Sheryl Louise Frederick Mullins from Michael A. Mullins

Tara Turner White from Thomas Wilson White Jr.

Tina Louise Campbell from James Edward Campbell

Timothy Grigsby from Sonia Grigsby

Lamesha McNeil from Dewayne McNeil

Christopher Lee Thornhill from Meghan Janel Thornhill

Thomas Anthony Campbell from Teresa Lynn Campbell

Lynne Merrifield from Eric Merrifield

Gregory Alan Frye Jr. from Patricia Jean Frye

Kelly Dawn Hudson from Meghan Breanne Michael

Joshua Daniel Keeling from Stella Ann Keeling

Joei Lynn Carpenter from Ronald Lee Carpenter

Kelly Renee Jozefyk from Timothy Aaron Adkins

Karen S. Page from Michael T. Page

Aravinda Nanjundappa from Sangeeta Mandapaka

Kristina Marie Roush from Gregory Allen Roush

Amy Jo Holdren from Christopher Steven Holdren

The following people filed for divorce in Putnam County from Jan. 1 to Jan. 19, 2016

Johnathan Abshire from Alicia Abshire

Francis E. Anderson from Danny Anderson

Melissa G. Simons from Gregory A. Simons

Sarah A. Romeo from Thomas J. Romeo

Amber M. Riley from Sidney Riley

Brent Stapleton from Deborah Lessard

Johanna M. Smith from Steven O. Smith

Kenneth Cremeans from Angie Cremeans

Catherine M. Bowyer from Ricky E. Jordan

Tamara Bays from Lonnie Bays

Lyndsay N. Miller from Matthew B. Miller

Taunia L. Harper from Billy R. Harper

Grace A. Allred from Aaron D. Allred

Brandon L. Thornton from Emily K. Perks

Sayed N. Hussaini from Brittany L. Hussaini

Kimberly G. Henson from George S. Henson

Jaime Lynn Meeks Schimmel from William Schimmel

Beverly G. Boswell from Harry L. Boswell

Property Transfers

The following property transfers of $50,000 or more were recorded in Kanawha County between Jan. 15 and 21:

J. Fletcher Sloan to Armstrong Investment Properties. Lot, Nitro, $56,000.

Karen Lynn Christo to Zucca-Rose Properties LLC. Lot, Charleston, $125,000.

R. Michael Reed to Carlos J. Kiser. Lot, Nitro, $78,000.

Delmer W. and Linda P. Starcher to Herbert and Sharyn McCormick. Lot, St. Albans, $110,000.

Patrick Wayne and Lisa K. Hughes to Anna M. and Anthony L. Sherrod. Lot, St. Albans, $215,000.

Mark E. and Jeanne O. Reid to Lesley E. Taylor and Eric H. Weiss. Lot, Union District, $236,000.

Brent L. and Anne M. Garrett to Bethany Simmons. Lot, Charleston, $141,500.

Justin M. Shamblin to Ronnie Meddlings. Lot, St. Albans, $87,000.

Joseph L. Jr. and Diane A. Matherne to Steven and Sara Reese. Lot, South Charleston, $160,000.

Dunbar Printing Company to Bad Kitty Properties LLC. Lot, Dunbar, $158,500.

Sharon K. Thacker to A&M Properties and Investments LLC and Montani Properties LLC. Lot, Union District, $175,000.

Tina M. Glover Howard to Justin M. Jett. Lot, Big Sandy District, $55,000.

Edward Squirts to Pickens Properties LLC. Lot, Charleston, $50,000.

Melvin and Patricia Goble to David M. Midkiff. Lot, St. Albans, $75,000.

Tabatha J. Torres to Susan L. Carson. Lot, Union District, $64,000.

The Huntington National Bank to Jeremy Q. Wills. Lots, Pratt District, $61,500.

Teddy R. Neal to Jean N. Miller. Lot, St. Albans, $63,000.

Lisa Ann Boner, Trina Kay Dunlap, Gregory Neal Pennington and Gary Douglas Pennington to Christopher Alan and Lauren Michelle Boner. Lot, Washington District, $110,000.

Charles B. and Virginia G. Hall to Amy K. Broyles. Lots, Malden District, $175,000.

Irene Hilton to Charleston Area Medical Center Inc. Lot, Charleston, $148,000.

Kevin and Bernadine Harrison to David D. Crouch. Lot, Dunbar, $50,000.

Kevin and Bernadine Harrison to David D. Crouch. Lots, Dunbar, $60,000.

Ira R. II and Rachel N. Jeffers to Jordan J. and Bailey Clay. Lot, Charleston, $210,000.

Thomas J. McCarthy II to Lindsay R. Daniels and Richard S. Arnold. Lot, Charleston, $161,000.

Kathy Toma to Robert H. and Susan W. Romaine. Lot, Charleston, $510,000.

Barry Stephen Guthrie to Michael Norris Barber. Lot, Jefferson District, $63,000.

Linda Sue Conner to Richard S. Young. Parcels, Charleston, $175,000.

David A. and Tina L. Vanbibber to Toby B. Brown, DBA T. Brown Construction. Parcels, Charleston, $106,000.

Norma Alexis and Don Edward Adkins to Chad Parker. Parcels, Elk Tax District, $150,000.

Jerry Mark Lawrence to Chesty LLC. Lot, Dunbar, $52,500.

The following property transfers of $75,000 or more were recorded in Putnam County from Jan 1 to Jan 20, 2016

Chad L. and Julie M. Browning to Abram and Savannah Ferguson. Lot, Winfield Town, $263,400.

Bancroft Church of God Mission to Stacy A. Skeen. Lot, Bancroft, $95,000.

Timothy R. and Charmayne F. Aliff to Corey C. and Ashlee J. Davis. Acres, Scott, $265,000

Russell T. Weaver Jr. and Janette F. Kennedy to William D. and Judy P. Henard. Lot, Curry, $380,000.

Finley Pines LLC to Collin J. Mccray. Lot, Scott, $100,000.

Gary D. and Tasha N. Holland to Matthew J. and Alyssa Krupinski, Lot, Scott, $285,000.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC to Paul L. and Amanda L. Wilson. Lot, Curry, $100,000

Richard L. Jr. and Cheryln J. Seay to Baxter and Ann Fullen. Lot, Curry, $159,000

Michelle D. Johnson to Gregory L. and Jennifer T. Young. Lot, Buffalo Town, $79,500. Clarence D. and Pamela S. Moore to Robert T. II and Melissa A. Sanders. Lot, Scott, $255,000.

Thompson Real Estate Inc to TMN Holdings LLC. Rosewood Village Units, Hurricane, $1,000,000.

First State Bank to Keith M. and Allison Sayre. Lot, Jamestown Subdivision, $100,000

James D. Collins to Brandon C. Collins. Teays Villa Lot, Scott, $85,000

Benjamin Graley to Heather Egnor. Two Parcels, Scott, $80,000.

Jayco Corporation to Hansford Corporation. Four Parcels, Winfield Town, $850,000

Richard A. Pill, David D. Pill, Amanda E. Steiner, Fred H. II and Cristen W. Young to US Bank National Association. Lot, Poca, $97,596.09

Beulah Erskine to John R. Smoot, Acres, Scott, $142,009

David L. Phelix to David B. Smith. Acres, Scott, $185,250

Jimmy J. and Patricia S. Kaderli to Jeremiah W. Bragg. Lot, Winfield Town, $382,500.

Matthew L. and Cheryl A. Cummings to Jon W. and Anne M. Putnam. Lot, Scott, $405,000.

Larry A. and Mary C. Horrocks to Van C. Jr. and Diane L. Wysong. Tract, Curry, $255,500.

Patrick J. Jones, Timothy V. and Jenny L. Davis to Branch Banking and Trust Company. Lot, Teays Valley, $255,000.

Robert W. and Ricky L. Odell to William J. Brown. Parcels, Curry, $80,000.

Kate E. and John J. Candillo to David A. and Donna Divita. Acres, Teays Valley, $173,000.

Gibson Builders Inc. to James H. Parsons. Lot, Eleanor, $258,000.

Bankruptcies

The bankruptcies listed below are limited to those filed by residents or companies in the Gazette-Mail's circulation area. Chapter 7 designates the liquidation of non-exempt property; Chapter 11 calls for business reorganization; Chapter 13 establishes a schedule of payments to creditors. The following bankruptcies were filed between Jan. 15 and 21:

Jerry Wayne and Charlotte Ann Wilson, Julian, Chapter 7. Assets: $67,250, Liabilities: $92,353.

Jillian Jamill Looney, Williamson, Chapter 7. Assets: $104,116, Liabilities: $142,653.

Samuel Morris and Fonda Jo Hope, Cabin Creek, Chapter 7. Assets: $94,970, Liabilities: $109,258.

Douglas Robert and Mary Alyce Bryant, Verdunville, Chapter 7. Assets: $108,644, Liabilities: $82,570.

Shawn Robert and Shelia Kae Carter, Charleston, Chapter 7. Assets: $93,562, Liabilities: $208,143.

Michael Clayton and Jessica Jorena May, Dingess, Chapter 7. Assets: $76,810, Liabilities: $116,469.

Teresa Lynn and Jeffery Dale Watts, Branchland, Chapter 7. Assets: $18,850, Liabilities: $217,204.

Carol Anne Sheppard, Marmet, Chapter 7. Assets: $5,770, Liabilities: $29,701.

Daniel Lewis and Heather Noel Hensley, Chapter 7. Assets: $19,700, Liabilities: $39,275.

Byron Joseph Williamson, Man, Chapter 7. Assets: $26,236, Liabilities: $131,085.

Ernest Williamson, Man, Chapter 7. Assets: $33,782, Liabilities: $59,093.

Nathan Kelly and Andrea Ann Pritchard, Branchland, Chapter 7. Assets: $63,051, Liabilities: $73,096.

Patricia Ann Hendricks, White Sulphur Springs, Chapter 7. Assets: $60,873, Liabilities: $27,048.

Melvin Edward Hendricks II, White Sulphur Springs, Chapter 7. Assets: $256,218, Liabilities: $87,330.

Catherine Ann Ingram, Charleston, Chapter 13. Assets: $119,888, Liabilities: $101,132.

State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey will not file an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of a Clarksburg man who has been in prison for 14 years because prosecutors withheld evidence while he was in the process of pleading guilty.

In November, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Joseph Buffey's due process rights were violated when Harrison County prosecutors did not disclose a DNA test that indicated he was not guilty of the rape he had been charged with.

The case set a new precedent in West Virginia criminal law - prosecutors must hand over favorable evidence to defendants, not just before a trial, but during the plea bargain process as well.

Morrisey had asked the court to wait on finalizing its ruling while he decided whether or not he wanted to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

On Monday, he decided he would not appeal "due to the unique circumstances of the case.

"I remain concerned about the consequences of the state Supreme Court's potentially broad ruling and hope the court will reconsider or narrow its decision in the future," Morrisey said in a prepared statement.

The case attracted national attention as the central issue - when a prosecutor must turn over evidence favorable to the defense - has never been resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court.

That issue is also central to the country's criminal justice system, as well over 90 percent of criminal cases that never go to trial.

"Horse trading, between prosecutor and defense counsel, determines who goes to jail and for how long," the U.S. Supreme Court wrote in a separate case in 2012. "That is what plea bargaining is. It is not some adjunct to the criminal justice system; it is the criminal justice system."

Buffey has been in prison since he pleaded guilty in 2002 to sexual assault, at age 19. His plea came after a nine-hour interrogation and after his court-appointed lawyer advised him that his sentence would not be greater than he would receive for separate nonviolent robbery charges.

His court-appointed lawyer told him to accept the guilty plea - which would soon expire - despite the fact that both he and his lawyer repeatedly requested the DNA results, which pointed toward a different assailant.

That assailant pleaded guilty last spring to the sexual assault, but Buffey remains in prison.

Buffey has been represented, in part, by the Innocence Project, a national organization that uses DNA evidence to free people wrongly convicted of crimes.

"For the first time in nearly 14 years, Joe Buffey no longer stands convicted of a rape and robbery," Allan Karlin, Buffey's Morgantown-based lawyer, wrote. "We are hopeful that we can work with the Harrison County Prosecuting Attorney to quickly bring the case to a just and final conclusion."

The case will now be returned to Harrison County Circuit Court. Buffey will officially withdraw his guilty plea and the local prosecutor will decide whether to free him or to begin a new trial.

Assistant Prosecutor David Romano, who was not on the case when it first came up in 2002 but argued it for Harrison County in the fall, did not return requests for comment on Monday.

Reach David Gutman at david.gutman@wvgazettemail.com, 304-348-5119 or follow @davidlgutman on Twitter.

A man car-jacked two vehicles in Kanawha County on Sunday, deputies say.

The man stole a car in Putnam County, then drove into Kanawha County in the stolen vehicle and car-jacked a Ford Edge at Waycross Drive and Big Tyler Road, according to a news release from Kanawha County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Brian Humphreys.

Deputies say the man then stole a Chevrolet S-10 at gunpoint on Fisher's Branch Road. A man and his 13-year-old son were in the vehicle.

He next broke into a home on Dalewood Drive in Cross Lanes, then abandoned the S-10 near Dorsey Stables on Rocky Fork Road, deputies say.

The Kanawha County Sheriff's Office and the Putnam County Sheriff's Office are working together on the investigation.

"Detectives have leads in the case and are still investigating the crimes," Humphreys said.

Anyone with information is asked to call 304-357-0169, submit a tip at www.kanawhasheriff.us, or email Tips@kanawhasheriff.us.

A Culloden man who was sentenced Monday to spend more than three years in federal prison for selling heroin is the latest to be prosecuted as part of a family who sold drugs.

Sanford Dale Cremeans, 45, was sentenced to spend three years and six months in prison for distributing heroin from his Cabell County home, according to a news release from Acting U.S. Attorney Carol Casto. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chambers handed down the sentence in Huntington.

Cremeans, his wife, Toni, and their son, Shawn, conspired to sell heroin between early 2014 through May 2015, the release states.

On Dec. 2, 2014, a confidential informant working for police contacted Shawn Cremeans and arranged to purchase heroin. The informant went to the Cremeans' home on 3rd Street and met with Shawn and Sanford Cremeans while they waited for Toni Cremeans to arrive with additional heroin, according to the release. When Toni Cremeans arrived, the informant paid Shawn Cremeans and received the heroin from Sanford Cremeans.

Sanford Cremeans admitted that he assisted in the sale of heroin from the family home on numerous other occasions and was responsible for the distribution of up to 100 grams of heroin, the release states.

Toni Cremeans previously pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin and faces a maximum 20 years in prison when she's sentenced March 28. Shawn Cremeans will be sentenced March 7. He pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the distribution of heroin and also faces up to 20 years in prison.

A former Freedom Industries official on Monday urged a federal judge not to send him to jail for his role in the January 2014 chemical spill that contaminated the drinking water supply for hundreds of thousands of people in the Kanawha Valley and surrounding communities.

Robert J. Reynolds said that "incarceration is not a requirement" in this case and that other alternatives - imposing a fine, probation or home confinement - would "appropriately address" his conduct.

Brandon Johnson, defense attorney for Reynolds, filed a sentencing memorandum with U.S. District Judge Thomas Johnston on Monday, the deadline for the defense and the prosecution to file their recommendations for Reynolds. Johnston is scheduled to sentence Reynolds on Feb. 1 in U.S. District Court in Charleston.

As of press time, Assistant U.S. Attorney Phil Wright, lead prosecutor in the case, had not yet filed a sentencing memorandum. Assistant U.S. Attorney Clint Carte, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office, declined comment.

Reynolds faces up to one year in prison after reaching a plea agreement in which he admitted to a one-count misdemeanor of negligent discharge of a pollutant, a criminal violation under the federal Clean Water Act. Reynolds also faces a fine of up to $25,000 per day of violation, a fine of $100,000, or a fine of twice the financial gain or loss caused by his crime.

The Reynolds sentencing memo and his Feb. 1 sentencing hearing are the first in a series of such legal filings and hearings scheduled for Freedom Industries, the company, and for a total of six former Freedom officials who reached plea agreements with federal prosecutors while U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin, who has resigned to run for governor, was still in office.

Prosecutors have referred to Reynolds as Freedom's longtime environmental manager. In his new court filing, Johnson says that Reynolds was "an independent consultant" for Freedom.

"Freedom's loosely run management style resulted in Mr. Reynolds being asked by Freedom's owners to do more and more environmental type work, outside his area of expertise," Johnson wrote. "But, rather than declining, he negligently accepted tasks that should have been assigned to other qualified individuals. That was his fault, and he accepts responsibility for his actions/inactions."

The defense filing indicated that the government would be filing a motion indicating that Reynolds provided prosecutors with "substantial assistance," by giving "an inside view of how Freedom Industries operated." Reynolds testified to a federal grand jury in the matter, and his "cooperation played a substantial role" in other Freedom officials reaching plea agreements, the defense said.

Reach Ken Ward Jr. at kward@wvgazettemail.com, 304-348-1702 or follow @kenwardjr on Twitter.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a group of power companies and several Republican attorneys general, including West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, in a case that deals with the federal government's ability to regulate regional energy markets.

In a 6-2 ruling, the Supreme Court voted to overturn a lower court's opinion that challenged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's ability to regulate what is known in the power industry as demand response.

Demand response is a practice that allows large industrial or commercial electric customers - or larger groups of residential customers - to get paid for reducing the amount of power they use when electricity demand is at its highest.

The case itself - Electric Power Supply Association v. Federal Energy Regulatory Committee - deals with two federal orders that allowed demand response customers to compete in the regional electric markets with companies that own power plants.

Many power producers had argued that demand response reduced the amount of money that companies could make from coal plants, gas turbines, solar arrays and wind farms and would push some of those facilities out of business. Engineers, consumer advocates and grid operators that supported the orders said demand response saves customers money, is more effective than additional power generation and often out-competes the oldest and dirtiest plants.

Morrisey and the other attorneys general, led by Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma, argued on behalf of the power suppliers, as they evoked states' rights and disputed FERC's authority to regulate what they believed was a retail transaction.

But those arguments fell flat with the majority of the court, according to the opinion that was released Monday.

"Electricity has increasingly become a competitive interstate business, and FERC's role has evolved accordingly," Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the majority. "Electricity flows not through 'the local power networks of the past,' but instead through an interconnected 'grid' of near-nationwide scope."

As evidence of their opinion, Kagan also cited the Energy Policy Act of 2005 - signed into law by President George W. Bush - which specifically stated that FERC should encourage the adoption of demand response. She was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor in the decision.

Justice Antonin Scalia and Justice Clarence Thomas dissented. They argued, like Morrisey, that FERC was limited by the law, which requires states to control retail transactions in the electric industry. Justice Samuel Alito was recused from he case.

"The majority is wrong even on its own terms," Scalia wrote, "for the rule at issue here does in fact regulate 'retail electricity sales.'"

Kagan and the other justices disputed that legal argument, however, and pointed out that states had the option of not participating.

According to the FERC rules, any state that wished to prohibit its businesses and residents from getting paid by the regional grid for reducing their energy needs could opt out.

"That feature of the rule removes any conceivable doubt as to its compliance with allocation of federal and state authority," Kagan wrote.

Many states, including West Virginia, have not chosen to opt out. In fact, many West Virginia companies, including industrial manufacturers and commercial retailers, have made a significant amount of money off of signing contracts that require them to reduce their energy needs when the regional grid is in need.

Together those companies account for roughly 587 megawatts of demand response, and in 2015 and 2016, those participating businesses - which aren't publicly known - stand to make roughly $20 million from demand response contracts, based on current pricing.

The Supreme Court's ruling is expected to be a loss for companies like FirstEnergy, which had previously petitioned FERC to end demand response bidding in regional markets entirely.

But Monday's opinion was a cause for celebration for other groups, including the Advanced Energy Management Alliance, a group that represents demand response providers.

"Demand response benefits consumers, is a proven resource that enables more efficient and cleaner operation of the electricity grid, and provides cost savings to everyone who uses electricity," the group wrote in a press release.

"We are particularly pleased that FERC stood its ground in this case," said Katherine Hamilton, the group's executive director.

Reach Andrew Brown at andrew.brown@wvgazettemail.com, 304-348-4814 or follow @Andy_Ed_Brown on Twitter.

Police have arrested a Cross Lanes man they say carjacked two vehicles in Kanawha County on Sunday.

David A. Young, of Cross Lanes, was arrested Tuesday afternoon, according to a post on the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office Twitter account. Young, 23, was charged with two counts of armed robbery.

Young, 23, allegedly stole a car in Putnam County, then drove into Kanawha County in the stolen vehicle and carjacked a Ford Edge at Waycross Drive and Big Tyler Road.

Deputies said he then stole a Chevrolet S-10 at gunpoint on Fishers Branch Road. A man and his 13-year-old son were in the vehicle.

He allegedly then broke into a home on Dalewood Drive in Cross Lanes, then abandoned the S-10 near Dorsey Stables on Rocky Fork Road.

Detectives with the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, Putnam County Sheriff's Office, Charleston Police Street Crimes Unit, MDENT, and St. Albans Police Department participated in the investigation, deputies said in a news release.

A Princeton man wanted on 126 counts related to sexual assault or abuse was arrested Tuesday morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Clifford Robinson, 40, was indicted on June 9 in Mercer County on 41 counts of second-degree sexual assault, 42 counts of incest, 41 counts of sexual abuse and three counts of use of obscene material with intent to seduce a minor, according to a news release from the U.S. Marshals Service.

Deputies with the U.S. Marshals Service in West Virginia and Louisiana found Robinson in Baton Rouge, where he had apparently fled to avoid prosecution.

Robinson has a history of assault, including domestic assault and financial crimes, according to the release.

A consumer representative from Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office will conduct mobile office hours throughout Cabell, Kanawha, Putnam and Wayne counties next month. Andrea Lannom, a consumer outreach and compliance specialist with the office, will educate consumers on the latest scams in their area and provide them with tips on how to protect their personal information.

The mobile office hours are scheduled as follows:

n Feb. 1: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Bison Senior Center 330 Buffalo Creek Road, Kenova

n Feb. 3: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Elk River Senior Center, 1078 Main St., Elkview

n Feb. 4: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Town Hall at Elk Valley Branch Library, 313 Crossings Mall Road, Elkview

n Feb. 8: 1 to 2 p.m., Loop Pharmacy, 72 6th Ave., St. Albans

n Feb. 10: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Buffalo Senior Center, 48 Wrights Lane, Buffalo

n Feb. 11: 10 to 11 a.m., Kanawha County Courthouse, 409 Virginia St. E.

n Feb. 11: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Town Hall at Marmet Recreation Center, 8599 MacCorkle Ave., Marmet

n Feb. 12: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Charleston Town Center Mall, 300 Charleston Town Center

n Feb. 13: Noon to 2 p.m., Alum Creek Elementary, 4540 Brounland Road, Alum Creek

n Feb. 16: 6 to 7 p.m., Town Hall at George Washington High School, 1522 Tennis Club Road

n Feb. 17: Noon to 1 p.m., Marie Redd Senior Center, 1750 9th Ave., Huntington

n Feb. 18: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Town Hall at South Charleston City Hall, 4th Ave., South Charleston

n Feb. 22: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Putnam County Library, 4219 W.Va. 34, Teays Valley

n Feb. 25: 11 a.m. to noon, Cabell County Courthouse, 750 5th Ave., Huntington

n Feb. 29: 11 a.m. to noon, Wayne Senior Center, 440 Cleveland St., Wayne

Reservations are not required. For information about the mobile office hours, call Andrea Lannom at 304-989-3506.

After spending a day discussing a plea deal that would send her son to prison for murder, Star Hogan woke up at 5 a.m. and typed.

Then, she says, she walked through the snowy streets of Charleston hand-delivering letters to the prosecuting attorney, her son's defense attorney and Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King.

Her son, Terrick Hogan, faces a first-degree murder charge in the January 2015 killing of Kalvon Casdorph inside a Cross Lanes motel.

After Terrick Hogan read the letter his mother wrote Tuesday, he decided to request a new lawyer and rescind the plea agreement he had entered into with prosecutors earlier Tuesday. If approved by the judge, the deal would have given him a sentence of life in prison with mercy, meaning he would have a chance to go before a parole board after serving 15 years.

Instead, King removed Hogan's attorney, Troy Giatras, from the case and appointed him new counsel.

"I don't particularly like it," King said, "but I think I must under the circumstances."

Hogan's trial was set to begin Monday, but Giatras asked King on Monday for an extra day to spend with his client. The judge said Hogan had until 3 p.m. Monday to decide whether to go to trial or accept the deal prosecutors had offered and plead guilty.

Marcus Dominick Curtis, of Dunbar, and Shayla Stephenson, of St. Albans, already have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from Casdorph's death. As part of the deals they made with prosecutors, both Curtis and Stephenson agreed to testify against Hogan.

Last week, Curtis, who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, told King that he shot Casdorph twice inside a room at Motel 6. He said he took a little more than $3,000 from Casdorph's pants pockets, before speeding off in a car with Hogan and Stephenson.

Casdorph and Hogan had been gambling at the Mardis Gras Resort and Casino, before going to the motel, according to police. Curtis said that it was Hogan who encouraged him to rob Casdorph.

King said he would wait until the conclusion of Hogan's case before handing down Curtis' sentence - of life in prison with mercy - to ensure that he cooperates with prosecutors in their case against Hogan.

Stephenson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery. She is the mother of Hogan's child. In exchange for her cooperation, prosecutors dropped murder and first-degree robbery charges she was facing. King is also waiting to sentence her until after the prosecution of Hogan has concluded. She faces between one to five years in jail.

In her letter, Star Hogan asked that prosecutors reduce the charge her son faces to second-degree murder, which carries a possible 10- to 40-year sentence.

Assistant Kanawha prosecutor Maryclaire Akers refused that request and said she would push to have Hogan convicted of first-degree murder and given the maximum sentence.

"Under the law, the mastermind of what happened is Terrick Hogan," Akers said.

Star Hogan wouldn't say Tuesday whether she thought her son should have accepted the deal that prosecutors offered. She said that decision was his to make. She said she felt her son had some responsibility for the crime, but didn't agree that he was the mastermind. She said she wrote the letter to call attention to what she believes are flaws in the way her son was represented.

"There's two sides to the story," she said. "I know they're trying to villainize him, but I'm trying to humanize him."

When asked by the judge why he wanted a new lawyer, Terrick Hogan said that he felt his lawyer hadn't tried hard enough to get a better deal. To replace Giatras, King appointed Charleston lawyer Edward Bullman to represent Terrick Hogan.

"I've contacted him on numerous occasions," Terrick Hogan said of Giatras. "I've seen him once in this whole process outside of the courthouse, outside of this courtroom."

Giatras said after the hearing that he had never received any complaints from Terrick Hogan.

"He seemed to be fine with me up until the moment he read his mother's letter," Giatras said. "Mr. Hogan can say what he likes. The prosecutor made it very clear today, on the record, that regardless of which lawyer or how many lawyers he gets on the case, there will not be a better plea offer than what was offered today."

After the judge granted Terrick Hogan's request for new representation, Casdorph's mother, Natalie, raised her hand to speak.

"I would like it to end," Natalie Casdorph said. Her words brought both her and Terrick Hogan's loved ones to tears. "In God's gloried name, I would like it to end."

Reach Daniel Desrochers at dan.desrochers@wvgazettemail.com, 304-348-4886 or follow @drdesrochers on Twitter.

The insurance company for the church destroyed in the Yeager Airport landslide has given formal notice that it will sue the airport and others over the damage.

Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company filed the notice last week that it intends to sue the Central West Virginia Regional Airport Authority, on behalf of Keystone Apostolic Church. The church, which was located on Keystone Drive, was destroyed when the airport's safety-overrun slope fell last year.

The lawsuit will seek damages for the failure of the structure the airport maintained and for failing to provide the church with adequate warning of the failure, wrote Clarksburg attorney Jeffrey D. Van Volkenburg.

"Brotherhood made payment for the damages to the property of its insured and now seeks to recover the payments made on behalf and to its insured,' the notice states.

The airport was to hold mediation sessions with the church's insurance company last October. A letter received by the airport in September stated that the church was seeking $8 million in compensation.

Yeager has bought more than a dozen houses and land parcels in the Keystone Drive vicinity after its insurance carrier, AIG, balked at buying any property in the slope failure area pending the settlement of slide-related lawsuits involving the airport. Those lawsuits still are pending.

The church's insurer also will sue the engineering firm and other companies that were associated with the safety overrun's construction and maintenance.

State law requires notice be given to state agencies before a lawsuit is filed. Brotherhood sent the notice to state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey.

Police say they were able to track the Cross Lanes man who allegedly carjacked two vehicles on Sunday because a victim used the "find my phone" feature on a cellphone left in one of the vehicles.

David Allen Young, 23, was arrested Tuesday afternoon. He was charged with two counts of armed robbery, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Young allegedly stole a car in Putnam County, then drove into Kanawha County in the stolen vehicle and carjacked a Ford Edge at Waycross Drive and Big Tyler Road.

Deputies said he then stole a Chevrolet S-10 at gunpoint on Fishers Branch Road. Harold Bailey and his 13-year-old son were in the vehicle.

He allegedly then broke into a home on Dalewood Drive in Cross Lanes, then abandoned the S-10 near Dorsey Stables on Rocky Fork Road.

Bailey realized he had left his phone in the truck and used the "find my phone" feature to track the phone to the Rocky Fork Road area, according to the complaint. Deputies interviewed a woman who lived there, Kathleen Casto, who told police Young had come to the home after calling to see if she was there, but she had told him to leave when she saw police vehicles across the street and assumed police were looking for him.

She told police she didn't know his last name, but her co-worker, Amy Sneed, would, and that he had a "Mike Tyson tattoo" on his face. Sneed, who lives near Young, identified the man with the tattoo as David Young.

When a majority of the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a Republican should fill a vacant state Senate seat, their interpretation of state law was unconstitutional, Justice Robin Davis wrote in a dissent filed Wednesday.

The court ruled 3-1 last week that the seat vacated by Democrat-turned-Republican Daniel Hall should be filled by a Republican because Hall was a Republican when he quit. Sue Cline, a Wyoming County Republican, was sworn in as a new senator on Monday.

Davis agreed with the court's reading of the law, which says the seat should be filled by the party of the person "immediately preceding" the vacancy, but said a closer reading of the law reveals inconsistencies which violate the state constitution.

Just as she did in oral arguments, Davis chastised the lawyers for both the Democratic and Republican parties for focusing almost exclusively on state code, and not considering whether the code was constitutional.

"Like proverbial deer in the headlights," Davis wrote of the lawyers, they "have virtually frozen when faced with the full measure of the legal question presented by this case."

Davis also had harsh words for her fellow justices, Chief Justice Menis Ketchum and Justice Allen Loughry, who wrote concurring opinions suggesting that a finding separate from their own was perhaps evidence of political bias.

Loughry, in his concurring opinion, wrote that the Democrats' case was "a thinly veiled attempt to bait the members of this Court into a partisan solution."

Ketchum, in his concurrence, which was just one paragraph long, wrote that his vote "effectively eliminates any chance of my being re-elected."

Loughry is a Republican, as is Justice Brent Benjamin, who recused himself from the case. Ketchum, Davis and Justice Margaret Workman, who wrote the majority opinion are Democrats.

"When I disagree with a decision endorsed by the majority of this court, I do so because I interpret the law differently," Davis wrote. "I find it profoundly troubling that a commentary suggesting bias or impugning the integrity of a justice would ever have a place in a separate, concurring opinion."

Davis wrote that the majority's interpretation of the law violated two different sections of the West Virginia Constitution.

Hall was elected in 2012 as a Democrat, but switched parties the day after the 2014 elections, breaking a 17-17 tie in the Senate and giving the Republicans a narrow majority.

Davis wrote that Hall has a constitutionally protected right to join whatever party he wants, but in appointing a replacement from a different party than the voters elected, state code disenfranchises the voters who elected a Democrat in 2012.

"This construction, dictated by the statute's plain language, effectively silences the voters' voice and cannot be reconciled with the voters' constitutional right to select a representative of their choosing," Davis wrote.

The majority's interpretation of the law is also unconstitutional for another, more complex reason, Davis wrote.

One section of state code says that an open seat should be replaced by the party of the person "immediately preceding" the vacancy.

But, two sections lower, code says that the replacement should be chosen by the party executive committee from the district where the vacating senator lived "at the time of his or her election."

The discrepancy: the first section instructs how to choose the party, while the second section instructs how to choose the geography.

The geography instruction is necessary, Davis writes, in case of redistricting - to make sure that every district is properly represented even if district boundary lines change between a senator's election and his or her resignation.

If the Legislature says that a replacement senator should reflect the district's geography at the time of election, Davis wrote, the voters' choice of parties at the time of election should be recognized as well.

But that's not what the statute says.

To interpret the code as it is written, Davis writes, "makes it internally inconsistent" and "in light of this incongruous and inconsistent result," it "must be deemed unconstitutional."

Reach David Gutman at david.gutman@wvgazettemail.com, 304-348-5119 or follow @davidlgutman on Twitter.

Clinton Giles claims in a lawsuit filed this week that the Kanawha County Board of Education and, specifically, board member Pete Thaw, made it impossible for him to return to work as Capital High School's principal after a judge dismissed a misdemeanor charging him with failing to report an alleged sexual assault at the school.

By the time the charge was dismissed, Giles' reputation had already been damaged, according to the lawsuit filed in Kanawha Circuit Court. Giles is suing both the Board of Education and Thaw, individually.

There was a rush to judgment after the charge was filed, Giles lawsuit states. He was immediately suspended without pay and disparaging comments were made about him.

Giles was "falsely and ignorantly" accused of wrongdoing, his attorney James Cagle wrote.

The Board and Thaw, "created an environment which rendered it impossible for Mr. Giles to return to work in the employment which he had held for nearly thirteen years," the complaint states.

Giles asks that he be compensated for, among other things, lost income and damage to his reputation.

According to prosecutors, a counselor at the school told Giles in January 2015 that a girl had said she was assaulted by a male student. Prosecutors said Giles took no action except to tell two Capital vice principals that they shouldn't do anything until the next morning, when they could review school surveillance footage. Police should have been notified immediately, prosecutors said.

Giles says that the actions he took were in compliance with school policy as mandated by the Board of Education.

But Giles claims it was immediately clear that he didn't have the Board's support after the charge was filed.

During a board of education meeting on Feb. 9, 2015, Giles claims, he was publicly ridiculed and singled out as the only employee who failed to make a timely report of the alleged assault. The board voted during that meeting to accept Giles' resignation.

"Defendant Pete Thaw made comments to the news media knowing that they would be publicly disseminated which had the effect to those members of the public viewing his comments that Mr. Giles was guilty of criminal conduct and further that Mr. Giles never should have been hired or retained as a Board employee," Cagle wrote.

"Not only were Mr. Thaw's remarks recklessly made, but his remarks were maliciously made," the complaint continues.

The lawsuit has been assigned to Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King.

Giles, 64, was Kanawha's highest-paid and longest-serving principal.

Kanawha Circuit Judge Carrie Webster dismissed the charge against Giles several weeks after it was filed. She said she didn't believe county prosecutors acted in bad faith but that the law doesn't support the prosecution.

Outside the courtroom, after the charge was dismissed, Giles held back tears and said that the charge had brought an abrupt and premature end to his 37 years as an educator.

Dallas King, 18, faces a sexual assault charge over the alleged incident at the school. The victim in the alleged incident filed a lawsuit against Giles and the school board in 2015.

Reach Kate White at kate.white@wvgazettemail.com, 304-348-1723 or follow @KateLWhite on Twitter.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - The city of Morgantown last year saw its lowest number of malicious fires since 2001.

City Manager Jeff Mikorski says 67 fires were set in trash bins and in the street in 2015, down from 122 such fires in 2014.

Morgantown adopted ordinances last year banning upholstered furniture from being placed on porches and other outdoor areas. Fire marshals also were granted arrest authority at fire scenes.

Mikorski says West Virginia University also has taken steps to change student behavior and encourage responsibility.

WVU students have a long history of fires and mayhem after big athletic events. A few years ago police began using Facebook, Twitter and other social media to identify suspects.

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Huntington city council members want to open new lines of communication for police in an attempt to tackle the city's drug problem.

WCHS-TV reports council members are working on bringing the Appalachian High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area and the Huntington police force into the same communication channels. The Appalachian High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area currently helps connect federal groups such as the FBI with local and state police.

Councilman David Ball is sponsoring an ordinance he says would allow officials to share more information throughout the country and will also help them keep track of high-profile dealers that come to Huntington from different states.

Huntington's drug policy council director Jim Johnson says involving the federal government is beneficial because local governments don't have the resources that federal agencies do.

A woman in the Davis Creek area of Kanawha County shot her husband on Thursday morning and then called 911 to report it, deputies said.

Deputies detained the woman, and the man was taken from the area to a hospital, Kanawha Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Humphreys said.

Neither party were identified by name. The man's condition was not available Thursday afternoon.

The shooting was reported to Kanawha Metro 911 at 11:42 a.m. The address given was 50 Matchlock Road in Davis Creek and four people were in the house, according to 911 dispatchers.

Neighbors called 911 to report hearing gunshots, Humphreys said in the news release.

Kanawha sheriff's detectives are investigating. It wasn't immediately clear if charges would be filed in the matter.

Kanawha County grand jurors have found probable cause to indict a Charleston man on a charge of retaliation after he allegedly posted the name of a confidential police informant on social media.

Andre Gerard Lee, 30, was also indicted on a drug charge Thursday by a Kanawha grand jury. Prosecutors say Lee posted copies of pages from an information packet containing the name of a confidential informant - who gave police information about Lee.

Lee allegedly obtained the packet from Tracie Jones, who prosecutors charged with selling drugs to the informant. Jones' attorney, Sarah Whitaker, a Kanawha public defender, gave a copy of the packet to Jones for review while the two met to discuss Jones' case. Whittaker, however, told Kanawha Circuit Judge Tod Kaufman that she forgot to take back the information from Jones at the conclusion of their meeting.

Lee posted numerous photos of the packet with captions like "I'd be ashamed of myself," "exposed" and "cheap whore." The photos show the name of the informant, his address and some of the rules for informants and potential cash rewards for providing police with useful information.

The packet also lists Lee and Jones as "targets." Marijuana is written next to Lee's name, while prescription pills is written next to Jones.

Defendants have the right to inspect evidence prosecutors plan to use against them and to know who could possibly testify against them, but defense attorneys are barred from releasing to defendants the physical copies of any information relating to confidential informants.

Upon being notified that the confidential informant's name had been released on Dec. 10 online, Kaufman held a hearing Dec. 15, in which he removed Whitaker as Jones' attorney. Earlier this month, Kaufman held another hearing and ordered Whitaker to pay $50. Whitaker and her colleagues at the Kanawha Public Defender's Office agreed to no longer photocopy confidential informant packets.

Lee is set to be arraigned on the charges Feb. 9 in front of Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King.

In all, a Kanawha grand jury returned indictments against 58 defendants this week, Prosecuting Attorney Charles Miller announced.

An indictment is not a finding of fact. It means only that a grand jury has determined there's enough evidence to warrant a trial.

Arraignments will be held as follows:

n Judge Jennifer Bailey, Feb. 3, 9 a.m.

David Allen Eskew, 36, of St. Albans, fleeing in vehicle with reckless indifference to the safety of others and child neglect creating substantial risk of serious bodily injury and death.

n Judge Charles King, Feb. 9, 1:30 p.m.

David C. Alexander, 60, of Charleston, failure to register as a sex offender; Whitney Brooke Cochran, 27, of Marmet, child neglect creating substantial risk of serious bodily injury; James Ralph Cook III, 54, of Charleston, burglary; Jamie Ann Hall, 45, of Hurricane, grand larceny; Bambi Johnson, 42, of Dunbar, forgery and uttering; Andre Gerard Lee, 30, of Charleston, drug charges and retaliation; April R. Rucker, 26, of Poca, drug charges; Susan Marie Scott, 52, of St. Albans, fleeing while DUI, fleeing with reckless indifference to the safety of others, second offense DUI and driving while license revoked for DUI; Aniquejean D. Williamson, 27, of Charleston, drug charges.

n Judge Duke Bloom, Feb. 3, 9:30 a.m.

Thomas Newton Belcher, 65, of Charleston, failure to register as a sex offender; William Joseph Blake, 27, of Powellton, burglary and grand larceny; Angela Dawn Young, 35, of Powellton, burglary and grand larceny; Laurence Michael Brown, 30, of Dry Branch, burglary and petit larceny; John Robert Essex, 57, of Charleston, fourth-degree arson; Douglas Lee Landers, 35, of Point Pleasant, wanton endangerment; Heather Renee Marchal, 30, of Tad, forgery and uttering; Charles Mobley, 50, of Charleston, cultivation; Keith Grant Morris II, 27, of Winston Salem, North Carolina, drug charges; Franklin Lee Proctor II, 28, of London, drug charges; Victor Louis Rogers, 59, of Charleston, forgery and uttering and embezzlement; Rodney Dale Snead, 55, of Charleston, embezzlement.

n Judge Tod Kaufman, Feb. 8, 1 p.m.

William Edward Byers, 39, of Elkview, drug charges; Theresa D. Coles, 37, of Charleston, drug charges; Kristine Hackney, 33, of Charleston, drug charges; Edward Dewayne Jones, 43, of Charleston; drug charges.

n Judge James Stucky, Feb. 3, 10 a.m.

Stephen Cortez Belcher, 43, of Charleston, third offense domestic battery; Dana Willis Clark II, 32, of Chesapeake, second-degree robbery; Adam Harmon, 32, of Charleston, drug charges; Matthew Ryan Hunt, 29, of Belle, burglary, domestic assault, possession of stolen vehicle and fleeing in vehicle with reckless indifference to the safety of others; Thomas Leon Johnson, 42, of Chesapeake, burglary, second offense domestic battery, destruction of property and second offense violation of domestic violence protective order; Joshua Corey Longerbeam, 26, of Charleston, breaking and entering of an automobile, petit larceny, fraud and related activity in connection with an access device, breaking and entering and grand larceny; Thomas Edward Lucas, 47, of Nitro, drug charges; Melissa Higginbotham, 42, of Nitro, drug charges; Nancy Jane McCallister, 24, of Charleston, drug charges; Shawn Eldon Moore, 29, of Charleston, drug charges; Jason Daniel Payne, 33, of Alum Creek, grand larceny, fraud and related activity in connection with an access device and third offense shoplifting; Melissa Ann Mullins, 39, of Charleston, grand larceny; David Mullins, 41, of Charleston, grand larceny; Kimberly Ann Rhodes, 48, of Cross Lanes, first-degree robbery; Edward Lee Spaulding, 61, of Cedar Grove, drug charges; Lloyd Jennings Wilson Jr., 46, of Shrewsbury, grand larceny.

n Judge Joanna Tabit, Feb. 10, 2:30 p.m.

Ronnie Lee Adams Jr., 33, of St. Albans, wanton endangerment; Javen Demitrius Call, 20, of Charleston, drug charges, carrying a dangerous, deadly weapon and obstruction; Joseph Alan Campbell, 30, of Charleston, breaking and entering and destruction of property; Keith Eugene Estep, 32, of Charleston, breaking and entering, grand larceny and transferring and receiving stolen property; Dominicia Farris Harper, 30, of Montgomery, malicious wounding; Sean Wayne Means, 22, of Charleston, drug charges; Timothy Alan Ward, 33, of Buffalo, fraud and related activity in connection with an access device; Randall Douglas Woods, 60, of Charleston, wanton endangerment.

n Judge Carrie Webster, Feb. 17, 10 a.m.

James Michael Bostic, 24, of Charleston, grand larceny; Lakisha M. Hairston, 34, of Charleston, drug charges; Ryan Knight, 28, of Charleston, burglary; Tabitha Johnson, 24, of Charleston, burglary; Christopher Tyrone Perkins, 30, of Dunbar, drug charges; Dammien Jarrell Thomas, 35, of Charleston, third-offense shoplifting; Mariah Christy Young, 22, of Charleston, child concealment.