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Charges Against Pocahontas Sheriffs Deputy Benjamin M. Wilfong Dismissed
Pocahontas Prosecuting Attorney Donna M Price says Magistrate Judge Brenda Smith agreed to dismiss the felony charges against Deputy Wilfong, when the state Prosecuting Attorneys Institute failed to appoint a special prosecutor in the case. WVMR

I'll check with the Prosecuting Attorney's Institute.

78% Believe the dismissal was intentional!

Charges dropped against former deputy
Pamela Pritt
Editor

Greenbrier County magistrate Brenda Smith dropped counterfeiting and obtaining goods under false pretenses charges against a former Pocahontas County deputy Tuesday morning.

Smith granted a defense motion to dismiss the charges against Ben Wilfong, who is suing the Pocahontas County Commission and the former sheriff.

The Pocahontas County Prosecuting Attorney’s office was recused from the case on June 17.

Prosecuting Attorney Donna Price said Tuesday afternoon that because of that, Smith ordered the assistant prosecuting attorney out of the courtroom before he could explain the state’s position.

Assistant prosecutor J. L. Clifton said he appeared in magistrate court only to diseminate information, not to try to represent the state.

Price said she had spoken with the director of the prosecuting attorney’s institute on June 22 and had relinquished further prosecution of the case.

However, she said, the director of the institute had a medical emergency and did not appoint a special prosecutor in a timely fashion.

“It is by no stretch of the imagination over,” Price said.

Price said that the State Police investigator who originally filed the charges would return to Pocahontas County to file identical charges and the case would be presented to the Pocahontas County Grand Jury in August or a subsequent grand jury.

The new special prosecutor should be appointed soon, she said.

Wilfong has been suspended from his duties without pay. His status has not changed, according to Sheriff David Jonese.

80% believe that Donna is responsible.

Just wondering!

NO. You have to reputable and have good standing everywhere and willing to help your fellow Mason when in need any where in the U.S. I don't think Wilfong is any of this. The Mason have certian whys of speaking, handshake etc. So, I don't hardly thinks he qualiflies as a MASON. And also he would where a ring that only the masons would know.