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City parks closed
Council OKs summonses instead of arrests in most cases Basketball goals removed at West Park. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore City Council adopted during a special session held Saturday morning, March 28, a resolution authorizing city police to issue a summons instead of making a physical arrest for most minor crimes until the COVID-19 pandemic runs its course. Suspects will still be jailed for any crime involving violence…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Body discovered
APD working homicide investigation Remains were found in this trailer with no lights, water, sewer service. By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore police are conducting a homicide investigation after officers responding to a burglary call discovered a “badly decomposing body” in a Jones Street mobile home. “Basically, what we have is a death investigation, but we are working it as a homicide,” Police Chief Chuck Brooks said this week.…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago
Summonses instead of arrests for minor crimes
Atmore City Council, sitting one member short, adopted Saturday morning (March 28) a resolution authorizing city police to issue a summons instead of making a physical arrest for most minor crimes. Suspects will still be jailed for any crime involving violence or the threat of violence, as well as any crime involving alcohol or controlled substances, if in the opinion of the investigating officer the the suspect poses a risk…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
State prisons not accepting new inmates
News Staff Report Alabama Department of Corrections officials announced this week that, effective immediately, the department is placing a 30-day moratorium on new intakes from county jails. The restriction includes, but is not limited to, new commitments, court returns, and parolees and probationers who are revoked or sanctioned to a dunk (a sentence of usually three days in jail, ordered by a probation or parole officer for a technical violation).…
by Atmore News access_time4 years ago
‘Uncharted territory’
By DON FLETCHER News Staff Writer Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks said last week that APD officers and other emergency personnel are doing — and will continue to do — whatever it takes to keep city residents safe during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But, the police chief admitted, the spread of the virus and the measures that must be taken to stymie the spread, represent a new situation for him…
by Don Fletcher access_time4 years ago