WEST VIRGINIA KNIFE AND GUN CLUB - Wrech Attack, Juvenile Glues Monitoring Device To Cat

(07/08/2004)
GIRL GLUES MONITORING DEVICE TO CAT - A 14-year-old Mercer County girl charged with stabbing her father to death has escaped home confinement by removing an electronic monitoring device from her ankle and placing it on a cat.

Stephen Collins, Director of Home Confinement, said removing an electronic monitoring device is difficult. "It's not something you can just snatch off or take off," he said.

Kayla Marie LaSala escaped from her uncle's house early Saturday. The officer said the monitoring device was super-glued to a cat.

Warrants have been issued for the girl. The cat is fine.

NOT A KNIFE,A WRENCH - A St. Albans woman has been charged with malicious wounding after hitting another woman in the head with a ratchet yesterday morning, police said.

Carrie Pauley, 18, struck Lisa Simmons twice on Simmons' head with a large steel ratchet.

She was treated for a bloody 2-inch wound to the right side of her head and released.

The fight started after Simmons called her boyfriend's home on Crescent Road in Charleston and Pauley answered the phone. Simmons went to her boyfriend's home and confronted Pauley.

Police said the boyfriend would not let spectators stop the fight.

MAN STABS GIRLFRIEND TWO DOZEN TIMES - A Martinsburg man accused of stabbing his former girlfriend to death three years ago will go on trial this week.

Thirty-six-year-old Miguel Delgado is charged with the stabbing death of his girlfriend.

Police say he stabbed 29-year-old Robyn Renee Richardson nearly two dozen times with a kitchen knife in June 2001.

AUTO RIDDLED WITH BULLETS - Joshua Paul Caudill, 18, of Charleston, was shot in the leg while riding in a car. Police say he knew the person who pulled the trigger.

When his car pulled up to the intersection on Charleston's West Side, two black males pulled up in a white pickup truck and a weapon .

Several bullet holes went through the car, police said.