West Virginia
West Virginia man charged with stealing trees from federal land
Officers say three males have been indicted after federal prosecutors accused them of stealing walnut timber from federally protected land.
A information launch from the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Western District of Virginia says William Riley Stump of Narrows, Virginia, and Derrick Anthony Thompson of Princeton, West Virginia, have been arraigned this week in U.S. District Court docket in Roanoke.
In line with court docket paperwork, Stump, Thompson and one other indicted co-defendant conspired to chop and take away black walnut timber positioned within the Bluestone Mission in Giles County, Virginia, and take them to Lindside, West Virginia, to promote.
A 3rd one that was indicted stays at giant.