Trial Underway For Former UBB Security Chief

{West Virginia}...Trial began Monday in Beckley for Hughie Elbert Stover, former security chief at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine. Stover is accused of ordering the destruction of thousands of pages of security documents at the mine, lying to investigators and telling guards to call out on the radio when inspectors entered the mine. Prosecutors say long after the UBB explosion, Stover ordered all documents, except ones dealing with property or equipment transfers be destroyed in the dumpster next to his office. The documents in question were found by the federal officials in the dumpster before they were destroyed. Stover's attorneys told the jury Stover didn't give the security guard any specific direction on getting rid of the documents, but he just pointed out not to destroy any documents that dealt with property or equipment transfers at the mine.