North Matewan News

Seated in Mingo County Magistrate Court awaiting their arraignment on child abuse and child neglect charges are James Carl Mitchell, Jennifer Rose Chafin, Qiana Nicole Harmon and Joshua Joe Friend.

A trooper with the Williamson Detachment of the West Virginia State Police arrested a Matewan woman after she allegedly provided false information to law enforcement, claiming to have been forced to engage in sexual intercourse at gunpoint and also robbed of several hundred dollars.

A man charged with firing a weapon after he got into an alleged online argument was one of several arrests made by Mingo County Sheriff's Department over the weekend.

A Red Jacket resident that has eluded law enforcement for nearly 2 months hired a local attorney to represent him and was instructed to turn himself in to Williamson Police Chief C.D. Rockel, who is also the Mingo County Drug Task Force Special Investigator, in Magistrate Court on Monday on an outstanding warrant that had been obtained against him ... (more)