A business on the Calhoun County line near Eastaboga reported $25,000 in fraudulent charges on a company credit card last week, according to a report filed by the Sheriff’s Office. Read the full story
An Anniston man was in custody in Etowah County today for an alleged connection with a woman's death and the shooting of another man in Attalla on Wednesday. Read the full story
Local law enforcement representatives say they recognize the threat posed by self-manufactured firearms, regardless of whether publication of gun blueprints becomes allowed. However, security measures might be altered to reduce that threat. Read the full story
A woman was allegedly dragged about 50 feet by a car after she had an argument with one of its passengers on Friday evening, according to a police report. Read the full story
An Anniston man was in custody in Etowah County today for an alleged connection with a woman's death and the shooting of another man in Attalla on Wednesday.
Local law enforcement representatives say they recognize the threat posed by self-manufactured firearms, regardless of whether publication of gun blueprints becomes allowed. However, security measures might be altered to reduce that threat.
A woman was allegedly dragged about 50 feet by a car after she had an argument with one of its passengers on Friday evening, according to a police report.
Cpl. Duff Manners, who has 20 years of experience as a resource officer for the school system, said he’d prefer if only trained officers like himself had access to firearms on campus. “There is an accumulative effect as far as training,” Manners said of school resource officers. “A principal might not have that.”
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According to a Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office report, the 26-year-old woman stated that the incident occurred around 10 a.m. on July 12.
The passenger of the vehicle, Darius Powell, 29, of Mississippi, was charged with drug trafficking and a weapons offense according to Heflin police officer Danny Turner. Powell was taken to the Cleburne County Jail and has since bonded out, according to Turner.
State Troopers have been in contact with a driver involved in a crash that killed a Heflin man July 14 along Interstate 20 about 4 miles west of Oxford.
One man was found dead and another injured, both from multiple gunshots, in an Anniston apartment on Monday night.
A Weaver woman recently charged in a 30-year-old Indiana homicide was arraigned in court on Monday. Barbara Brewster, 55, of Weaver, appeared before a St. Joseph County magistrate in Indiana on Monday and was ordered held without bond.
A 28-year-old man suffered serious injuries after he fell from a bridge while dodging a car that was swerving toward him early Wednesday morning in Anniston, police said.
According to the report, the alleged abuse occurred between May 1 and May 28 at a home on County Road 81 in Delta.
Two men from the Anniston area were indicted on gun charges in federal district court Wednesday, according to federal prosecutors.
According to Anniston police reports, Jose Luis Tena-Mancera, 55, was charged with trafficking methamphetamines and with possession of a controlled substance. Tena-Mancera is the Calhoun County Jail with a combined $305,000 bond for the two charges.
A store owner in the 2200 block of Noble Street reported the theft of an “unknown quantity of human hairpieces” to police Monday night. It’s one of the few felony property crimes reported Monday on what appeared to be a slow night for crime in Anniston.
A Wellington man faces two charges of firing a gun into an occupied vehicle after an incident earlier this month.
A jailer for the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office was arrested Friday on charges of sexual misconduct with an inmate, the sheriff announced Monday – the second such arrest at the jail in a week.
A chance encounter with a man on a bicycle led to the arrest of five people on drug charges Thursday night, Piedmont police say.
Anniston police Sgt. Kyle Price said officers responded to a 911 call around 9:30 p.m. from Glen Addie Homes. There, police found a 48-year-old man with a puncture wound to the upper torso, the sergeant said.
A Calhoun County sheriff’s deputy was recovering from whiplash and minor injuries on Friday after an Oklahoma man wrecked his Jeep into a patrol SUV, officials said.
Oxford police Chief Bill Partridge said Thursday morning he envisions a world where the Anniston and Oxford metro area is no longer considered one of the most dangerous in the state.
An Anniston man was charged with murder Wednesday evening after another man was shot and killed, police said.
Deputies charged a Cleburne County man with domestic violence after he stabbed a man during an argument, according to an investigator.
A Calhoun County jailer on Tuesday was charged in connection to a sexual relationship with a female inmate, Sheriff Matthew Wade said.
