On the 20th of January, 2026, in the Magistrate Court of Calhoun County, Sr. Trooper J.D. Richards filed the following complaint against Travis Boggs.
The complaint stated that on Sunday, November 23rd, 2025, at approximately 7:30 a.m. Calhoun County Dispatch notified Senior Trooper J.D. Richards of a single vehicle wreck with three (3) occupants at the location of 25344 South Calhoun Highway, Chloe, WV.
On the same date, at approximately 8:05 a.m. Trooper Richards arrived on scene. The three occupants of the vehicle had been transported via ambulance to CAMC General Hospital in Kanawha County. The Trooper observed the Pontiac sedan-style vehicle in the ditch off the right side of the roadway on its side. When speaking with fire personnel on
scene he was advised that the driver had advised that he had fallen asleep at the wheel.
Trooper Richards conducted a search on the vehicle in an effort to ascertain information about passengers and insurance etc. The occupants were identified from the
documents in the vehicle as Travis Sheldon Boggs (Driver), Angela Kathleen Stutler (passenger), and a 4 Week old
juvenile. The Trooper also observed much blood and tissue in the interior of the vehicle where Angela Stutler had to be extricated from the vehicle, having severe injuries to her head
according to EMS.
CCTV footage was available from nearby the address of 2553 S . Calhoun Hwy that caught the entirety of the crash on recording. Trooper Richards observed the vehicle exit the right side of the roadway with no attempt to correct back onto the roadway. The vehicle hit a large pile of rocks off of the roadway and flipped on its side. Travis Boggs was viewed to have emerged from the driver’s seat of the vehicle and be unsteady on his feet.
On the same date, at approximately 11 p.m. Trooper Richards arrived at CAMC General in Charleston, WV where Travis Boggs and Angela Stutler had been seen. He was escorted by a Nurse who led him to the Trauma ICU. Trooper Richards approached Mr. Boggs that was sitting with Angela Stutler who was still being monitored due to her injuries, having to tap Mr. Boggs several times on the shoulder in an attempt to wake him. Once awake the Trooper began to inquire about the accident. Mr. Boggs advised Trooper Richards at first that he was traveling back from CAMC Women and Children’s Hospital from the Juvenile have been seen. The Trooper advised Mr. Boggs that his vehicle was headed south towards 1-79 on South Calhoun Hwy at the time of the crash which would imply he was coming from a previous destination that was not CAMC Women’s and Children’s hospital. Trooper Richards then inquired if there would be anything in his blood that would cause concern taken by CAMC. Mr. Boggs advised that Delta-8 THC would be present in his blood and “allergy medicine” that he obtained from a gas station.
On November 24th, 2025, Trooper Richards drafted a search warrant for any intravenous fluid taken from Travis Sheldon
Boggs on November 23rd, 2025 after he was seen for the crash in Calhoun County. The Search warrant was signed
by a Kanawha County Magistrate and executed on the same date by SGT. K.M. Williams.
On November 25th, 2025, Five (5) tubes of Intravenous fluid were submitted to the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory Toxicology for Blood Analysis.
On January 16th, 2026, this Trooper obtained the results from the State Lab. Mr. Boggs’ blood had a presence of 58.64 ng/ml, + or – 5.86 ng/ml of Amphetamine, and 232.7 ng/ml, + or – 18.61 ng/ml of Methamphetamine.
A Felony arrest warrant was requested and given against Travis Sheldon Boggs for DUI causing Serious Bodily
Injury for the severe bodily injuries received by Angela K . Stutler that placed her in the Trauma ICU at CAMC General.
Also requested and given was a warrant for a Felony charge of Child Neglect causing risk of Severe Bodily Injury for the 4-week-old that was present in the vehicle at the time of the crash.
