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A Brewton man found passed out in his vehicle parked at Tri-County Speedway was arrested Saturday night after a deputy sheriff discovered spice inside the vehicle. Terry Dewayne Beasley, 36, 5035 Hammac Road, Brewton, was charged with unlawful possession of synthetic cannaboids and booked into the Escambia County Detention Center. According to reports from the Escambia County Sheriff's Office, Inv. Scott Tart was working a security detail at the racetrack when he saw a vehicle with the parking...
A Brewton woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing from her employee, but whether she spends any time behind bars will be determined at a status hearing scheduled for Jan. 9. Leigh Graves Najor pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of property I and tampering with evidence last Wednesday in Escambia County Circuit Clerk. She was accused of stealing money from her employers at Brewton Insurance and Real Estate Agency. Circuit Judge Bert Rice sentenced Najor to...
One of two inmates who escaped from the Loxley Work Release Center Monday morning was captured near Windcreek Casino and Hotel after he jumped from a moving car and fled on foot. Damon Rashad Dinsmore, who was serving time on a burglary III conviction out of Franklin County, Ala., and a second inmate, Cantorius Alan White both left the work release center early Monday morning. Escambia County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Mike Lambert said the two men checked into a hotel in Loxley. White was...
A woman questioned after being seen leaving a well-known drug house and three separate traffic stops by East Brewton police officers sent four people to jail on drug charges. Jennifer Legere, 33, 100 Victory St., East Brewton, was arrested July 13 and charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance (acetaminophen hydrocodone). Police reports note Legere was seen leaving a residence known for selling drugs and was approached by an East Brewton police officer and discovered the pills...
I was pointed to a few Internet posts where the Flomaton Police Department was being ridiculed by some and applauded by others for arresting an Andalusia man Sunday afternoon on drug trafficking charges after Detective Chance Thompson found a bag containing 1,101 grams of an herbal substance called Kratom. I'd never heard of Kratom and didn't know what it was. The ridicule came from the fact the purchase of Kratom and the possession of Kratom is legal in the state of Florida and illegal in the...
I'm still scratching my head over all the time, effort and money being spent to determine whether the Russians 'meddled' or interfered with the 2016 presidential election that sent Donald Trump to the White House. Sure they did. But we do the same thing. We stick our noses in elections and politics all across the planet Earth. We've tried to influence elections and in some circumstances we've dropped bombs when we think the politics of another country are detrimental to us. Why should anybody...
An agent with the Alabama Bureau of Investigations was in Flomaton Monday to conduct an investigation into the alleged sabotage of a Flomaton firetruck. Escambia County District Attorney Steve Billy said Flomaton's Town Attorney Chuck Johns requested the investigation from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency after allegations were made during a June 11 Flomaton Town Council meeting. Billy said after Johns mentioned the situation to him, he contacted ALEA and they agreed to investigate. Billy...
Emergency personnel were on the scene for almost 24 hours straight beginning last Wednesday evening when six cars of a 13,000 foot CSX train derailed in Wawbeek forcing the closure of Highway 31 until late Thursday afternoon. Escambia County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Mike Lambert said the first 911 call concerning the derailment came shortly before 6 p.m. Lambert said when emergency personnel arrived on the scene they made contact with the conductor and were informed that the derailed cars...
County voters followed statewide voters in half of the Republican primary runoffs Tuesday on a day that saw 12.62 percent of registered voters in Alabama cast ballots and 7.24 percent in Escambia County. Unofficial returns posted by the Alabama Secretary of State's Office showed 428,646 ballots were cast across the state. In Escambia County, 1,826 people went to the polls. Escambia County voters joined the statewide trend in the races for attorney general, associate justice of the supreme court...
Having previously voted to combine its two lines of credit at Escambia County Bank and United Bank into one payment, the Flomaton Town Council held a special meeting Wednesday morning to vote on the issue because the exact amount owed on the existing line wasn't approved. On June 21, the council held a special meeting and approved combining the two lines of credit and having one note at Escambia County Bank. By doing so, it would open up $200,000 lines of credit at both banks. Mayor Dewey...
A Castleberry woman was charged with felony DUI and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia after she was found passed out behind the wheel of her vehicle on the shoulder of London Road. Angela Charlene Bell, 46, 180 Janice Lane, Castleberry, was booked into the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton Saturday after being released from D.W. McMillan Memorial Hospital. The felony DUI charge notes it was Bell's “fourth or subsequent conviction” for driving under the influence. According to...
A traffic stop Sunday morning in Riverview led to the arrest of an Alabaster man on misdemeanor drug charges but a computer check revealed the suspect had outstanding felony warrants in Shelby and Jefferson counties. Escambia County Sheriff's Office Investigator Deric Smith was working traffic on Highway 41 South shortly before noon Sunday when he noticed a silver car traveling north at a high rate of speed. Reports note Smith activated his radar and clocked the vehicle doing 71 mph in a 55 mph...
A Greenville man stopped for speeding was arrested on felony drug charges involving marijuana and Ecstasy. Escambia County Sheriff's Office Deputy Samuel Weeks was on patrol shortly after 8 a.m. Monday driving south on Highway 21 near Poarch Road when he observed a sliver car passing other vehicles heading north. A radar check revealed the car was traveling 61 mph in a 45 mph zone and Weeks initiated a traffic stop. Weeks reported when he made contact with the driver, identified as Joshua...
Friends of Century resident Eddie Hammond have launched a fundraising campaign to help raise $10,000 to get Hammond a pair of glasses that will give him the ability to see again. Hammond, 57, suffered an eye injury when he was 12-years old that caused glumacoma in his left eye. Years later the glumacoma moved to the right eye. “Four years ago I had a retina detachment in my right eye that left me totally blind in my right eye,” Hammond said. “I have very limited vision in my left eye and as a...
A Flomaton man remains in the Conecuh County jail on attempted murder charges after allegedly shooting a man in Castleberry and fleeing back to a Flomaton residence on Upper Creek Road. Eric Mathis, 23, 543 Highway 113, was arrested Saturday morning on the attempted murder charge for shooting a 56-year old Castleberry man in the head. According to reports, events began Saturday night when Mathis went to the Escambia County Detention Center in Brewton and met with Correctional Officer Peggy Sue...
Barring a successful appeal, Charles 'Chuck' Calvin McMullen will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Santa Rosa County judge sentenced the former law enforcement officer to eight consecutive life terms plus 15 years for sexually abusing four young boys. McMullen, a former Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office deputy, was working with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement when he was arrested in November, 2016. McMullen worked for FDLE as a supervisor overseeing child sex crimes....
Resurfacing of portions of Butler Street, Robinsonville Road, Sardine Road and Foshee Road should begin late August or early September following an agreement signed Monday between the Escambia County Commission and the Alabama Department of Transportation. The cost of resurfacing the 17.224 miles will be about $2.4 million with the county responsible for about $500,000. Assistant County Engineer Brad Solomon told the commissioners Mobile Asphalt submitted the low bid on the project. According...
As the town of Flomaton looks for ways to cut expenses, policies on employees taking town-owned vehicles home is one area the town council is looking at, but Town Attorney Chuck Johns said he can not get the information he needs to help develop such a policy. Councilwoman Lillian Dean told fellow council members Monday night that policies need to be developed for all departments. “Do we have policies to cover us?” Dean asked. “We need a policy on vehicles; can you do X,Y or Z or cannot do X,Y a...
Flomaton's monthly bills dropped from more than $80,000 to about $66,000 and the town's finances are in the black. However, council members said Monday night that it needs to keep a close watch on expenditures. Mayor Dewey Bondurant Jr., told the council the town was $3,109 in the black after paying bills, but did say several departments, other than the library, were over budget for the fiscal year. Councilman Charlie Reardon said the budget is a tool to go by and the council needs to know why...
Today (Thursday, July 12) is the last day to apply for an absentee ballot in Escambia County, Ala., for the July 17 Republican runoff. Circuit Clerk John Robert Fountain said as of Tuesday he had sent out 23 absentee ballots and had received nine ballots back. He also noted that more than half of the nine received were from voters who came to his office and filled out ballots on site. Absentee ballots must be returned to the circuit clerk's office by June 16 or put in the mail with a postmark...
The Escambia County (Fla.) Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating Devante Aaron Knight, 26, who is accused of an armed robbery on July 2 at Century Kwik Stop, located on Century Boulevard. Store employees said a male entered the store at 9:56 p.m. armed with a handgun. The suspect had his face covered, with the only thing the clerk could see was the suspect's hands. The suspect, now identified at Knight, came around the counter, pointed a gun at the clerk and fled with an...
Charles 'Chuck' Calvin McMullen, who worked with the Escambia County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office at different times from 1989 to September, 2005, and worked as an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's child sex crimes unit was found guilty last Saturday on nine counts of child sex crimes. A Santa Rosa County jury deliberated about three and a half hours Saturday before finding McMullen guilty of one count of sexual battery of a child under the age of 12, one count of promoting...
Damage to the Escambia County Courthouse in Brewton in December, 2015, from a broken heating and cooling line has led to the discovery of more issues that now has the county commission looking at options that include building a new $13 million courthouse. During an administrative workshop Tuesday Commission Chairman Raymond Wiggins said the courthouse has major issues, which is complicated by asbestos throughout the building. Due to the damage caused by the broken pipe in 2015 the commission...
A Pensacola man who stopped at a Flomaton automative repair shop to get the Wi-Fi turned off because he thought someone was controlling his car ended up in the Escambia County Detention Center on drug charges following a traffic stop by Flomaton police. About 11:51 a.m. last Thursday (June 28), Flomaton police reported they got a call of a driver suspected of driving under the influence. The driver, identified as Bruce Moore Sharron, 55, 22 Via Deluna Drive, Pensacola, reportedly went to...
Atmore resident Jerry Gehman was removed from the Southern Rail Commission following critical remarks about Gov. Kay Ivey's decision not to commit $5.3 million in state funds to help bring back passenger rail along the gulf coast. Gehman, 59, was appointed to the rail commission in 2016 by then Gov. Robert Bentley. The funds from the state of Alabama were needed to jumpstart passenger rail from New Orleans to Mobile with future plans to extend the route through Atmore to Jacksonville and...
