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SWMBO made trip to my Sis's in Wheeling last night. Reported LEO were thick, "like Charlotte during a race" On I-79/I-70 from Morgantown to Wheeling. Today, coming back via I-70/I-77 through Ohio she reported the same all the way to Ripley. OHP even had a road check on I-77 15 or 20 miles West of Wheeling. Heard a report of a couple escapee around Stubenville but this sounds like a MASSIVE manhunt. Any info??

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I live in the area and really didn't see anything big between Waynesburg and Motown - what time of day? I've seen alot of johns up in the area waiting to give tickets, esp. around the construction lately.

Haven't heard anything on the news, tho. Should I get out my tinfoil hat?
 
Ohio

Ohio has been running heavy drug interdiction on all Interstates for around 6 months now.They stop cars for any reason they can use and then let a dog walk around it.I live near I 77 and it happens at least once a month.
 
Wheeling, W.V.

Holy smokes....

I grew up there and hearing y'all talk about it is makin me homesick.

How much snow did you get?

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Couple captured

Convict, dog trainer captured after escape
Prison volunteer allegedly fled with inmate in a dog crate in her van

Updated: 12:06 a.m. ET Feb. 25, 2006
LANSING, Kan. - A prison volunteer and a convicted murderer were caught Friday night in Tennessee, Kansas prison officials said.

Toby Young, who ran the Safe Harbor Prison Dog program at Lansing Correctional Facility, and John Manard were captured around 8:40 p.m. by local, state and federal law enforcement authorities on Interstate 75 between Chattanooga and Knoxville after a brief vehicle chase.

Minor injuries were reported during the capture. Toby Young was taken to a local hospital as a precautionary measure.
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If it was last night, they were probably still looking for these two.
 
Ohio, the heart of it all

Ohio is a great distribution point for a lot of things. It is the illegal ones that make it a little more exciting to live here than some more out of the way places.

Illegal guns and drugs make their way through Ohio enroute to the East Coast.

Ohio was also a major distribution point during Prohibition. (From which we did not learn our lesson about making things illegal and giving them a false high market value)

As our Columbus Chamber of Commerce proudly proclaims.

You are within a days driving distance of 2/3rds of the population of the USA.

Oh well, time to buy more (legal) guns and ammo.

dzimmerm
 
When I use to live in SE OH, I knew an acquaintance living in Cambridge (just north of 70 going up 77). He had relayed to me one time that that part of OH was pretty popular for drug running due the easy access to 70 and 77.

One time on my way up to NE OH after work (2000 or 2001, IIRC), I had noticed a high number of tickets being handed out on 77 and decided to count how many there would be on the way up. Counted 14 between Marietta and Route 250 and 2 from there to NE OH. Mix between OHP and county LE. Only 1 or 2 local. It was the latter half of the month but no holidays anytime soon. Usually, though, it was never that heavy, about 1 or 2 at the most on that route.
 
Rock Steady,

A couple of weeks back i made a run down 79, 19, 77 to VA. I saw alot of Sheriff Deputies patroling WV interstates and not one WV Trooper. Is this something new. I used to travel that corridor 3 to 4 times a years and didn't see that before. Did WV kick the troopers off the interstates or something? :)
 
No, but it seems you'll find more county mounties out and doing thier thing to patrol the area - I bleeve they're able to generate more cash flow that way. Like Summersville in its heyday - I've talked to alot of people getting in speed traps lately.

And, unfortunately, I see alot more violence and drugs around here - the state troopers are all caught up dealing with the bigger dregs.
 
Highway 19 through Fayetteville = biggest, most blatant, obnoxious "cop who has to pay his salary" speed trap in the state.
 
It's I-70

I am 5 miles from Wheeling in Ohio and the thing you read about is I-70 being the pipeline for drugs,Illegals, whatever, for points west. Ohio Highway Patrol and the WV State Police are on the lookout...... And they catch a bunch. Course, a heck of alot more get through. Real simple.
 
Yeah, Summersville speed trap is legendary!

My complaint on 19 is WV spending all that money to upgrade it to 4 lanes all the way from 77 to 79 but then allowing Summersville, Fayetteville and Oak Hill to hang twice as many stop lights on it. What a bummer!
 
Tack

Just jumping in here to hear the news from the area where I grew up. I really miss it there. Lived in the same house my whole childhood just north of Steubenville. But, no job in the mill, so I left.
I am going to retire in about seven years and always thought I would go back there. But, with all the bleeding heart lefties in Ohio passing gun laws as fast as they can, I think I am going to reconsider. West (by God) Virginia is still an option.
 
Only problem I have with calling Summersville a speed trap is the three friends I have had involved in crashes at Summersville intersections due to Corridor L traffic going too fast to stop. One of them was when the thing had just opened and he was being transported to Charleston in an ambulance running lights.
 
When I use to live in SE OH, I knew an acquaintance living in Cambridge (just north of 70 going up 77). He had relayed to me one time that that part of OH was pretty popular for drug running due the easy access to 70 and 77.
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I live in New Concord, just west of Cambridge. I drove to Quaker City (just east of Cambridge) today, and saw no fewer than three different vehicles pulled over. I thought it was just a coincidence. BTW Cambridge is quite the little drug town, I deliver pizza in a nightly, pray for (unarmed) me.
 
I grew up in Steubenville OH , my brother has been stopped several times in one month so far . Looks like the drug runners are starting to us Route 22 alot now he says .
 
WvaBill said:
Only problem I have with calling Summersville a speed trap is the three friends I have had involved in crashes at Summersville intersections due to Corridor L traffic going too fast to stop.
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Yeah, I can understand that point of view. I used to work at a radio station there in Summersville and one of my fellow DJ's was killed when his car was t-boned by a truck blasting through the red light at that intersection right in front of the original Wal-Mart location.

I guess what really bugs me about the whole thing is that back when I was growing up there, and living there for a few years after I got out of the Army, I had WV plates on my car and the police never seemed to bother me. Now that I have NC plates it seems like I get pulled over just for looking like I might have been thinking about speeding on Rt.19. :)


WvaBill said:
I am going to retire in about seven years and always thought I would go back there.
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I'm with ya. For the last 10 years I've gotten on the internet every Sunday morning and checked the want-ads in all the online WV newspapers, hoping to get back to that part of the world myself. Unfortunately, my wife has this crazy idea that paychecks are a good thing, and the economy back home is such an unmitigated disaster that I'll probably be stuck down here in the land of "the hot, the flat, and the ugly" until I retire.
 
No one likes accidents. A far better solution would have been to make 19 a limited access highway and build service roads to give access to the businesses. This way you can maintain traffic flow and still provide the businesses with the traffic they need. I am to the point now of traveling a different way because all those lights just add too much time on to the trip.

Card,

I spent 20 years living in Danville Va and moved back to Pittsburgh about a year ago. Let me tell you, the cost of living here in Pittsburgh is so much more it is astounding. Real Estate tax millage here is 29.41, there it was 7.4 and the assessed values are higher here too.....a bad combination. 'Course, the difference between here and Raliegh probably are as much.
 
In 7 years, I will be able to retire on something like 65% of my three highest years minus most of the overtime I work. I figure on that pension, I should be able to buy half the town I grew up in.

Not to get into my personal finances, but my house payment in Las Vegas is $2600/month. What do you think I could do with that in rural Ohio or WV ?

Here, I couldn't pay my bills on 65% of what I make now minus OT. But, if I move to somewhere with a dead economy, I can get out ASAP.
 
Not to get into my personal finances, but my house payment in Las Vegas is $2600/month. What do you think I could do with that in rural Ohio or WV ?
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My mother , in mid-western WV, just bought the home next door to her which was built by my grandfather. It is a 18 yr old 2300 sq ft brick ranch in like new condition with a full basement and two car garage and it sits on 86.5 acres. She paid $63,500 for it. I buy homes and refurbish them for a living and I regularly pay over $200,000 for unlivable rat holes here in Oregon.
 
When I moved to SE OH a number of years ago, I could not believe how cheap land was.

With $2600/mo, buy land. Acres and acres of land. Set you your own range, hunt and/or sell permission to hunt on your land.
 
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