Two people remained in jail Tuesday and another was taken to the hospital after a victim of a robbery took the law into his own hands this week, according to the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office.
Derrell Stanley 29, of Stockton, told Baldwin County authorities that he, Justin Moore, 24, of Stockton, and Lisa French took a small amount of aluminum and copper to Donald Wilson’s home in the Pine Grove community, according to Maj. Anthony Lowery, a spokesman for the Sheriff’s Office.
When Wilson, who is in his mid 70s, pulled out his wallet to pay for the items, Moore grabbed the billfold, shoved Wilson and took off running, Lowery said.
The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office is looking for two heavily armed and dangerous men.
Deputies say the men seen in the surveillance photos stormed into the Colonial Bank in Lillian around 3:00 p.m. They demanded money from the terrified tellers. At least one customer was in the bank at the time of the robbery.
Gulf Shores police on Thursday night arrested a 44-year-old Bay Minette man and charged him with breaking into unoccupied beach houses and stealing flat screen televisions.
Derrick Tyrone Arrington was arrested just before 8 p.m. Thursday leaving an unoccupied rental house, according to a Gulf Shores Police Department news release. Arrington faces 10 counts of third degree burglary and police said more charges may be added.
An Elberta convenience store was burglarized early Thursday morning when someone smashed the glass door and made off with five cartons of cigarettes, police said.
Elberta Police Chief Gary Peaden said the store’s security camera captured a person wearing a gray ski mask, black gloves, gray sweatshirt and blue jeans breaking the door of the Miflin BP in the 24000 block of Baldwin County 20 with a hammer about 1:40 a.m.
A Foley man who fired a gun during a credit union robbery and then stole the manager’s car will spend almost eight years in prison, a federal judge in Mobile decided Thursday.
Chief U.S. District Judge Ginny Granade said that she did not believe the minimum prison term under advisory sentencing guidelines — seven years and three months — was appropriate. So she sentenced Jarvis Latron McAllister to seven years and 11 months behind bars for bank robbery.
A quick stop at a local Wal-Mart store ends with a father, James Miley, Jr. and his mother, Allison Miley going to jail after leaving a five month old little boy locked in a car for almost an hour in the Foley Wal-Mart parking lot.
“It was an accident,” James Miley told News Five as he was being led into the Foley Police Department. Allison Miley called it a mistake, “I ran in for ten minutes in Wal-Mart forgot he was there.”
Both James Miley, Jr. and Allison Miley faced a municipal court judge in Foley Tuesday afternoon and plead guilty to endangering the welfare of a child and was given a 180 day suspended sentence and will serve 30 days in the Foley Detention Center.
The Daphne Police Department is committed to bringing the murderer of Brianna Parish to justice. Brianna’s murder has been and will remain the number one priority for the police department. All leads are being pursued and all evidence is being processed. Some information may be withheld as the release of that information may hinder current and future investigative leads. The withheld information will be released as soon as possible.
Gulf Shores police have arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him in a string of burglaries along Wedgewood Drive.
Patrick Clifton Hatcher was arrested early Saturday morning after police set up a watch in the neighborhood where the doors of three homes had been kicked in on previous nights, Police Chief Arthur Bourne said
A convenience store in the Barnwell community, south of Fairhope, was robbed late Monday, Fairhope police said.
At 7:40 p.m. Monday, a white man with a pistol — described as being in his early 20s and wearing a gray, hooded sweatshirt — entered the In & Out Express, said Sgt. Craig Sawyer. The man left the store, which is just north of the intersection of U.S. 98 and Scenic 98, with an undisclosed amount of cash, Sawyer said.
A Gulf Shores mother faces criminal charges for leaving her three year old inside a car all night. Larissa Dorough was arrested for endangering the welfare of a child and drug possession.
Officers found her son buckled in his car seat with the back car door open.
Officers located Dorough inside her home with a two year old little girl. Officers say they also found a controlled substance. The children are now in the custody of the Department of Human Resources.
Four men stormed Ed’s Seafood Shed waving guns, including a military-style rifle, just before the restaurant closed late last week, an official confirmed today.
The Spanish Fort restaurant on the Causeway was empty, save for 11 employees during the “take-over” style robbery that lasted less than five minutes, said Spanish Fort Police Chief David Edgar.
The men carried what employees described as a semi-automatic long rifle, a shotgun and two handguns, Edgar said.
Police here arrested three men this week and charged them with robbing an apartment complex resident at gunpoint, an official said today.
Charlie Crook, 20, Christopher Watkins, 21, both of Bay Minette, and Nathaniel Nero, 32 of Daphne, were all charged with first-degree robbery, officials said.
As of this afternoon, all three men remained in the Baldwin County Corrections Center on no bond.
This week, the family of Brianna Parish prepares to bid their final goodbye to a young woman whose life was cut short by murder.
In a news conference Monday, Daphne Police said they believe there is a possibility of a drug connection to Brianna’s murder. Police say they have evidence Brianna has taken drugs in the past.
“Now i’m angry,” Parish said. “I’ve been hurt, hurt, hurt. But thank you Daphne Police. Now I am angry. Maybe I can get through this now because I am so angry.”
Daphne police have named a “person of interest” in the Brianna Parish murder case.
Police say 43-year-old Troy MacDonald is the last person who was seen with Parish Tuesday night, the night she vanished from the Bay House Pub on Highway 98.
MacDonald is cooperating with investigators and currently is not a suspect in the killing, Lt. Jud Beedy, Daphne police spokesman, said today. The reason for naming him publicly is that investigators believe MacDonald and Parish may both have been involved in illegal drug activity.
One of two people remained in the Bald win County Corrections Center on Friday after being arrested on hunting and drug-related charges last week, according to jail records.
Alan Blake Clark Jr., 28, of Atmore, and Charissa Leigh Clarke, 21, of Central, Fla., were both arrested around midnight Wednesday and charged with night hunting and hunting from a public road, both misdemeanors, according to law enforcement officials and jail records. The pair were also charged with possession of a controlled substance, a Class C felony, generally punishable by up to 10 years.
