MERCER SHERIFF
Jan. 9
• DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY: Dep. G.C. Paitsel and Dep. A.M. Ballard responded to Auto Lane in Gardner Estates, where a complainant advised he and a neighbor were holding a possible prowler at gunpoint. When officers arrived, they instructed all three parties to lie face-down on the ground and cuffed them all for officer safety. The complainant alleged he awoke to hear someone yelling and beating on his front door. He looked outside and reportedly saw the suspect beating on his car window. He reported calling the neighbor, and the two residents confronted the suspect. While officers talked with the two complainants, the alleged suspect reportedly yelled, cursed and threatened the officers. Cody James Yates, 22, of North Tazewell and Princeton, allegedly smelled of alcohol and offered statements that made little sense. He was charged with destruction of property, disorderly conduct and public intoxication.
• BREAKING AND ENTERING (AUTO): Dep. J.R. Coburn responded to a breaking-and-entering complaint involving a vehicle on Warden Avenue. The complainant advised the passenger side window of his car was broken and that his wife's purse was missing. The officer did not locate any footprints in the snow or speak with neighbors, due to the time at which the crime was reported.
Jan. 10
• DUI: Dep. A.M. Ballard and Dep. G.C. Paitsel responded to Lorton Lick Road, where a caller reported someone trying to steal two ATVs. Ballard reported seeing a subject traveling east on an ATV toward downtown Montcalm with an inoperable. Paitsel followed fresh ATV tracks in the snow onto Simmons River Road and up the hill to Montcalm High School. Officers located a subject on an ATV, who denied traveling where Ballard saw the previous subject. He allegedly reported having two beers earlier in the day and reportedly smelled strongly of alcohol. When Bryon Keith Hale, 29, of Bluefield, allegedly failed a field sobriety test and registered over the legal alcohol limit, he was taken into custody and transported to Bluefield Police Department for holding.
Jan. 11
• POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DELIVER: Sgt. S.J. Cary reported seeing a black Honda Civic heading north in Kegley without a valid motor vehicle inspection sticker. The officer followed the vehicle, seeing it turn left onto West Virginia Route 10. Cary initiated a traffic stop and reported a strong smell of marijuana coming from the car. A search of the driver reportedly revealed pink pills determined not to be a controlled substance, but the 15-year-old passenger was allegedly concealing a container of marijuana in the waistband of his pants. A second container carrying traces of marijuana was also allegedly recovered. Joseph Allen Hall Jr., 19, of Lashmeet, and the juvenile were taken into custody. Hall was placed in jail to await arraignment. The juvenile was released to his parents' custody.
• DOMESTIC BATTERY: Dep. W.E. Rose responded to Harry Street in Bluefield, where a complainant reported her husband had struck her in the face several times during an argument. Zachary Noel Howington, 24, of Bluefield, was arrested.
• BURGLARY: Dep. M.S. Horn responded an apartment on Warden Avenue, where a complainant reported he had left his apartment unlocked earlier in the day and returned to find his clothes in disarray and a Nintendo Wii game system missing. The complainant reported other items, including two pillowcases were missing. The officer reported he believed the suspect used the pillowcases to remove items from the home.
• GRAND LARCENY: Dep. E.P. Parks responded to Stony Ridge Road, where a complainant reported someone entered a home through a window in a child's bedroom and removed PlayStation and Wii game systems, along with various games and a pair of earrings. Parks examined the scene and located footprints in the snow that appeared to be from a suspect wearing size 9-10 shoe. The case was forwarded to the detective bureau.
Jan. 12
• BURGLARY, GRAND LARCENY: Sgt. S.J. Cary reported to Pam's House of Hair on Country Girl Road. A complainant there reported someone entered her apartment forcibly and removed a 50-inch, flat-screen TV. While at the scene, Cary received word that the complainant was wanted on a warrant in Bluefield, Va. Shawna Dunn, 18, of Princeton, was arrested.
• DOMESTIC BATTERY: Dep. M.S. Horn arrested Jimmy Ray Kelly Jr., 34, of Bluefield, when he turned himself in on a domestic battery warrant.
• TRESPASSING, PETIT LARCENY: Dep. M.S. Horn arrested William Albert Palmer, 44, of Wolfe, when he turned himself in on warrants for the listed charges.
Jan. 13
• OBSTRUCTING: Dep. J.D. Ellison arrested Amanda West, 28, of Princeton, on a warrant that alleged obstruction.
Police Blotter
January 20, 2010
Mercer Sheriff – Jan. 9-13, 2010
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- Bluefield Police Department — Feb. 6, 2012
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- Mercer County Sheriff's Department — Jan. 21-25, 2012
- Princeton Police Department — Jan, 20-23, 2012
- Bluefield Police Department — Jan. 30, 2012
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