Police report

Heart attack apparent

cause of fatal wreck

MAIDSVILLE - A Marion County man apparently had a fatal heartattack while driving, leading to a one-car accident at a MonongaliaCounty construction site.

Roger Lee Starcher, 43, of Farmington, told his co-workers that hewas having chest pains, said Monongalia County Sheriff's DepartmentChief Deputy Al Kisner.

"He started out in a company vehicle on the construction site forthe new Longview power plant," Kisner said. "He was apparently headeddown to the construction site office to have someone take him to thehospital."

Starcher's vehicle went into a ravine, up an embankment, thencrossed Crafts Run Road and hit a tree, Kisner said.

Starcher was taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, wherehe was pronounced dead.

Kisner said the cause of death would not be known until the statemedical examiner has performed an autopsy.

Man charged with

sex abuse of relative

Kanawha County sheriff's deputies arrested a St. Albans man andcharged him with sexually abusing a 12-year-old relative.

Michael Lee Jeffers Sr., 54, of Winfield Road in St. Albans, wascharged Sunday with sexual abuse by a parent or guardian afterallegedly fondling and touching a girl in his home during the nightSaturday and early Sunday morning, according to sheriff's departmentspokesman Lt. Bryan Stover. The victim was treated and released froma local hospital.

Jeffers was being held at the South Central Regional Jail onMonday on $50,000 bond. Anyone with information about this incidentor any similar incidents involving Jeffers is asked to call thesheriff's department criminal investigations section at 357-0169.