Police log arrests
Police in West Virginia have arrested two men accused in a Greene County home invasion where a Mount Morris woman was robbed at gunpoint. According to state police at Waynesburg, Curtis Allen Gum, 31, of Blacksville, W.Va., and Charles Strosnider, 33, of Wana, W.Va., were arrested Wednesday in Monongalia County in connection with the Feb. 22 home invasion robbery of Martha Jean Tasker, 56, of Mount Morris.
Both men were charged with robbery, burglary, simple assault, terroristic threats, theft by unlawful taking and four counts of criminal conspiracy.
Tasker told state police someone knocked at her front door around 8:15 p.m., and when she unlocked the door, two men forced themselves inside, one brandishing a sawed-off shotgun and the other carrying a knife, and demanded medication from her.
The men allegedly got away with a quantity of oxycontin and vicodin, and approximately $600 in cash from Tasker’s purse.
According to police, the men allegedly traded the pills for crack cocaine and used some of the money to bribe people into keeping quiet about the robbery.
Both men await extradition to Pennsylvania for arraignment on the charges, which were filed at the office of Magisterial District Judge Lou Dayich.
Also charged in the incident are Jamie Renee Wolfe, 34, of Bruceton Mills, W.Va., and Richard Tennant.
Charges against those two were filed at the office of Magisterial District Judge Lee Watson.