Author: Don Fletcher

C Murphy T Murphy Smith By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Two Atmore brothers were arrested July 12 on various drug possession and distribution charges after city police narcotics investigators executed a search warrant at a Wilkerson Street residence.The raid was conducted around 5:05 p.m. and yielded Tramadol pills, Ecstasy pills, a green leafy substance that field-tested positive for marijuana and two grinders. One grinder had marijuana residue in it; the…

Rolin By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A local man was arrested on felony drug charges after an Atmore Police Department patrol officer pulled him over for driving with another car’s tag on his vehicle.Sgt. Darrell McMann said the incident and arrest occurred July 12, around 8:10 p.m., when the officer ran the tag of a vehicle with unspecified “faulty equipment.” A computer check revealed that the tag belonged on another…

Local man breaks into home, tries to chase evil spirits out Woods By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man who told police he broke into a local residence in an attempt to cleanse the residence of demons, was arrested July 5 on burglary charges.Atmore Police Department Sgt. Darrell McMann said an APD patrol officer spotted a man — later identified as Eddie Thomas Woods, 41 — “staggering as he…

McGhee By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A July 1 traffic stop by Atmore Police Department drug agents led to felony and misdemeanor drug charges, including trafficking in methamphetamine, against a 53-year-old Atmore man.Sgt. Darrell McMann reported that the traffic stop and arrest occurred around 2:55 p.m. on Jack Springs Road. APD Drug Task Force investigators attempted to obtain consent to search the vehicle but were denied, so a K-9 officer…

Durgan By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Mobile man was arrested on several charges after his ex-girlfriend reported to Atmore police that the man had stolen her vehicle.An officer was sent to the woman’s Martin Luther King Drive residence, where the occupant told police that her vehicle had been stolen and she believed her ex-boyfriend was responsible.An APD investigator contacted the victim again the next day, and she reported that…