Trooper Green had just left Magistrate Court when he saw a blue Jeep Cherokee, with the vanity license plate WOOF, driving erratically, according to the complaint.

Green wrote that he followed the vehicle on Quarrier Street and watched as it nearly hit another vehicle and ran a stoplight.

The trooper pulled the Jeep over and asked Wolfe for his basic information. He wrote that Wolfe could not provide it, after asking the officer to repeat the information several times.

"The accused repeatedly became belligerent, cursing and making inappropriate comments toward this officer," Green wrote in the complaint.

After the arrest, Wolfe was taken to State Police headquarters, Bailey said previously.

There he was beaten so much that cranial fluid leaked from his nose, Bailey said.

Wolfe was in Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital for six days because of the injuries he suffered and doctors' concerns that surgery might be necessary, Bailey said. Wolfe had multiple facial fractures, including fractures to his eye socket, he said.

An internal investigation into Wolfe's allegations are ongoing, State Police Lt. G.A. Ingold of the professional standards section said July 27.

Wolfe has since sued the state Department of Motor Vehicles for revoking his license because of the incident, claiming that he was denied an administrative hearing on the revocation.

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Wolfe is still on sick leave because of the beating, his lawyer Benjamin Bailey said.

"He is trying to do some work out of his home," Bailey said.

The deputies were at State Police headquarters to pick up a man arrested during a domestic disturbance call, said Lt. Sean Crosier of the sheriff's department.

"We can tell from our interview that they saw no confrontation, no problems," Crosier, who declined to release the deputies' names, said. "They don't know Roger Wolfe and therefore don't know if he was one of the prisoners they saw."

Crosier says the deputies were there shortly after midnight on June 17. One was there about 15 minutes and the other was there about 30 minutes to process the arrested man, he said.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, Wolfe was arrested shortly after midnight on June 17 by State Police Trooper Paul A. Green.

The sheriff's deputies responded to a disturbance call near Strawberry Road earlier that night, Crosier said. The two deputies arrested a man but needed to take his wife and five children back to their home, he said.

"The trooper offered, thank goodness, to transport the arrested subject. It was a big help for our guys," Crosier said. "She agreed to transport him to her office while the wife and kids were transported to their home."

Wolfe, the senior labor and employment lawyer with the Jackson Kelly firm, was charged with driving under the influence, obstructing an officer, making an improper lane change and running a traffic signal, according to the criminal complaint.

Trooper Green had just left Magistrate Court when he saw a blue Jeep Cherokee, with the vanity license plate WOOF, driving erratically, according to the complaint.

Green wrote that he followed the vehicle on Quarrier Street and watched as it nearly hit another vehicle and ran a stoplight.

The trooper pulled the Jeep over and asked Wolfe for his basic information. He wrote that Wolfe could not provide it, after asking the officer to repeat the information several times.

"The accused repeatedly became belligerent, cursing and making inappropriate comments toward this officer," Green wrote in the complaint.

After the arrest, Wolfe was taken to State Police headquarters, Bailey said previously.

There he was beaten so much that cranial fluid leaked from his nose, Bailey said.

Wolfe was in Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital for six days because of the injuries he suffered and doctors' concerns that surgery might be necessary, Bailey said. Wolfe had multiple facial fractures, including fractures to his eye socket, he said.

An internal investigation into Wolfe's allegations are ongoing, State Police Lt. G.A. Ingold of the professional standards section said July 27.

Wolfe has since sued the state Department of Motor Vehicles for revoking his license because of the incident, claiming that he was denied an administrative hearing on the revocation.

To contact staff writer Gary Harki, use e-mail or call 348-5163.