CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — A 42-year-old Preston County man has been sentenced to the maximum 10 years in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm.
HUNTINGTON – A Huntington man who was struggling with opioid addiction claims five city police officers maliciously assaulted and battered him, breaking his neck and leaving him paralyzed for life.
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – Another federal prison inmate has filed a lawsuit claiming she repeatedly was sexually assaulted by a convicted and imprisoned former correctional officer.
Laura Mellor filed her complaint December 9 in the Northern District of Alabama’s Western Division against the federal government. She says correctional officer Adrian Stargell raped and sexually abused her for nearly two years while she was an inmate at an Alabama facility.
“Prison employees raping female inmates is a pervasive problem across the country,” said Charleston attorney L. Dante diTrapano, one of the lawyers representing Mellor. “The Federal Bureau of Prisons knew Stargell abused his power and control by sexually preying on the very people he is paid to protect and keep safe.