Author: Don Fletcher

By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer Atmore City Council members approved during their Monday (August 9) meeting the first step in the eventual purchase of a new piece of equipment for the streets and sanitation department. The council also approved the designation of nearly two dozen vehicles as surplus.But it was comments made after the brief meeting that raised the most eyebrows.After the meeting was formally adjourned, Mayor Jim Staff asked…

Shack By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer State corrections officers arrested a Calhoun County man last Friday, July 29, for apparently trying to smuggle marijuana and other controlled substances into Fountain Correctional Facility. The man apparently was a state inmate until recently and reportedly returned to the prison to visit a former barracks-mate.Joseph Lorenzo Shack, 44, of Anniston was arrested by Alabama Department of Corrections officers or investigators. According to Escambia…

Pellegrini By DON FLETCHERNews Staff Writer A Monroe County man was arrested July 23 by Poarch Creek Police Department officers, and is charged with stalking two teenage girls and an adult woman and trying to talk the females into his car during an incident that took place in the parking lot of Wind Creek Casino & Hotel.Escambia County Detention Center records show that 31-year-old Raymond Pellegrini II of Repton remained…

Carter Bowman Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks confirmed today (Friday, Aug. 6) that 25-year-old Dewitt Champ Carter of Atmore and Anna Leigh Bowman, 20, of Bay Minette were the suspects arrested Thursday on felony drug possession charges that evolved from police response to a domestic incident at an East Horner Street residence. Carter is charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance (meth and Spice), one count of…

One of the sleekest cars in the recent Bubba Cruz 4 parade in honor of “Bubba” Ardis was stolen, apparently during today’s predawn hours (Thursday, August 5), from a Lottie field, then burned and abandoned beside a rural Escambia County road. Sheriff’s reports on the incident were not immediately available, but Thomas Ardis (brother to Bubba Ardis) said the stolen vehicle – a powder blue 1964 SS Chevrolet Impala —…