Author: Don Fletcher

Don Fletcher

Seven arrested
Drug, warrant charges after APD traffic stops By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer On Friday, June 7, officers with Atmore Police Department, Alabama Drug Enforcement Task Force and Alabama Department of Corrections K-9 Division pulled over several motorists for various traffic violations, leading to the arrests of seven people, six on drug or drug-related charges and one who was the subject of an outstanding warrant. Three Atmore men were taken…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Resurfacing starts
Short, Howard done; council wants to add Swift Mill to mix By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Motorists in Atmore came to the full realization this week that a $600,000-plus, eight-street resurfacing project — which could become a nine-street project — is now under way. Four city council members voted during their June 10 session, for which Mayor Jim Staff and District 5 rep Chris Harrison were absent, to ask…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
$1 million bond
Atmore man charged with trafficking in pot By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A 65-year-old resident of Atmore’s Point Escambia senior housing complex remained in the county jail this week, held under a $1 million bond and facing mandatory prison time, after his arrest last week on marijuana trafficking charges. State narcotics agents, backed by city police officers and county sheriff’s deputies, executed a search warrant June 3 on the…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Price executed nearly 28 years after pastor’s murder
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The execution of death row inmate Christopher Lee Price, convicted in 1993 of the 1991 murder of a Fayette County preacher, was finally carried out at 8:12 p.m. last Thursday, May 30, at Holman Correctional Facility. The execution went ahead after the U.S. Supreme Court, hearing Price’s appeal for the second time, narrowly rejected (by a 5-4 margin) a request for a stay filed…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Too dry to try!
Chief cautions against outdoor burning By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Fire Chief Ron Peebles doesn’t know just when it’s coming. But the veteran firefighter is sure that it is coming. While no official drought declaration or burn ban has been issued or implemented by state fire officials, Peebles has seen his share of the grass and field fires that get out of hand each year or those that…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago