PRINCETON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A Mercer County man is facing a malicious wounding charge after allegedly emerging from the woods and striking a pedestrian in the head with a brick.
Princeton police responded to a reported battery on Shopview Avenue at approximately 1:41 p.m. Friday, September 11.
The victim, identified as Justin Hess, told officers he had been walking home along Roundhouse Road when a bald man came out of the woods yelling profanities and holding a brick.
According to the criminal

BLUEFIELD, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A woman in police custody allegedly fled from an ambulance, attempted to grab an officer’s firearm and bit him during a struggle in Bluefield.
According to the Bluefield Police Department, Tonya Stafford was being held at the Bluefield City Jail on city charges when she complained of chest pain and requested medical attention Friday, September 11.
Stafford was placed inside an ambulance for transport to WVU Medicine Bluefield Regional Medical Center while a police

BLUEFIELD, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A JCPenney employee is facing a criminal charge after allegedly using a cellphone to record a man inside a restroom stall at Mercer Mall.
According to the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department, a deputy responded to the JCPenney store on Mercer Mall Road shortly after 7 p.m. on September 12.
Brian Rode told the deputy that he was seated inside a restroom stall when another man entered the adjoining stall. Rode alleged that the man raised a cellphone over the divider and

MATOAKA, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A man was arrested after an eviction dispute allegedly turned violent at a Mercer County residence Sunday afternoon.
Mercer County deputies responded to an unwanted guest complaint at a home on Piedmont Road in Matoaka at approximately 1:42 p.m. on September 13.
According to the criminal complaint, James Tooley told deputies that he and his brother, Tommy Tooley, went to the residence to inform Shawna Jenkins that she was being evicted.
James Tooley said the discussion