Don Fletcher, Author at Atmore News

Don Fletcher

Fountain officer arrested for trafficking in meth

News Staff Report Alabama Department of Corrections agents arrested a Fountain Correctional Facility correctional officer last week after a joint law enforcement investigation into drug trafficking. ADOC officials reported that 50-year-old Wiggins Washington, a 12-year veteran correctional officer who has been assigned to Fountain for the last several years, was arrested at a Bay Minette business on April 22. Washington, who has been an Alabama correctional officer since October 2007,…

Passenger injured in 2-vehicle crash

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A 22-year-old Baldwin County woman was injured last Wednesday, April 17, when the vehicle in which she was a passenger slammed into the rear of another vehicle on Alabama 21. According to Alabama State Trooper reports, the collision occurred around 7:40 a.m. on the state highway, about 11 miles north of Atmore’s city limits. Reports show that a 2014 Ford driven by Richard Daniels…

Contraband sweep at Holman

ECSO part of 300-member task force in raid By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Alabama Department of Corrections agents and officers, backed by resources from numerous state, city and county agencies, conducted a joint law enforcement operation in an effort to find and remove contraband from the William C. Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore. More than 300 law enforcement officers from DOC and 10 supporting agencies moved into the prison…

2 arrested

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer A 19-year-old Atmore man, already reportedly the subject of a robbery warrant, now also faces a felony marijuana possession charge after police recognized him when he drove by the scene of an unrelated arrest. Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks confirmed late last week that Demetrius Cordell Crenshaw was charged by city police with one count each of first degree possession of marijuana and possession…

Despite small crowds, ‘Drive Green’ event deemed a success

By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer The crowds that attended Smith Tractor Company’s three-store, John Deere-sponsored “Drive Green” event on April 13 were smaller than company officials had hoped for. The company’s sales manager, who said the less-than-anticipated turnout was most likely a matter of perception, still deemed the promotion a successful one. “It was fair,” Dewayne Williams, general manager of STC’s Atmore store said of the collective crowd that…