Extradition

charlestown@herald-mail.com MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Bunker Hill, W.Va., man charged in the shooting death of his second cousin Friday in southern Berkeley County agreed Monday not to fight his return to West Virginia, prosecutors said. John W. Jenkins Jr., who has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Steven E. Cole, agreed not to fight extradition Monday morning in General District Court in Winchester, Va., Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney Pamela Games-Neely said.

A Brooklyn, N.Y., man who fought extradition from Great Britain for more than five years on a 2006 murder charge in Washington County will have another two months to prepare for trial. Circuit Court Judge M. Kenneth Long Jr. on Thursday granted a motion from Joshua Edwards to delay his trial, which was scheduled for three days beginning Dec. 19. Long rescheduled the trial for four days beginning Feb. 19, 2013. Defense attorney Bernard W. Semler II, who replaced Edwards' previous attorney in September, told Long that he has more than 2,000 pages of discovery materials to review.

scottb@herald-mail.com A Frederick, Md., man wanted by the Hagerstown Police Department in connection with a fatal shooting last December on Jonathan Street has agreed to be extradited from New York, police said Saturday. "We are very pleased that the process is moving quickly," Hagerstown City Police Lt. Rick Johnson said. Police representatives plan to travel to New York on Wednesday to pick up Karim Ali Ward, 27, after hearing Ward signed a waiver of extradition Friday, police said.

A man accused of murder in Hagerstown in 2006 has asked a European human-rights court to prevent his extradition from the United Kingdom to the United States. Joshua Edwards, 21, has been in custody in the United Kingdom since January 2007, fighting extradition to Maryland, according to a European Court of Human Rights statement of charges. Authorities in Washington County have accused Edwards of fatally shooting Jackson Agustin Rodriguez in a Washington Gardens apartment.

A mistrial has been declared in Washington County Circuit Court in the case of a New York man charged in a 2006 murder in Hagerstown, because his defense attorney had represented a key state witness in a custody case. Joshua Edwards, 25, spent more than five years fighting extradition from England before he was returned to Hagerstown last year to face first-degree murder in the July 23, 2006, killing of Jackson A. Rodriguez in an apartment in the Washington Gardens complex. Edwards, formerly of Brooklyn, N.Y., also was charged in the same incident with the attempted murder of Tony Perry, who survived a gunshot wound to the head.

A Virginia man accused of murder in Berkeley County, W.Va., appeared in Washington County District Court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing on charges of distributing heroin and cocaine. Jonathan Frederick Bennett, 39, of Charlottesville, Va., is charged with two counts each of distribution of narcotics and possession with intent to distribute narcotics and four counts each of possession of narcotics and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to court records. Ashley Nicole Carpegna, 26, of Martinsburg, W.Va., who is charged as an accessory after the fact in the same  murder, was also scheduled for a preliminary hearing on  drug charges, but District Court Judge Dana Moylan Wright granted a 30-day continuance because Carpegna is in jail in West Virginia.

Police log for Jan 15 Inmate awaiting extradition to Pa. MONT ALTO, Pa. - A Franklin County Prison inmate is awaiting extradition to Pennsylvania from a Hagerstown jail after he fled his work release job, stole a car and was ultimately picked up by Maryland State Police for speeding Friday, Pennsylvania State Police said. Nathan Matthew Flohr, 26, of Chambersburg, was charged with escape, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property. He is serving an eight- to 23-month sentence for robbery, police said.

 A man who was shot by a Martinsburg police officer and shocked with a stun gun multiple times faces extradition from Virginia, where he was still being treated Tuesday, authorities said. Martinsburg police Detective S.F. Doyle said Tuesday he could not comment on Douglas Charles Butler's medical condition, but said the department would pursue his extradition from Virginia to be prosecuted on a charge of attempted malicious wounding. Butler was flown to Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., after he was shot in the chest by an officer and shocked with a Taser, which uses electrical current to disrupt an individual's voluntary muscle control.

Man charged with W.Va. shooting out on bond By BOB PARTLOW / Staff Writer, Martinsburg MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Martinsburg man charged in the shooting death last week of Steven Ray Post of Inwood was released on $100,000 bond late Monday by Circuit Judge David Sanders. Terry Lee Edwards, Jr. was charged last week with second-degree murder after Post was shot to death at Edwards' home at 425 E. Race St. Magistrate Sandra Miller had forgotten to set bond last week, said Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney Pamela Games-Neely.

shappell@herald-mail.com A man charged in connection with a Noland Village shooting last summer was in custody in Washington County after his extradition from New York on Wednesday. Hagerstown City Police said Tariq D. Small, also known as Richard D. Small and "R-Dot," was in the Washington County Detention Center on charges stemming from a June 19 altercation in Court 4 of the Noland Village housing development. Small, 18, whose last known local address was 124 S. Prospect St., was being held Thursday night on $152,500 bond on three sets of charges, a detention center spokesman said.