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Police release details of Walgreen robbery
Atmore Police Chief Chuck Brooks, in a press release issued Friday morning, revealed several of the basic details of Tuesday night’s armed robbery of the local Walgreen Drug Store. Brooks revealed that city police were sent to the South Main Street pharmacy at approximately 9:55 p.m. after employees of Walgreen’s corporate security division noticed that employees of the Atmore store were lying on the floor and notified local authorities that…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Alleged crimes against child
An Atmore man has been charged with enticing a child and sexual abuse of a child under 12 years of age. According to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, the arrest came as the result of a complaint that was received about an incident that occurred on August 5. Allegations were made that Ricky Terrell Pratt, 19, Liberty Street address, had lured a child under the age of 12 into a…
by Atmore News access_time7 years ago
Murder suspect arrested – Atmore man charged in August shooting of bike rider (Updated)
An Atmore man, free on bond from several drug-related and other charges, is back behind bars after his arrest for the August 3 murder of a Camden man who was shot to death as he rode his bicycle along a street in the city’s northeastern sector. Police Chief Chuck Brooks confirmed that Ladarius Jamaal Crenshaw, 22, is charged with the shooting death of 31-year-old Shawn Oneil Quarles. Quarles, a Camden…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago
Brennan Peacock is Atticus
Brennan Peacock hadn’t been in Atmore long when he auditioned for the part of Atticus in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Actually, it wasn’t even his idea to audition. As of July 1, the Rev. Brennan Peacock is the pastor at Atmore First United Methodist Church. He and his family (wife Patti, sons Eli and Adam), had arrived in Atmore just before the Greater Escambia Council for the Arts presented “Annie.”…
by Sherry Digmon access_time7 years ago
Fires indirect result of power outage – Motorist apparently clipped pole after falling asleep at the wheel
Official reports indicate that a freak traffic accident was the indirect cause of both a fatal blaze that ravaged a Carver Avenue home early September 12 and claimed the life of a 65-year-old woman who lived there, and another fire that destroyed a mobile home just a few hours earlier on Old Ship Circle. Fire officials have determined that candles left unattended in the mobile home were the catalyst for…
by Don Fletcher access_time7 years ago