Urine Trouble Now: Clarksburg Man Wanted After Skipping Court-Ordered Sample

Published June 3, 2025 • Urine the News

We've all had stage fright before—but this takes it to another level.

Rodney Wayne Swiger II, a 32-year-old from Clarksburg, West Virginia, is now wanted by the court after failing to produce a urine sample and then vanishing from the courthouse entirely. Judge Joseph F. Shaffer Jr. had ordered Swiger to provide the sample by 4:30 p.m. on May 30, just hours after Swiger pleaded guilty to causing over $8,000 in damage at the local Senior Citizens Center.

The court even gave him an ultimatum: either provide the sample or go to a hospital for a catheter. Unfortunately, Swiger failed to do either. He reportedly left the courthouse without permission sometime between 4:25 and 4:45 p.m., just minutes before the deadline, prompting the judge to issue a bench warrant for contempt of court.

Swiger’s original charge stemmed from a drunken episode—he blamed “fire water” for a late-night rampage that involved bending a steel door, punching and kicking it, and smashing the light fixture above it. Security footage reportedly captured the destruction at 11:17 p.m. on May 10, 2024.

While the damage to the senior center was enough to warrant a guilty plea, it's Swiger’s vanishing act that’s drawing headlines now. Failing to produce a urine sample might not usually make the news, but when it results in a full-blown bench warrant, you’ve officially entered the “Urine the News” hall of fame.

For the full story, you can read the original article via WV News.