Tag Archives: West Virginia Police

Guy Posted About Local Cops on Facebook – They Arrest Him For it!

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Paul O’Brien, who lives in Grafton, West Virginia, observed a Taylor County Sheriff’s Deputy running a speed trap across the road from his residence. He posted on Facebook about it, joking that he WISHED he had an M-80 (firecracker) so that he could set it off and cause the deputy to have a heart attack. In the same post, he criticized the department for the deaths of three individuals over the years. Deputy Cody Mayle of the TCSD then paid Paul a visit at his home. He had no warrant, but rather just wanted to “talk.”

When Paul decided he didn’t want to talk with Deputy Mayle, Deputy Mayle suddenly grabbed him and arrested him. Paul spent two nights in jail. Around three months later, the frivolous charge of “obstruction” was dropped, since it was admittedly frivolous, according to the prosecutor. Paul submitted a complaint to the department, but heard nothing back.

This is Deputy Cody Mayle, who is seen on bodycam laughing as soon as Paul was thrown in the holding cell:

My last West Virginia based video coincidentally, was from Barbour County, which is only the next county over, and that deputy also has the same last name – Mayle. Here’s a link to that video. I’ll have more information soon about that situation…

This is the location of the incident:

Here’s the police report / charging document:

Here’s the dismissal order:

Cops KILL Man for Driving ATV in Neighbor’s Yard!

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A federal lawsuit was filed after a man was shot and killed by a Princeton (West Virginia) Police Officer inside his own house, following allegations from his neighbor that he had been riding his ATV through the neighbor’s yard. The officers were captured on bodycam footage engaging in an investigation within the curtilage of the man’s yard, and ultimately kicking in the door and shooting him. The officer who shot and killed the man claimed that the man had a baseball bat and refused to drop it. Conveniently however, he wasn’t wearing a bodycam, despite a department policy mandating that he do so. Some of the shooting was captured on another officer’s bodycam. It was recently released by the family’s lawyers.

The full lawsuit, with deposition transcript:

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County Official EXPOSED Himself to Woman in a Park | Year-Long Coverup, but now BODYCAM Released!

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About a year ago, a woman called 911 reporting that a man had exposed himself to her in Daniel Boone Park, located in Charleston, West Virginia. She told the responding officer that she recognized the man from TV. As it turns out, it was Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper. Within days of the incident, Mr. Carper’s family told the media that he had a heart attack and the allegations were just an “awful misunderstanding” related to a health emergency.

In the ensuing year, Mr. Carper remained on the county commission, while the public was kept far, far away from the bodycam footage documenting the incident. Now the footage has been released. It shows that the responding officer began the coverup from the very first minute.

Media report here.

The MOST Ignorant WV Cops Yet! | Exclusive Bodycam | LAWSUIT Inbound

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Here’s brand-new body cam footage, never before seen on the internet or media, of two police officers in Preston County, West Virginia absolutely tearing the Fourth Amendment to shreds, while apparently completely oblivious to what they were doing. It all started with a property dispute between neighbors. One of the neighbors called the police to try and persuade them to abuse their authority and arrest his neighbor due to a car allegedly being parked on his property. At first they correctly told the man that they couldn’t do that, but then for some reason they related, and did exactly that. I’m representing the man and will be filing a lawsuit shortly….

Uncut Raw Violence Clips:

I can’t wait to ask the officers under oath where in that footage he committed two counts of battery on an officer:

Perhaps it was here?

Or here, where his feet are both off the ground, his face hurling towards his porch deck, as his rotator cuff is tearing?

Here’s the survey screenshot:

Here’s the tax map boundaries, which appear to line up with the survey plat, both of which show the location where the car is parked to be either a public right of way, or perhaps an alleyway owned by neither party:

Here’s the police report excerpt:

Here’s the actual dismissal order:

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Cop’s Crazy Rampage | Coverup Caught on Video | Lawsuit Filed

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Recently we filed a lawsuit against several police officers, as well as the City of Bluefield, West Virginia, after an off-duty Bluefield police officer essentially went on a rampage in my client’s bar. He got into a shootout; he physically attacked multiple civilians, including police officers, and more. It was all observed by multiple eyewitnesses and was captured on video from multiple cameras. But did he face any consequences?

Original full video:

A Bus Driver’s Nightmare | It Could Happen to Anyone

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If you think that being falsely arrested can’t happen to you, then you have to watch this video. This video shows my client being arrested for DUI even though she was stone cold sober. This can, and does, happen to innocent people across the country. Here you will see an egregious example of this happening, as it plays out in real time on the officer’s bodycam.

My client, Yolanda Elliott, was a bus driver for the City of Bluefield, West Virginia. Mrs. Elliott is a completely innocent, hardworking good person. She was a bus driver for the actual city that ended up arresting her. She had then, and still has, a CDL license to drive large buses and trucks. Little did she know that when she showed up for work that day, on October 28, 2022, she would be pulled over while driving a city bus, accused of running a red light, and then pulled out of her bus and forced to perform a bunch of circus tricks, while the passenger of her bus watched.

Here’s the “Scary Sign Arrest” video, also from Bluefield, WV Police Department.

BREAKING: Sheriff Charged in Coverup

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The elected sheriff of Berkeley County, West Virginia has just been indicted by a grand jury on charges related to a video I showed you about 8 months ago where he showed up to a car wreck involving his daughter. Do you remember this? On January 20, it was reported in the media that Berkeley County prosecutor Catie Delligatti was requesting the appointment of a special prosecutor, in response to the public’s response to the video footage showing that county’s elected sheriff, Nathan Harmon, responding to the scene of his 22 year old daughter’s extremely suspicious car wreck.

The wreck happened on January 6. The sheriff’s daughter, Carrie Harmon, claimed that she was driving to her friend’s house to have dinner and watch movies, but that a deer ran out in front of her; the road were wet, and she swerved to avoid the deer and then wrecked. 

But what really appears to have happened is that her father helped her coverup the fact that what really happened is that she was driving while intoxicated. Most of us, after having crashed while under the influence, would have been actually investigated by the responding police officers. This means that they would have tested our breath for alcohol, given us field sobriety tests and so on. But that’s not what happened here. Why? Because the investigating officer who responded was a deputy for the same county where the driver’s father was the sheriff. 

Here’s my original video on this with the full footage:

Cops Assumed They Were Criminals | Huge Update!

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Remember the case where my clients were harassed and arrested on a private home’s front porch, just because cops assumed they were responsible for some marijuana plants growing on a nearby property? Huge update: We just received a big ruling from the Court.

Original full video here.

Here’s the Order:

Innocent Man Arrested & Charged | Should We File a Lawsuit?

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This is a West Virginia case – bodycam of a traffic stop for lack of an inspection sticker and warrantless arrest. This involves the Martinsburg Police Department and Patrolman Daniel Smith. The guy in the video, D.J. Beard, wants to file a lawsuit. You tell me, what do you think? Does he have a case, in your opinion? Mr. Beard was almost immediately arrested for allegedly refusing to get out of his car. Is that what the footage shows?

This is the same police department that pulled over, and arrested, Corey Lambert, as featured in another video (different officer though).

Here are the criminal case filings, including the charging documents, police report narrative, as well as the dismissal orders:

Client’s Dash Cam Exposed Bad Cop | TWO Lawsuits Filed

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Yesterday, we filed two federal civil rights lawsuits against the City of Mount Hope, West Virginia and their former police officer, Aaron Shrewsbury. This small town of only about 1,000 people set up a notorious speed trap on a nearby four-lane highway. In what was apparently a cost-cutting measure, the local police chief got a disgraced and de-certified police officer, who had been previously fired for dishonesty from another department, re-certified with the state. That officer was Aaron Shrewsbury, who was finally exposed when my client, Brian Beckett, got pulled over for speeding last year while on his way home from work.

Here is where Officer Shrewsbury was decertified in 2015 for dishonesty:

Here are the details, police report, and original video from Brian’s traffic stop and arrest.

The second lawsuit alleges that Officer Shrewsbury punched another one of my client’s, Nathan Nelson, in the face with a closed fist while Nathan was handcuffed and in his custody, breaking Nathan’s jaw in two places and dislodging a tooth. Then he dumped Nathan in the back of another agency’s police cruiser.

Here are the details, police report and medical records from Nathan’s arrest.