Robey

ELKINS — A Randolph County man has taken a plea deal that lessens his felony charge to a misdemeanor after allegedly injuring a woman by hitting her in the head with a stick.

Albert Darnell Robey, 44, of Elkins, who had been charged with malicious or unlawful assault, took a plea deal in Randolph County Magistrate Court on Monday that lessens his charge to a misdemeanor battery, dropping the felony charge. He now faces 120 days in jail and a fine of $100. 

Robey was represented by attorney Alex Harclerode from Clarksburg. The plea deal was made just before Robey’s scheduled preliminary hearing Monday afternoon. Magistrate Mike Dryer presided over the case.

According to the criminal complaint that was prepared by Patrolman J.H. White of the Elkins Police Department, on Sept. 16 at around 2:22 p.m., officers received a “walk up” complaint at the Elkins City Police Department from a woman who claimed Robey “assaulted me with a stick” early that morning at about 1 a.m. The woman said the alleged assault occurred “in a wooded area just off of North Randolph Avenue in Elkins.”

The alleged victim said she and Robey had gotten into an argument and Robey called her “a bunch of names” and “proceeded to grab her by her hair and get in her face and hit her with a stick, causing the wound on her head, then slapped her and busted her lip open,” the complaint states.

According to the complaint, the alleged victim claimed the incident left her with a “head gashed open” and a “busted lip.” Officers reportedly saw that she did have “a sizable wound above her left eye with dried blood around the wound, as well as on her forehead, brow and eyelid.” She also had multiple bruises on her face and a cut inside her bottom lip.