According to mental health experts in Calhoun County, families of dementia patients often wait until behavior is erratic and unsafe to take action. The result in certain cases can be jail, however, if that erratic behavior consists of criminal activity. Read the full story
An Anniston man was arrested and charged with multiple drug-related crimes over the course of two days last week. Read the full story
An Anniston man was recently charged with unlawful distribution of a controlled substance after he allegedly dealt methamphetamine from his home more than four years ago. Read the full story
Heflin police officer Danny Turner arrested LaBrandon Troupe, 37, from East Point, Ga., after Turner and officer Tyler Murphy discovered a black duffle bag containing 14 pounds of marijuana in the vehicle’s trunk. Read the full story
An Anniston man was arrested and charged with multiple drug-related crimes over the course of two days last week.
An Anniston man was recently charged with unlawful distribution of a controlled substance after he allegedly dealt methamphetamine from his home more than four years ago.
Heflin police officer Danny Turner arrested LaBrandon Troupe, 37, from East Point, Ga., after Turner and officer Tyler Murphy discovered a black duffle bag containing 14 pounds of marijuana in the vehicle’s trunk.
Lacey Elizabeth Singer, 20, was last seen in the vicinity of Jacksonville’s Public Square Monday morning, according to a press release from the Police Chief Marcus Wood.
Matthew Wade was sworn in for his first full term as Calhoun County’s sheriff Monday at the Oxford Civic Center. After his swearing in, Wade led roughly 100 uniformed officers in an oath to support and defend the Constitution.
Images from Calhoun County Sheriff Matthew Wade swearing in ceremony at the Oxford Civic Center.
Jacksonville’s assistant police chief Monday told the city’s Civil Service Board that his new boss, hired by the City Council last month, doesn’t have the experience required in the board’s job description.
A 17-year-old from Lincoln was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the face Thursday night after what Calhoun County’s sheriff says was likely a drug deal gone wrong in Hobson City.
An inmate at the Calhoun County Jail suspected of attacking another inmate last month has been charged, according to Sheriff Matthew Wade.
A 32-year-old woman showed up in a LaGrange, Ga., hospital Wednesday with a gunshot wound — a wound she says she got in Anniston, police say.
Anniston police charged several people with alcohol-related offenses over the Christmas holiday, but no more than would be expected on any other weekday, according to police.
Figures on the number of traffic tickets Jacksonville police have written recently have raised some eyebrows, but solid explanations for those figures are harder to come by.
Dalton Ray Summers, 20, of Weaver was charged with promoting prison contraband in the third degree after he was caught delivering six bundles of tobacco to an inmate who is charged with murder.
A former Anniston police officer at the heart of a federal lawsuit says he left the department after it failed to back him on his decision to stop and question a woman walking down a street — a stop he said was in keeping with police training.
Two Noble Street businesses and a car were hit by gunfire in a Sunday morning incident, police and a local business owner say.
An inmate in the Calhoun County Jail who was attacked last weekend is “on his deathbed,” according to family.
Police said a series of bogus threats around Calhoun County on Thursday led to the evacuation of at least one credit union branch and spurred searches that found no real danger. The hoax appears to have been part of a nationwide wave of similar threats received by email at healthcare facilities, banks, schools and other institutions.
An Anniston man in federal prison for drug trafficking filed suit last week to have his conviction thrown out, arguing that one of the officers who arrested him had a history of pulling people over needlessly.
An inmate at the Calhoun County Jail was injured in a violent altercation during the weekend, according to Sheriff Matthew Wade.
Anniston police made a second arrest Monday in connection with the death last week of an Oxford woman who was found shot on a street in Saks last week.
Venus Felicia Godhigh, 38, of Anniston died at 12:08 p.m. Monday of wounds she suffered in a shooting in the 900 block of Second Street North in Birmingham, a deputy coroner said.
Police said the shooter was 29-year-old Robert Lee Jenkins of Anniston. Calhoun County Jail’s online inmate roster on Friday afternoon showed Jenkins in custody, charged with “homicide strong arm.”
An Oxford woman's shooting death near Anniston is under investigation, according to Anniston police.
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