Saturday, June 18, 2011

Skipperville men charged in Clio Drug break-ins

Two arrests have been made in connection with the April 7 burglary of Clio Drug Company in downtown Clio, according to Clio police chief Richard Johnson.
Jonathan Watson, 38, of County Road 64 in Skipperville and Ronald Blackman, 32, of 3143 County Road 57 in Skipperville were arrested Friday, June 3. Watson was charged with criminal mischief, burglary third degree and theft of property second degree, a felony. Watson was arrested at his residence.
Blackman was charged with receiving stolen property second degree. At the time he was in the Coffee County Jail, having been placed there following his arrest and charge of burglary in connection with the May 26 burglary of Center Drug in Enterprise.
The Dale County Sheriff’s Department and the Wiregrass Violent Crime Drug Task Force made the arrests, according to Johnson.
Clio Drug experienced break-ins twice during the month of April. The first break-in occurred April 7 around 2:30 a.m., according to Johnson. The second break-in occurred around 4 a.m. on April 23. During both incidents, the store’s front glass was shattered. Johnson estimated these damages at approximately $350. Pain medications oxycodone and lorcet were also taken from the store.




Why are you paying more at the pumps in Some areas then others in Covington County?




Tune in to WKNI TV 25 Monday for an Exclusive story on what is really happening with local gas prices. Eddie went out this past week and investigated alligations that a local business person was charging more for gas in one Covington City then another.

To read this and other news stories from WKNI TV 25 click here

Webb man gets 12 years

A Webb man received a 12-year prison sentence earlier this week after he pleaded guilty to molesting two teenage girls.
Attorney Eric Davis said his client, Herman Dewayne Cannon, 21, of Furnie Folks Road, pleaded guilty to three felony counts of second-degree sodomy and two felony counts of second-degree rape. Davis said Circuit Court Judge Larry Anderson sentenced Cannon to 12 years in prison for each of the charges, which he ordered to be served concurrently with each other.
Court records indicate Houston County Sheriff’s deputies arrested him in September 2010. According to the warrants in the cases, both victims are from Ashford. One girl was 14 when the sexual assaults started. The other one was 15 years old when they started.
Cannon faced two to 20 years in prison for each of the class B felony crimes.

Food program comes to Clio

Calvary Assembly of God in Clio will host its Summer Food Service Program through July 15.
This USDA government-funded program is free for children 18 and under. Meals will be served from 10:30 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday. Children participating will also enjoy Bible stories, games, movies and exercises.
Call 397-2278 for details.

Beat the Summer Heat! Cool Off at Blue Springs State Park

Need an Affordable way to beat the heat! Visit Blue Springs State Park which is fed by a crystal-clear underground spring, the park's spring pool is the center of attention in this 103-acre park in southeast Alabama. The Spring is a constant 68 degrees with 3,600 gallons a minute which flows into the Choctawhatchee River.



  Facilities include modern and primitive campgrounds, picnic shelters, tables, grills, comfort stations, and playground.
Blue Springs is open 7 a.m. to sundown, year round and has very reasonable entrance fees. The Fees are listed below.

Entrance Fee
Adults (Weekdays): $2
Adults (Weekends): $3
Child (6 years -11 years old): $1
Child (5 and Under):  Free
Seniors (age 62 and older) & Disabled Citizens: $1 

For more info on  Blue Springs State Park contact them at:

2595 Hwy. 10
Clio, AL 36017
334-397-4875
334-397-4875 (fax)

BREAKING NEWS- 2 killed, 2 children injured in Guntersville plane crash

GUNTERSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -
Around 10:00 a.m. Saturday, Marshall County Sheriff's officials said that a plane crash near the Guntersville airport killed two people and injured two others.
Officials on the scene said a family was in the plane. A man and a woman were killed in the wreck. A girl between the ages of four and six was taken to Huntsville Hospital by a medical helicopter, and a boy between the ages of six and eight old was also taken to a hospital by helicopter.
[Click here to view the airport's website]
Guntersville Police Chief Jim Peterson said the plane was a Piper low wing general aviation aircraft. It is unclear whether it was arriving or departing. It crashed in a yard on Buck Island in Marshall County.
The plane was reportedly in four pieces with a wing completely broken off, the fuselage burned, and the tail section broken off.
Several emergency crews responded to the scene. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Federal Aviation Admission are headed to the scene.


Train hits car, woman airlifted to hospital

AUBURN, AL (WTVM) - A woman was airlifted to the Columbus Regional after her car was hit by a train Friday morning.

The woman's condition is not known at this time, but Auburn Police say she is extremely fortunate that the train did not crush the car when the two collided at North Stage Road railroad crossing around 9:00 a.m.

Officers tell us the westbound CSX train struck the vehicle on the passenger side door and pushed it about 500 yards.

There are no crossing arms at the crossing, where the accident happened.
Detectives say there are signals that alert drivers that a train is coming.
The accident remains under investigation.



Click on the link below to watch the video report !

http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=14930578&autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=5967546

Alleged mastermind behind 72 murders arrested

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (CNN) - Mexican authorities announced the arrest of the man they said directed the kidnappings of 72 Central and South American migrants found slain in San Fernando, Tamaulipas.
Federal Police officials said Edgar Huerta montiel, alias "El Wache," told them he led the capture of two freight trucks packed with undocumented migrants in the state of Tamaulipas, and then killed 10 of the victims.
Huerta, identified as an army deserter who works for the zetas drug gang, allegedly told police he also ordered the kidnappings of six busloads of passengers in the rural town of San Fernando.
Captives were taken to safe houses and tortured for information, including whether they were working for a rival gang known as the gulf cartel, said Ramon Eduard Pequeno, head of the anti-drug division of the federal police.
The bodies of 72 migrants turned up on August on a ranch in San Fernando after one of the group escaped.
In the same area, authorities this spring found clandestine graves with the remains of nearly 200 people believed kidnapped from buses heading toward the border.
Huerta was arrested Thursday in the northern state of Zacatecas.
Migrants are frequently seized by criminal gangs seeking to extort money from victims' loved ones.

Walton County Sheriff's Office Arrests Santa Rosa Beach Man for Homicide

The Walton County Sheriff's Office (WCSO) today announces the arrest of Steven Anthony Cozzie, 21, of Santa Rosa Beach , Fla. for the murder of a 15 year-old female from Georgia .

The WCSO received a call at approximately 4:06 p.m. yesterday from the victim’s mother who stated that her daughter had not returned from a walk with an acquaintance that she met while vacationing in Walton County .  She was missing for approximately three hours before the WCSO was contacted. 

The WCSO obtained a description of the juvenile’s acquaintance and issued a “be on the lookout” (BOLO) to area law enforcement to search for the missing teen.   The case has evolved into a homicide investigation and the victim’s body was located near Cypress Grove Lane in Seagrove , Fla.


Steven Anthony Cozzie was charged with an open count of murder and booked into the Walton County Jail


The WCSO has provided basic information about the case to the public while it continues to conduct a thorough and methodical criminal investigation to ensure the information that is released by the agency is clear and factual. 

The WCSO will host a press conference today at 3 p.m. to discuss the facts of the case and to mitigate misinformation released to the public from sources outside the WCSO.  No media interviews will be granted prior to the press conference. 

Big Brother's Prison...and the signs pointing the way...get ready world!

“...Rather than tyrannize, he inhibits, represses, saps, stifles, and stultifies, and in the end he reduces each nation to nothing but a flock of timid and industrious animals, with the government as its shepherd.”
Another in a series of editorial commentaries that will go unheeded by the masses.  We have become in Eric Holder's words, "A nation of cowards."  ...although I differ with Holder on who are the real cowards.   The real cowards are the brain-dead, indoctrinated members of political parties unwilling to stand up for those ideals on which this nation was founded.  Is it their fault? Partly...(for not having the intestinal fortitude to squash the indoctrination or the foresight to see it coming).  I would venture to say that 100% of Obama voters had no clue to what was forthcoming...including some of the most educated minds.  Here's an exchange between Laura Ingraham (radio talk-show host [OK 'hostess']) and Harry Alford (president and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce):

Laura Ingraham: "Marxist? But you voted for him... Why did you vote for him?" Harry Alford: "Because he was black. The worst mistake I ever made in my life."
You can listen to the entire interview here 
Now Mr. Alford is no dummy yet he is man enough to admit when he made a mistake (albeit too late).  Is Mr. Alford a coward?  Not hardly...but he sure exposed a bit of racism by his answer! Well who are the cowards?
I run into cowards daily whenever I'm reading the comment section of various publications.  Here's an example...lets call him Geoff (for that's what he calls himself):
Geoff says,"...The stimulus was far too small and should have been around 2 trillion according to leading economists. Far higher taxes and more government investment will also stimulate growth. Look at what government investment has brought us...the Internet along with almost every modern convenience." Read more here.
Clearly Geoff has been indoctrinated by the ultra left wing of the Democratic party for none of which he says makes for a sound economy.  And where does he find those leading economists?  "Far higher taxes and more government investment will also stimulate growth." ...I don't think so!  Growth in what?  Certainly not jobs, for all government jobs puts a strain on the economy and can only be supported by the private sector.  What happens when the government jobs exceed the private sector?   Where will the government get the funds to pay all those government employees?  Talk about unsustainable!  That's an understatement!  I hate to broadcast the news to Geoff but every convenience, not just "almost every modern convenience",  was bought to us by the hard work and innovation of private enterprise (Individualism not Socialism)...how else did we become the most successful country in the history of the world!  So Geoff gets classified as a coward for allowing some politician that wants nothing but control over the masses to manipulate his mind into believing fairy tales.  Geoff refuses to stand for the ideals that brought forth a great nation...ideals of our forward thinking, freedom loving, Founding Fathers.  There are plenty of Geoffs out there and all of them fail to see the sword coming and for this the rest of us have to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune garnered by the politic elite.
Sorry to pick on you today Geoff but if the rest of us believed  in those fairy tales we will all end up in Big Brother's Prison (see following story, also there's a note for Geoff at the bottom of this page).  

Montgomery police are searching for a killer who shot a 14-year-old girl this evening.

THIS IS BREAKING NEWS COMING INTO THE WSFA 12 NEWSROOM

Montgomery police are searching for a killer who shot a 14-year-old girl
this evening.

Details are limited at this time, but WSFA 12 News and WSFA NEWS  are trying
to gather additional information.

CLICK HERE
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=14926192
for our web coverage.

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Date: Jun 17 2011 9:36 AM

On the evening of June 15, 2011 Investigators with the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office were contacted by a female complainant under the age of 18 who had been propositioned for sex through the internet and text messages.  The messages clearly indicated that an adult male was going to pay the underage girl fifteen hundred dollars to meet with him for a sexual encounter.  Investigators took the information and arranged a meeting with the suspect but substituted a female officer for the underage girl. The meeting was carried out with the suspect while back up officers monitored the encounter with surveillance equipment.  The suspect then verbally confirmed his intentions concerning the deal with the assumed juvenile and was then arrested.  The suspect was then identified as Bobby Joe Sampson (23) of Westville.  Sampson was transported to the Holmes County Jail where he will have his first appearance in court on the charge of procuring persons under the age of 18 for prostitution. The investigation has since revealed that the suspect had communicated with several other females offering them money for sexual favors.


Northview High School Teacher Arrested

On June 17, 2011 the Dothan Police Department Juvenile Investigative Division made a felony arrest following an extensive investigation. Due to the sensitive nature of the case, limited details are being released however investigators say Calvin Bell-Tharpe; a teacher at Northview High School has been arrested for engaging in intercourse with a student.



·        Calvin Bell-Tharpe, black male, 30 years of age, of Denton Road was arrested and charged with School Employee engaging in a sex act or deviant sexual intercourse with a student under the age of 19 years with a $175,000 conditional bond which will prohibit the suspect from any interaction with children under the age of seventeen.


TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO MARIJUANA AND CURRENCY SEIZURE


At approximately 2:38 am on June 17, 2011, an officer with the Bonifay Police Department conducted a traffic stop on a 2009 Chevrolet truck for a speed violation. As the officer approached the driver’s door a strong odor of burnt marijuana was detected. Further investigation led to the discovery and seizure of approximately 24 grams of suspected marijuana packagedfor individual sale. Numerous items of drug paraphernalia associated with marijuana use were located, along with alcoholic beverages and approximately $400.00 in U.S. Currency.
The driver of the vehicle was identified as William Clark Ledbetter a white male, 20 years-of-age, from Bessemer, AL. He along with his passenger, identified as Michael Clay Hocutt, a white male, 20 years of age, from Birmingham, AL were placed under arrest and transported to the Holmes County Jail. Ledbetter has been charged with possession of marijuana over 20 grams with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of alcohol under 21 years-of-age. Hocutt was booked on charges of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of alcohol under 21 years-of-age. At first appearance this morning, Ledbetter received a total bond of $7,000.00 and Hocutt pled to county probation.

BREAKING NEWS: Dothan Police in a Pursuit

Dothan Police Officer was on patrol when he attempted to stop a vehicle near Madison Ave. When the officer hit the lights, the driver hit the gas. A pursuit started, the driver was observed by the officer trowing something from the car. The driver bailed out on East Carrol and ran behind a house while the passenger ran a different direction.

The officer gave chase to the driver and caught him in a ditch behind a house in the 300 block of East Carrol. The passenger was stopped on Roberts Street. Paramedics have been called to treat the driver for cuts caused by the foot pursuit.

The driver while attempting to get away from the officer was reported to have been tazed. Both the driver, and the passenger have been taken into custody.

Congrats to Officer Money on getting his man.....