West Virginia

Chandler D. Scaggs

In Custody

Chandler D. Scaggs was taken into federal custody in July 2026 and accused of agreeing to serve as a sniper in...

Hokoleskwa

Released

Hokoleskwa was commonly called Cornstalk and was a prominent Shawnee political and military leader who advocat...

David Eli Baghdadi

Released

David Eli Baghdadi, age 36, was arrested August 21, 2013 after strapping himself to a barrel of slurry outside...

Bill Blizzard

Released

Bill Blizzard was a United Mine Workers of America organizer who led approximately 10,000 armed coal miners up...

John Buksa

Released

John Buksa was arrested on a Wheeling, West Virginia street car for distributing the program of the Workers (C...

Edgar Combs

Released

Edgar Combs was a union miner in the West Virginia mine wars. Edgar Combs was the only man to serve a long sen...

George E. Deatherage

Released

George E. Deatherage was an engineer and far-right organizer who led a revival of the Knights of the White Cam...

Michael “Little Feather” Giron

Released

Little Feather is from the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation and was raised in Santa Barbara, California. He...

Jerry Dale Lowe

Released

Jerry Dale Lowe was a mineworker and union safety committeeman from Logan County, West Virginia. His federal c...

Catherine Ann MacDougal

Released

Catherine Ann MacDougal, known as Squirrel, participated in the Coal River Mountain tree sit and a coal-barge...

William V. McCoy

Released

William V. McCoy was a "Virginia mountaineer" from Big Stone Gap, Virginia. William V. McCoy was convicted of...

Sam Opeck

Sam Opeck was a coal miner jailed with Joseph (Osip) Orloff after a July 25, 1932 confrontation during the New...

Osip Orloff

Released

Osip Orloff, also recorded as Joseph or Joe Orloff, was a coal miner jailed after a July 25, 1932 confrontatio...

Jacqueline Quimby

Released

Jacqueline Quimby is an environmental activist affiliated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice, organ...

Dustin Steele

Released

Dustin Steele is a West Virginia activist who joined the 2012 Hobet mine protest against mountaintop-removal c...

Carlos Steward

Released

Carlos Steward is an anti-war activist and a tax resister. To not fund American wars, Steward practiced a mix...

Harold H. Thompson

Released

Harold H. Thompson was a Vietnam War veteran, anarchist and anti-war activist with Vietnam Veterans Against th...

Dorian Williams

Released

Dorian Williams is an environmental activist who participated in the RAMPS Hobet mine action while studying at...

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Joann Myers-Allen

Joann Myers-Allen was an anti-nuclear resister at Offutt Air Force Base. The April 16, 1985 report says Myers-...

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Allanawissica

Released

Allanawissica was also known as Elinipsico and was the son of the Shawnee leader Cornstalk. He came to Fort Ra...

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Kovalski (Weirton steel organizer, 1936)

Kovalski, identified only by surname as a steel organizer, was arrested in Weirton by a Holiday’s Cove police...

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Lawrence Allen

Released

Lawrence Allen was a West Virginia coal striker imprisoned at the Moundsville penitentiary on a charge of dyna...

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Teddy Arunsky

Released

Teddy Arunsky was one of the union miners imprisoned at the West Virginia penitentiary in Moundsville after th...

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Bruce Andrew Baechler

Released

Bruce Andrew Baechler was a Quaker draft resister who refused registration after the Vietnam peace accords. He...