W.Va. plans to extradite suspect from Champion

Grimm is suspected of
shooting a man in the back with a shotgun.

By TIM YOVICH

VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF

WARREN — Extradition proceeding have begun to return a Champion man to West Virginia where he is wanted in two armed robberies and is a suspect in killing one man and wounding another.

“We’re just glad to get him off the streets,” Chief Marshall Goff of the Clarksburg (W.Va.) Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

Roger Dale Grimm, 41, who gave a Mahoning Avenue address, was captured in Champion at Mahoning and state Route 82 on Thursday afternoon.

Chief Deputy Albert Marano of the Harrison County (W.Va.) Sheriff’s Office said Friday the extradition paperwork is being drawn up by the Harrison County (W.Va.) Prosecutor’s Office.

Grimm can either waive extradition or request a hearing to determine if he is the person wanted there.

He is charged with robbing convenience stores in Clarksburg and nearby Salem and wounding a man Thursday within a span of about three hours, Goff said.

The wounded man’s name is not being released.

“He’s in pretty bad shape right now — unable to talk,” the chief said.

Goff explained that Grimm got into an argument with another man. The other man was shot in the back with a shotgun as he tried to run away.

Grimm also is a suspect in the Jan. 4 shooting death of Thomas Nutter at Nutter’s Lost Creek home. Lost Creek is near Clarksburg. Goff said Nutter, an acquaintance of Grimm’s, was killed with a shotgun.

Police said Goff and a woman had been staying at Nutter’s home before he was killed.

Marano said the woman has been questioned in the slaying but has not been charged.

Goff said Grimm has relatives and a former wife in the Clarksburg area and is known to police because of his run-ins with authorities. The woman questioned is not Grimm’s ex-wife.

Grimm was once charged there with malicious wounding but was acquitted, Goff explained.

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