Former Mason deputy’s wrongful termination case dismissed from Kanawha court | West Virginia Record

Though order gives him the opportunity to re-file in Mason County, a ruling in a separate case strips him of his certification.

Woman says past Mason sheriffs mismanaged estate | West Virginia Record

Gina Eads alleges Ernie Watterson, Shorty Huffman, Scott Simms and David Anthony, during their terms are sheriff, transferred more money from the estate of her grandmother, Grace Thornton, for the care of her father, Richard Gaylor, than they were supposed to.

Former Mason deputy challenging certification revocation, termination | West Virginia Record

Eric Lynch alleges he was forced out of Sheriff's Department due to "racial prejudice."

Lynch also alleged race a factor in '02 termination in Chesapeake | West Virginia Record

Lawsuit maintains town officials tolerated misconduct by white police officers.

Former deputy sheriff sues Mason school chief for defamation | The West Virginia Record

A former Mason County Sheriff's deputy alleges the superintendent of schools defamed him in remarks she gave to the media about him being investigated for making inappropriate remarks about a student's T-shirt.

Suzanne Dickens is named in a three-count defamation suit filed by Robert Glenn in Mason Circuit Court. In his complaint filed March 9, Glenn alleges Dickens last year prematurely affirmed to a television station Glenn, while working as the prevention resource officer at Hannan Senior and Junior High School sexually harassed a female student.

In West Virginia, prevention resource officers are uniformed police officers who, among other things, serve as security guards in public schools, and teach students about bullying.

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Mason sheriff resigns, pleads to fraud and firearms-related charges | The West Virginia Record

The law enforcement career of one West Virginia sheriff has come to end following his resignation from office, and entering pleas to charges he both endangered the life of his son and defrauded the county.

David Lee Anthony II appeared in Mason Circuit Court March 6 to plead guilty to four charges of the 42-count indictment returned against him in January by the grand jury. In tendering his plea, Anthony, 42, agreed to plead guilty to charges of brandishing, and shooting near a dwelling and no contest to charges of fraudulent scheme and embezzlement, all misdemeanors.

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Photo:  Former Mason County Sheriff David Anthony II, foreground, exits the courtroom after entering a plea agreement to four counts of a 42-count indictment returned against him in January. The plea agreement called for Anthony both resigning as sheriff, and dropping his bid for re-election which negated a scheduled hearing next month by a three-judge panel to consider a petition filed by the county comission for his impeachment, and removal from office.

Mason sheriff faces removal effort in midst of criminal charges | The West Virginia Record

Before May's primary election, Mason County Sheriff David Anthony II's bid for re-election will have to successfully run a gauntlet of legal and political trials next month.

The Mason County Commission on Feb. 13 filed a petition in Mason Circuit Court for Anthony's impeachment, and removal as sheriff. The petition cites four counts of malfeasance of office as ground for Anthony's removal that include nearly $2,500 in unauthorized expenditures last year in Florida, his arrest in November for discharging a handgun over the head of his 14-year-old son and applying for and receiving grant money without the Commission's knowledge or consent.

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Judge reverses Mason deputy's termination | West Virginia Record

Evans issues ruling saying Sheriff Anthony had a clear duty to provide Robert Glenn a pre-disciplinary hearing beforing firing him last March.

Former Mason deputy appeals firing | West Virginia Record

Termination result of alleged comment made on Hannan High School student's T-shirt.

Mason deputy wants domestic violence order tossed | West Virginia Record

Sgt. Robert E. Fruth II, currently on suspension due to criminal charges for violating it, alleges Magistrate Gail Roush did not verify information his estranged wife, Melissa, submitted.

Mason Deputy Arrested for domestic violence | WCHS-TV8/WVAH FOX 11

Second time since 2006 Robert Fruth has been charged.

Deputies arrest Ohio fugitive | The Charleston Gazette

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. -- Mason County sheriff's deputies arrested an Ohio man early Sunday morning in Point Pleasant who is wanted by authorities in several states.

The Mason Sheriff's Department received information that a black 2003 Honda Pilot stolen in Kentucky might be located at a home on Lewis Street in Point Pleasant, a news release said. While searching the home, deputies found Timothy James Triplett hiding behind a bed, the release said. Triplett, 36, is from Portland, Ohio.

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A Mobile Meth Lab Found in Mason County

WTAP - TV 3 Parkersburg reports one man arrested over the weekend in conjunction with the incident

K-9 officer sues for overtime pay

HUNTINGTON - A Mason County sheriff's deputy and canine officer has filed suit against the Mason County Commission, alleging he was not paid overtime for hours he spent taking care of the dog with which he was assigned to work.

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False arrest case moved to federal court

HUNTINGTON - A Mason County man who alleges the actions of two fellow residents and two sheriff's deputies led to him being falsely arrested and subsequently prosecuted will now have to prove his case in federal rather than state court.

David Mohler, attorney for Mike Cooper, moved to have a civil suit filed against his client from Mason Circuit Court to U.S. District Court.

In his notice of removal filed Nov. 19, Mohler, with the Charleston law firm of Bowles, Rice, McDavid, Graff and Love said federal court is the better venue to test the claims Shawn Barker levels against Cooper and the other defendants in violating his rights under the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to U.S. Constitution.

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