PUTNAM COUNTY, WV (LOOTPRESS)— A domestic disturbance call on August 10, 2025, led to the arrest of two people after deputies found both parties injured and giving conflicting accounts of a violent altercation.
Deputies were dispatched to a home on Charleston Road after a woman reported her boyfriend had cut her and stolen her car. The caller, later identified as Jonah Cochran, initially gave inconsistent information to dispatchers, including a false name for the suspect, before eventually allowing deputies to meet her at the residence.
Cochran was visibly shaking when officers arrived and had a two-inch laceration on her forearm along with cuts on her hand. She later identified her boyfriend as Paul Cumberledge, who was found hiding in the dining room.
Cochran told deputies that Cumberledge prevented her from leaving, withheld her keys, and struck her with a meth pipe, causing her injury. Cumberledge claimed he was trying to stop Cochran from going to a drug dealer’s house and alleged she attacked him first, kicking him and causing cuts to his hands when the meth pipe broke.
Due to conflicting statements and visible injuries on both individuals, deputies charged Cochran and Cumberledge with first-offense domestic battery.
