A busy Morgan County Grand Jury handed down indictments on September 11 against 55 people for felony charges ranging from sexually abusing a preschooler to armed robbery and assorted thefts, burglaries and frauds.
Two dozen people were indicted by the Morgan County Grand Jury on Tuesday, September 4 as a direct result of an undercover drug investigation by the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department.
Tensions were thick in the courtroom on Monday afternoon as final sentencing was announced for James T. Zell of Berkeley Springs in the strangling murder of his pregnant girlfriend last year.
Two brothers were sentenced in connection with theft of railroad property and several others were sent to jail after their probations were revoked by Judge Andrew Frye in Morgan County Circuit Court in recent weeks.
