March 7, 2024 The Hancock County Sheriffs Office along with members of the Hancock-Brooke Weirton Drug Task Force, served a search warrant and arrested 2[Read More…]
Cops and Courts
HANCOCK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE JANUARY ARREST REPORT
1-9 Patrick Beaver, Newell – Trespassing 1-12 Donald Boger, New Cumberland – DWLR DUI 3rd 1-21 Joshua McElfresh, Weirton – Disorderly Conduct 1-21 Joshua Cook,[Read More…]
MICHAEL JOHNSTON, HEATHER JOHNSTON SENTENCED
Steven E. Dragisich, Prosecuting Attorney of Hancock County, West Virginia,advises the press that:On March 21, 2023, Michael Scott Johnston, who was born on June 9,[Read More…]
HANCOCK COUNTY’S SHERIFF’S ARREST LOG
Arrest Log: August Date Name From Offence 8/1 Toby Hornbeck ELO Auto Breaking and Entering, Daytime Burglary 8/1 Stecen Young Knoxville TN Auto[Read More…]
JANUARY TERM OF GRAND JURY HANDS DOWN INDICTMENTS
Hancock County, WV – Steven E. Dragisich, Hancock County Prosecuting Attorney, announces that the January 2024 Term of the Hancock County Grand Jury met this[Read More…]
SIMS PLEADS GUILTY TO ATTEMPTED MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND KIDNAPPING
Steven E. Dragisich, Prosecuting Attorney of Hancock County, West Virginia,advises the press that:On Tuesday, January 2, 2024, Charles William Sims, Jr., who was born on[Read More…]
CHESTER MAN STABBED IN BELLY; SUSPECT IN CUSTODY
Christmas Day Stabbing On December 25, 2023 at 8:31 pm the Hancock Co 911 Dispatch Center received a frantic call that a man had been[Read More…]
FATAL ACCIDENT
NEW CUMBERLAND, WV — One man is dead following a single-vehicle crash on Route 8 yesterday. Anoff-duty Chester Police officer reported the crash after he[Read More…]
BROWN ARRESTED; CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF FIVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
On November 1, 2023, at 11:34 AM A deputy from the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office initiated atraffic stop on Ohio River Blvd. in New Cumberland,[Read More…]
CHESTER POLICE DEPT. ARRESTS
Matthew Randolph, East Liverpool – DUI 1st Offense Daniel Baez, Newell – Obstructing, Fleeing on Foot and Destruction of Property Thomas Blair, East Liverpool –[Read More…]