Police and courts

Man allegedly pushes woman from car

Police arrested a St. Albans man for allegedly pushing hisgirlfriend out of a car.

In a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court,police said Kurtis L. Harris, 42, of Lower Falls Road, and hisgirlfriend had been drinking at a bar in Putnam County on Saturday.

According to the complaint, the couple started arguing aboutmoney while driving on Main Street in St. Albans.

Harris became "enraged" when the woman told him she did not have$20, Kanawha County Sheriff's Deputy F.E. Flowers wrote in thepolice report.

Harris was screaming at her, so she asked him to stop the vehicleso she could get out, the complaint said.

Police said Harris stopped the vehicle and the woman attempted toget out, but he pushed her, knocking her out and onto the groundwhere she struck her head.

The woman walked east to a nearby residence and called 911, thereport said.

According to the complaint, several minutes after police spokewith the woman, officers received a call from a nearby conveniencestore where a man was refusing to pay for gasoline.

Police identified the man as Harris, the complaint said.

The officer who responded said Harris was intoxicated, thecomplaint said.

He was charged with domestic battery and public intoxication.

Man arrested after

fight over iPod

Police said they arrested a South Charleston man for allegedlyfighting with a man over an iPod.

Edgar Warren Willis Jr., 21, of Kanawha Turnpike, was at anapartment on Garret Street early Saturday morning when he got into afight with the resident there, according to a criminal complaintfiled in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

According to the complaint, Willis lifted his shirt during thealtercation and displayed a handgun in his waistband.

The apartment resident attempted to push Willis out of theapartment, the complaint said.

The doors of an entertainment center were broken during thealtercation, the complaint said.

When South Charleston Police Lt. G.E. Amburgey arrived, the fightwas still in progress, according to the police report.

Amburgey said he separated the two men and saw Willis remove thehandgun from his waistband and toss it behind a kitchen appliance,the complaint said.

Willis was charged with concealing a dangerous weapon,brandishing a dangerous weapon and destruction of property.

U.S. 119 closed

after rock slide

Part of U.S. 119 near Mink Shoals was closed after a rock slide,said a dispatcher with Metro 911.

The slide happened about 7 p.m. Tuesday near the 2900 block ofPennsylvania Avenue, the dispatcher said.

The road has since reopened.

Cross Lanes man

wanted for battery

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a Cross Lanes manaccused of hitting his girlfriend and her son.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha MagistrateCourt, Jason Cunningham, 28, of Walnut Valley Drive, grabbed hislive-in girlfriend by the throat and pushed her down onto a couch.

Police say the incident happened Oct. 6.

According to the complaint, Cunningham punched the woman in thefacial area three to four times and slapped her with an open hand.He also tried to bend her wrist back, the complaint said.

Kanawha County Sheriff's Deputy S.C. Layne said the altercationoccurred while the woman was holding her 3-year-old son.

Cunningham also struck the child in the head, causing a bruise tohis forehead, according to the complaint.

Police said Cunningham is wanted for two counts of domesticbattery.

House fire kept

from spreading

Firefighters had to work for more than an hour to keep a housefire near North Charleston from spreading through a woodedneighborhood.

No one was injured when the residence burned at 338 BrynwoodDrive in the Knollwood area just north of Charleston Tuesdayafternoon, said Lt. Donald Milgram of the Pinch Volunteer FireDepartment.

Dispatchers received a call at 4:05 p.m. that the house of RobertL. Cross was on fire. Milgram said he left his house on nearby DutchRoad as soon as he got the call, but the house's roof was alreadyburning when he arrived.

Firefighters from the Pinch, Malden, Frame and Charlestondepartments controlled the fire and kept it from spreading to nearbyhouses in the wooded neighborhood, and by 5:30 p.m. only a few hotspots remained.

The cause of the fire was not known Tuesday night. It appeared tohave started upstairs, Milgram said.

Man charged with

domestic violence

A St. Albans man was arrested for allegedly shoving hisgirlfriend and arguing with police officers, according to a criminalcomplaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

The complaint said a neighbor reported seeing Joseph GaryJackson, 27, of Walnut Valley Drive, shoving his girlfriend andgrabbing her jacket.

Police said the woman got away and was attempting to call 911when Jackson took her phone and broke it.

St. Albans Police Patrolman C.T. Lowe said in the police reportthat he obtained a statement from the woman and she confirmed thatJackson had shoved her.

The complaint said that when officers questioned Jackson, hebegan arguing with them and ignoring their instructions.

When an officer attempted to arrest Jackson, he pulled his armsaway and became very combative, the complaint said.

Officers used a Taser twice on Jackson, the complaint said.

He was charged with domestic violence and obstructing an officer.

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