Don Fletcher

Fountain security guard,3 others arrested in smuggling schemes
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…
SCV camp, Canoe community working to replace historic marker
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…
Atmore woman injured in fatal July 4 crash
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore woman was seriously injured July 4 when she became the third vehicle involved in a three-vehicle crash near Pollard that claimed the life of a Missouri man.Alabama State Troopers reports show the fatal collision occurred around 4:17 p.m. on U.S. 31, near Old U.S. 31, approximately six miles south of Brewton.Troopers reported that a 2017 Jeep Liberty, driven by Shirley A. Moore, 60,…
Felony arrests
Tribal police nab Birmingham man on drug trafficking charge By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Steen Poarch Creek police arrested a Birmingham man June 25 on numerous charges, including drug trafficking.No details were available, but the Escambia County Detention Center website shows that 54-year-old Darryl Steen was booked into the facility on two felony and two misdemeanor drug charges, as well as a weapons charge.He remained in the county lockup early…
Gavin execution scheduled for next week
By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Alabama death row inmate Keith Edmund Gavin, sentenced to death in 1999 for the 1998 murder of a Cherokee County delivery courier, is scheduled to die by lethal injection next week at William C. Holman Correctional Facility outside Atmore.Gavin’s execution, which will be the state’s third this year, is scheduled to take place “between midnight Wednesday, July 17, and 6 a.m. Friday, July 19,” according…