Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Charged in ’21 vehicle theft
White By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man was taken into custody May 30, charged in connection with the theft last year of a motor vehicle in Escambia County, Fla.Atmore Police Department Sgt. Darrell McMann confirmed the arrest of Johnny Wayne White, 40, who is accused of getting rid of the stolen vehicle by having it crushed at an Atmore recycling center.White’s involvement in the case was confirmed October…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
2nd suspect arrested in 2020 shooting
Blount By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer After nearly two years on the run, 21-year-old Tyrone Blount Jr. is finally behind bars.Blount is one of two gunmen suspected of pulling up in a van to a location near the intersection of Robinson Street and Maxwell Street around 2:45 p.m. on September 11, 2020. The duo, both of whom were 19 years old when the crime was committed, exited the vehicle and…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Clerical error frees wrong Fountain inmate
Gable By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) officials confirmed late last week that reports of 31-year-old Fountain Correctional Facility inmate Corey Daniel Gable’s escape from the facility were issued after Fountain officials discovered a clerical error that caused them to release the wrong inmate.“On May 31, 2022, Corey Daniel Gable, a 31-year-old inmate serving a 20-year-sentence for (first-degree) assault out of Mobile County at Fountain Correctional…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Separate incidents lead to arrest of men for felony domestic violence
Bowens Martin By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Two men, including an Atmore man who was arrested for at least the fourth time on similar charges, found themselves under felony arrest recently after city police responded to separate domestic incidents.The first incident took place May 24, and the offender was well known to local authorities.Atmore Police Department reports show that officers were sent to a local residence, where the woman living…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Atmore man, 2 others from area denied parole
Finklea Buckley Johnson By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer An Atmore man who served two years in prison for shooting and robbing a man during a poker game in 2015, will apparently spend five more years behind bars after he and two other local men were denied parole during recent hearings by the Alabama Board of Pardons & Paroles.Eurecka Finklea, now 32, was convicted in 2019 of first-degree assault and sentenced…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago