Day: July 10, 2024

Feds apparently dropped ball after convicted bank robber served 10 years Jeter By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A notification error on the part of federal authorities was apparently responsible for the June 18 arrest of Chad Floyd Jeter, an Atmore man who served 10 years in prison after his 2009 conviction for the robbery of Atmore’s First National Bank & Trust.Escambia County Detention Center records show Jeter, whose arrest was…

Digmon In last week’s article, I talked about deputies seizing my cell phone – a personal phone also used for business. Not sure it’s entirely legal to seize a journalist’s phone since we sometimes deal in confidential information. But that’s another legality (or illegality) to look at another day.So, Deputy Arthur Odom and another deputy seized my phone on Monday, October 23, 2023. Four months later, I obtained a document…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore officials and the official in charge of Waste Pro’s privatized solid waste collection operations within the city said during the Monday, July 8, city council meeting that despite a few bumps along the way, the first day of collection within the city went smoothly.Chris Walker, the city’s economic planner, said he had received several calls during the day, most of them from residents who…

Craig Duckworth Williams Shields By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) officials arrested a former G.K. Fountain Correctional Facility (Fountain) security guard and three Mobile-area residents last week in separate schemes to smuggle contraband into the facility.The first arrest came July 4 when Shaquasia La’Sha Craig, 33, of Evergreen, at the time a security guard at Fountain, was arrested by ADOC Law Enforcement Services Division (LESD) officers…

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Members of the Canoe community and members of William Carney Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans are working to replace the marker that relates the basics of the tiny hamlet’s history.The original marker, erected in 2007 at the intersection of U.S. 31 and Baker Street, was recently torn from its framing when a local man, riding a Utility Terrain Vehicle (side-by-side), clipped it and ripped…