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Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Yahoo
Woman charged with stabbing ex-boyfriend
PRINCETON – A Mercer County woman has been charged malicious assault after allegedly stabbing her ex-boyfriend with what he called "a Rambo knife." Badia A. Miller, 51, of Bluefield was charged with a felony charge of malicious assault and misdemeanor domestic battery after Patrolman D.W. Lester with the Bluefield Police Department was dispatched to a College Avenue apartment June 3 about a reported stabbing. Lester found the victim standing his living room with a large knife wound below the center of his chest, according to the criminal complaint filed at the Mercer County Magistrate Clerk's Office. He told Lester that his ex-girlfriend, Badia Miller, had stabbed him and fled the scene in a Chevy Cruze sedan. The victim was transported to the emergency room on Princeton Community Hospital's Bluefield location. There he told Lester that he had been arguing with Miller about him sharing texts with other women and because she had taken his house key and refused to give it back, according to the criminal complaint. He asked her to leave several times because he was afraid his landlord would complain about her causing a disturbance and evict him. "She refused to leave and pulled out a knife that he described as 'a Rambo knife' stabbing him right below the center of his chest, near his sternum leaving leaving a laceration of about two centimeters deep, and four centimeters in length," Lester said in his report. "There was also a cut below the initial stab wound from where the knife was pulled out in (a) downward slashing motion." On June 4, Lester was patrolling College Avenue when he saw a black Chevy Cruze with a West Virginia license plate number matching one observed on city cameras when the stabbing occurred, according to the criminal complaint. Lester conducted a traffic stop and the driver identified herself as Badia Miller. She consented to a search inside her vehicle. "When doing so, I observed a pair of flip flops hidden under bags in the trunck with what appeared to be blood on both sides of them," Lester said in his report. A knife matching the one described by the victim was also found, Lester said. After being transported to the police department, Miller was read her Miranda Rights and agreed to be interviewed without a lawyer present, Lester said in the report. She called the victim an ex-boyfriend and someone she stayed with frequently. Lester then said they had been drinking and he began to touch her, "which made her upset." Miller stated that she bit the victim on the nose, which did not draw blood, and left shortly after, according to the criminal complaint. She stated that she left to get more alcohol for herself, but saw EMS and police at the scene when she returned to the house. She then said that she went her ex-boyfriend's apartment door and knocked, but there was no answer and did not further check on him. Lester said Miller was seen several times on video surveillance driving through the city, "which contradicted several of her statements." On June 4, Miller asked to speak again with detectives before she was arraigned by a magistrate, Lester said in the report. She said that she was drinking with her ex-boyfriend when they argued. "At this time she stated she pulled her knife and used it for protection but did not remember pulling it out of the sheath," Lester said. "She stated she didn't know she cut him until we advised there was something on the knife. After further evaluating the sheath, it is cut and the knife come out the end of it, so it could've been in the sheath when she stabbed him in the chest." Miller was arraigned before Magistrate Susan Honaker and remanded to the Southern Regional Jail on a $10,000 cash or surety bond, according to court records. Malicious assault is a felony with a possible term of two to 10 years in prison, according to the West Virginia Code. Domestic battery is a misdemeanor with a possible term of up to 12 months in jail.
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Man charged with disinterment of a body
princeton – A Mercer County man is facing up to five years in prison after being charged with a felony count of disinterment or displacement of a dead body. Daniel Lee Agnew, 36, of Princeton has been charged with disinterment or displacement of a dead body along with a felony count of destruction of property, according to the criminal complaint at the Mercer County Magistrate Clerk's Office. The case began May 23 when Patrolman T.D. Cook with the Princeton Police Department responded around 8:13 a.m. to a home in reference to a destruction of property report, according to the criminal complaint. Cook said in the complaint that when he arrived, he spoke to the home's resident who told him that her ex-boyfriend, Daniel Agnew, had thrown her belongings into the yard and destroyed them. 'I observed a large amount of clothes, a TV, and a bed in the yard, all of which had visible mud tire tracks from an ATV where it had been run over,' Cook said. The clothing, television, bed and a laptop computer were destroyed. Cook estimated that the total loss was around $4,650. On that same day, Cook spoke to the woman again about a separate incident. She stated that she had miscarried in 2023 and had the child's remains preserved, according to the criminal complaint. 'The child was inside a biohazard container, which was sealed inside a larger, permanently sealed container,' Cook said. The woman said the she had told Agnew about the container, which was on a nightstand, and what was inside it, according to the complaint. 'While Agnew was tossing her things into the yard, the container with her baby was one of the items tossed,' Cook said. The permanent container's contents became visible after being run over with an ATV, Cook said. In the report, Cook said that woman told him that she and Agnew had broken up 'due to the fact he said that she 'smoked too much.'' 'On or around May 10 2025, the two were riding the ATV when Agnew flew into a spout of rage and purposely flipped the vehicle on its top,' he said. There was also another domestic altercation that day. A domestic violence petition was filed and Agnew came to the Princeton Police Department to be served. While there, he was placed under arrest for felony destruction of property and disinterment or displacement of a dead body, according to the criminal complaint. Agnew was arraigned before Magistrate William Holroyd and was later freed on a $10,000 cash or surety bond, according to court records. Felony destruction of property has a prison term of one to 10 years in prison. Disinterment or displacement of a dead body has a prison term of up to five years, according to the West Virginia Code. Contact Greg Jordan at gjordan@
Yahoo
15-02-2025
- Yahoo
Bond reduced for suspect in attempted murder case
princeton – Bond was reduced Thursday for a suspect who was charged with attempted murder after allegedly shooting a woman Feb. 1 near Athens. Summer Lee Anne Thornton, 22, of Bluefield was scheduled Thursday morning for a preliminary hearing before Magistrate William Holroyd. Thornton is facing charges including attempted murder and wanton endangerment in connection with a shooting Feb. 1 which left another woman with life-threatening injuries. Thornton waived the preliminary hearing, so the case will be forwarded to the Mercer County Grand Jury. A bond hearing was convened after the preliminary hearing was waived. Attorney Patrick Erickson, who is representing Thornton, moved that his client's $100,000 cash-only bond be changed to an $80,000 cash or surety bond with a condition of home confinement if that bond is posted. Magistrate Holroyd approved the motion. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Jennifer Poff represented the state. An investigation began Feb. 1 around 3:09 a.m. when Detective M.T. Hatfield with the Mercer County Sheriff's Department received a call from Sgt. G.C. Paitsel with the sheriff's department about a gunshot wound victim, according to a criminal complaint filed at the Mercer County Magistrate Clerk's Office. 'He said that the shooting had occurred inside a vehicle, in a wide spot off W.V. Route 20 just outside the town of Athens and requested I respond and take the lead in the investigation,' Hatfield said in the complaint. 'Also, Paitsel told me that a female who was in the vehicle at the time of the shooting was on-scene and a male who was in the vehicle at the time of the shooting had called into Mercer 911 requesting to speak with law enforcement.' A Taurus Spectrum .380–caliber handgun was found in the front passenger seat and a live round was in the front passenger floorboard as well as a fired cartridge case, Hatfield said in the complaint. When Detective Hatfield interviewed Thornton at the sheriff's department, she said that the victim was driving when they were traveling south on Route 20 towards Athens, according to the criminal complaint. The victim said they were running out of gas and started parking in a wide spot just outside of Athens. That was when a gunshot went off. Thornton said she did not see where the gunshot came from, but noticed the victim had been shot. Hatfield later went to the Charleston Area Medical Center and spoke with the victim, according to the criminal complaint. The victim said that when she pulled over in the wide spot after the vehicle ran out of gas, 'that is when she felt and saw Summer (Thornton) place the gun against her side and fire the handgun.' The victim also said 'she thought Summer shot her due to jealousy' because a male individual who was with them had been rubbing her shoulder and Thornton had seen that, according to the criminal complaint. Contact Greg Jordan at gjordan@
