Keno players robbed at Embassy Suites

Two men with a gun robbed players in the Keno room of the Embassy Suites in Charleston on Tuesday night, police said.

Around 11 p.m., the suspects asked a man and a woman who were playing Keno if they had ever been robbed, said Sgt. Aaron James of the Charleston Police Department.

The victims thought the men were joking and said no. The men said, "You're being robbed," and demanded money from the victims, according to police.

One the robbers had a gun and chambered a round into it. The suspects got away with one player's wallet before leaving in an unknown direction.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective D.S. Paxton at 348-6480.

Police seeking suspect in 7-Eleven robbery

Police are still looking for a man who robbed and punched a woman inside the 7-Eleven on Washington Street West last weekend. 

The victim was paying for cigarettes in the early morning of Oct. 25 when a man grabbed her wallet and tried to run out of the store at 814 Washington St. W., according to the Charleston Police Department.

The woman pulled her wallet back, but the suspect grabbed her by the neck and slammed her to the ground, police said. The robber then punched her and took the wallet again before running out of the store toward Virginia Street.

Several people were inside the store, but no one tried to help the woman. The suspect had come into the store with a group of other males.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective D.S. Paxton at 348-6480.

Man sought for shooting inside apartment house

Police are searching for a man they say shot inside an apartment building early in October.

Corneal Cooper, 32, has 10 felony warrants for one burglary charge and nine counts of wanton endangerment, according to Charleston Police.

On Oct. 9, Cooper allegedly broke into 848 Westminster Way through a backdoor window, police said. He then made his way to the stairwell, where several people had run upstairs, including women and an infant child.

Cooper allegedly began shooting up the stairwell, before one of the victims shot back. He then ran from the scene. No one was injured, police said.

Cooper is 6-foot-2, weighs 200 pounds, and his hair was braided when the alleged incident happened. He is black and has two large moles on the left side of his face.

Cooper has stayed at the men's shelter in Charleston and has also had addresses in Huntington and Washington, D.C., police said. He also has been known to go to the New Jersey-New York area.

Two men with a gun robbed players in the Keno room of the Embassy Suites in Charleston on Tuesday night, police said.

Around 11 p.m., the suspects asked a man and a woman who were playing Keno if they had ever been robbed, said Sgt. Aaron James of the Charleston Police Department.

The victims thought the men were joking and said no. The men said, "You're being robbed," and demanded money from the victims, according to police.

One the robbers had a gun and chambered a round into it. The suspects got away with one player's wallet before leaving in an unknown direction.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective D.S. Paxton at 348-6480.

Police seeking suspect in 7-Eleven robbery

Police are still looking for a man who robbed and punched a woman inside the 7-Eleven on Washington Street West last weekend. 

The victim was paying for cigarettes in the early morning of Oct. 25 when a man grabbed her wallet and tried to run out of the store at 814 Washington St. W., according to the Charleston Police Department.

The woman pulled her wallet back, but the suspect grabbed her by the neck and slammed her to the ground, police said. The robber then punched her and took the wallet again before running out of the store toward Virginia Street.

Several people were inside the store, but no one tried to help the woman. The suspect had come into the store with a group of other males.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective D.S. Paxton at 348-6480.

Man sought for shooting inside apartment house

Police are searching for a man they say shot inside an apartment building early in October.

Corneal Cooper, 32, has 10 felony warrants for one burglary charge and nine counts of wanton endangerment, according to Charleston Police.

On Oct. 9, Cooper allegedly broke into 848 Westminster Way through a backdoor window, police said. He then made his way to the stairwell, where several people had run upstairs, including women and an infant child.

Cooper allegedly began shooting up the stairwell, before one of the victims shot back. He then ran from the scene. No one was injured, police said.

Cooper is 6-foot-2, weighs 200 pounds, and his hair was braided when the alleged incident happened. He is black and has two large moles on the left side of his face.

Cooper has stayed at the men's shelter in Charleston and has also had addresses in Huntington and Washington, D.C., police said. He also has been known to go to the New Jersey-New York area.

Police searching for Kmart purse-snatcher

Police are looking for information on a man who snatched a woman's purse outside the Kmart in the Patrick Street Plaza on Oct. 20.

The woman was getting into her car after buying dog food at the store when a white man approached her, according to Charleston Police. He pushed her into the back of the car, took her purse and started running toward Patrick Street.

Loss-prevention officers chased the man, but lost him near Horns Alley.

Investigators later found the purse and some of its contents near the railroad tracks near the KRT Station at Stockton Street, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective D.S. Paxton at 348-6480.

Threat of Taser ends mayhem at Cabin Creek

Eastern Kanawha County's traditional Halloween season mayhem ended Thursday after sheriff's deputies threatened to use a Taser gun on a Cabin Creek man.

Lt. Sean Crosier of the Kanawha County Sheriff's Department said trick-or-treat was largely uneventful around the county on Thursday, but police responded to numerous debris fires, downed trees and "general disobedience" in Cabin Creek, Rand and Chelyan between 9 and 10:30 p.m. The area has historically been a trouble spot for Halloween pranksters.

Deputies made one arrest in Cabin Creek after vandals set a piece of furniture on fire in the middle of the street. Crosier said Anthony Ray Armstrong, 36, of Cabin Creek, appeared out of the darkness, ran through a group of deputies and leapt over the smoldering debris before being ordered to stop.

Armstrong, clad in a ski mask, tank top and long underwear pants, turned to fight deputies, Crosier said. But when threatened with the use of a Taser gun he gave up.

Armstrong was arrested for public intoxication and taken to CARES.

Man jailed for alleged burglary of Pratt store

A Gallagher man was in jail this morning after allegedly breaking into a convenience store in Pratt.

Gale Clarence Brown, 37, allegedly smashed a window at the M and M Stop and Shop on W.Va. 61 in Pratt at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha Magistrate Court.

Once inside, Brown allegedly made off with "four or five cases of Budweiser beer, several cans of snuff and several packs of various brands of cigarettes," according to Pratt Police Chief Eric Eagle.

Eagle said witnesses saw Brown run out of the building and down an embankment behind the store. Police found him at the bottom of the embankment with a black sports bag containing the stolen items nearby.

Brown had a hammer in his back pocket.

Brown was charged with a single felony count of breaking and entering. He was in the South Central Regional Jail on Friday in lieu of a $10,000 bond.