July bank robber, August shootout suspects among 60 indictments by Harrison County grand jury

CLARKSBURG, W. Va. — A grand jury in Harrison County returned 60 indictments against after a two-day session which wrapped up Tuesday.

Among the more notable cases included:

Donald Jordan

Donald Richardson Jordan, 25, and Willie Dukes, Jr., 47, who are charged with four counts of Wanton Endangerment Involving a Firearm, one count of Brandishing a Deadly Weapon, one count of Assault During the Commission of a Felony, one count of Malicious Assault and two counts of Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance.

Back in August, after an argument between the family members near a residence in Clarksburg, Jordan opened fire on Dukes, who retaliated. Dukes and his daughter were taken to the hospital. Jordan fled the scene on foot but was later found by authorities, along with $4000 separated into $1000 stacks, crack cocaine, Xanax and an unidentified pill.

Dukes was arrested after being released from the hospital due to a prior conviction, which prohibits him from possessing and firing the .357 magnum as witness reports indicate he did.

William Arney Amos, 35, of Shinnston, is charged with one count of robbery and one count of making threats of terroristic acts,

William Amos

conveying false information concerning terrorist acts and committing terrorist hoaxes.

He is alleged to have robbed Huntington Bank’s White Oaks branch in July when he allegedly came in holding a gun, demanded money and took off with an undisclosed amount of cash in a vehicle..

Police set up a road block and were checking vehicles in the area after the heist but the suspect was not found until Amos was arrested after allegedly holding up the Marion Square branch of WesBanco in Fairmont later the same month with a knife, telling the bank tellers there was a bomb outside the facility and then making off with an undetermined amount of money.

Corporal John McDougal of the Fairmont Detachment of the West Virginia State Police spotted the suspect’s vehicle traveling through Monongah on Route 19 and pulled the vehicle over. After collaboration with the Bridgeport Police Department, it was determined Amos was the suspect in both cases.

Read the full list of indictments here.





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