Felony Arrests Made Over Weekend in Wheeling
Wheeling police served a nine-count indictment for drug and conspiracy charges on a Cleveland man after a traffic stop late Sunday.
Police served the indictment after they stopped Tony Perry McCoy, 36, at 11:43 p.m. along Eagle Court in Wheeling for allegedly driving left of center and for a stop sign violation, according to police department spokesman Philip Stahl and police documents.
The indictment, from Ohio County Prosecutor Scott Smith’s office, lists four counts of delivery of a controlled substance and five counts of conspiracy.
In an unrelated incident, police found drugs at 11 a.m. Saturday in a parking lot in Elm Grove.
“It appears someone found a suspected bag of crack cocaine lying in the McDonald’s parking lot” at 101 Kruger St., Stahl said. Those drugs will be sent away for testing.
Also over the weekend, Ohio County Magistrate Joe Roxby arraigned three people Saturday who face felony charges:
∫ Alfaygo Alexander Nightengale, 41, of 16 Clearview Ave., Wheeling, faces two counts of drug possession with intent to deliver and one count of reckless fleeing in a vehicle. Roxby arraigned Nightengale and set bond at $10,000, cash only, which Nightengale posted, according to court documents.
At about 2:07 p.m. Saturday, foot patrol officers in East Wheeling followed an odor of marijuana smoke to a car’s open door on 14th Street near Lane G. After police told Nightengale to exit the vehicle, Nightengale, whom police know from prior incidents, refused, shut his door and drove away with the trunk open, according to a criminal complaint.
More units were called, and police caught up with him along Jacob Street, between 15th and 16th streets.
A K-9 unit helped officers locate a marijuana roach in the center console of the car Nightengale was driving, and police found clear, plastic bags packed with powder cocaine, and one containing marijuana, on and along Wood Street between Lane 14 and 17th Street, where Nightengale had driven while trying to flee police, the complaint states.
Police found a prior conviction from a 1998 arrest by the U.S. Marshals Service, for possession of cocaine with intent to deliver. Nightengale pleaded guilty to that charge, the complaint states.
∫ Tyshaun Joseph Johnson, 21, of 166 29th St., Wheeling, is charged with malicious assault after police said he struck a fellow partygoer in the face. Roxby set bond at 10,000 cash only, and Johnson’s preliminary hearing will be set within 10 days.
Police say the alleged victim lost consciousness and fell to the ground, suffering a fractured skull, and brain bleeding and swelling. He was treated in intensive care at a hospital, according to the criminal complaint.
Johnson, who had already been taken into custody for an unrelated incident, reportedly told police, “I put him to sleep,” in reference to striking the man at the party. He reportedly told police he does not like to fight, but that he purposely struck the man on the chin to knock him unconscious, the complaint states.
∫ Pamela Lee, 45, of 816 Walters Ave., Wheeling, is charged with strangulation after police went to her home at 3:39 p.m. Friday “for a report of a domestic issue between a grandmother and a granddaughter,” according to a criminal complaint. Roxby set Lee’s bond at $2,500, which she posted.
Lee was reportedly “hostile” toward an officer and told the officer to leave, the complaint states. She allegedly refused to tell police where her granddaughter was and repeatedly yelled and used foul language toward police, the complaint states.
Another family member took an officer to the granddaughter, who said Lee beat her because of bad grades after Lee met with an official at her high school, the complaint states. The alleged victim said Lee punched her in the mouth and face, “then grabbed her by the throat and started choking her with both hands,” it states.
The alleged victim reportedly bit Lee’s hand to get her to stop, then ran to a neighbor’s home to call 911.
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