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Dade Superior Term ends in some denouements, some continuances

Apr 19, 20172 min read

Dade Superior Term ends in some denouements, some continuances

Spring term in Dade Superior Court wound quietly down today without many jury trials. Most cases involved drugs and most defendants...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Apr 17, 20171 min read

Alabama Man Dead After Domestic Incident

On Friday, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call from a female calling in about a domestic violence situation on...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Apr 10, 20171 min read

DeKalb Deputies Graduate Academy

From left: Chief Michael Edmondson, Seth Cagle, David Stanley and DeKalb Sheriff Jimmy Harris. DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris is...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Apr 3, 20171 min read

DeKalb's Lt. Bartley Honored

(From left, DeKalb Sheriff Jimmy Harris, Sgt. Robin Snider, Lt. Anthony Bartley and Chief Deputy Michael Edmondson Lt. Anthony Bartley, a...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Mar 27, 20171 min read

DeKalb Sheriff's Office Sets Saturday Hours

“For the past couple of years we have been working on opening the office on Saturdays to accompany the people who are unable to make it...

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Woman shot in DeKalb; men charged with rape after missing juvenile found

Robin Ford Wallace

Mar 20, 20172 min read

Woman shot in DeKalb; men charged with rape after missing juvenile found

On Sunday, DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence in Valley Head, Ala., where a woman had been shot. Witnesses told...

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Dade Sheriff's Dept. Foils Wildwood Burglary; Trenton Shooting Accidental

Robin Ford Wallace

Mar 20, 20171 min read

Dade Sheriff's Dept. Foils Wildwood Burglary; Trenton Shooting Accidental

The Dade County Sheriff's Department confirmed it had interrupted a burglary in progress Friday evening, catching three would-be...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 20, 20171 min read

Charlie Wooten Nabbed After Chase

Around 9 a.m. on Friday, a Dade County Sheriff's Department deputy began a pursuit with a vehicle on District Line Road. The driver of...

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Preliminary Hearing for Kevin Wooten Shows Repeat Offenses

Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 16, 20173 min read

Preliminary Hearing for Kevin Wooten Shows Repeat Offenses

Charles "Kevin" Wooten, 40, appeared in Dade Magistrate Court on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing on drug and vehicular charges...

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Bettis Car Chase Case Heard in Magistrate Court Wednesday

Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 16, 20173 min read

Bettis Car Chase Case Heard in Magistrate Court Wednesday

Dade Magistrate Joel McCormick heard preliminary evidence on Wednesday in the Dade County Sheriff's Department's case against Brandon...

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DeKalb Makes Another Arrest in Church Robberies

Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 13, 20171 min read

DeKalb Makes Another Arrest in Church Robberies

DeKalb County Sheriff's investigators have continued to pursue all leads in a spate of thefts of rural churches in December. Two arrests...

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Roger, Over and Out: Trenton Police Chief Castleberry Steps Down After 40 Years

Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 9, 20176 min read

Roger, Over and Out: Trenton Police Chief Castleberry Steps Down After 40 Years

When Roger Castleberry started at the Trenton Police Department in 1977 as a tall, dark and handsome 22-year-old with a rakish mustache,...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 8, 20172 min read

Pisgah Teenager Killed By Jackson County Law After Shrugging Off Taser

Jackson County (Ala.) Sheriff Chuck Phillips confirmed this afternoon that one of his deputies had shot and killed Alex Christopher...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 7, 20171 min read

Have You Seen Lisa Phillips?

The Jackson County (Ala.) Sheriff's Department wants your help locating missing person Lisa Diane Allen Phillips (left). She is a white...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 7, 20171 min read

Arson/Insurance Fraud Arrest

The Dade County Sheriff's Department has arrested David Livesay of Trenton for arson and insurance fraud in the burning of a house...

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DeKalb School Employee Booked for Sex With Student

Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 4, 20171 min read

DeKalb School Employee Booked for Sex With Student

DeKalb County (Ala.) Sheriff’s Department investigators today arrested Billy Carl Jones, 42, of Fyffe, Ala., on charges of having sex...

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DNA Match Nabs Suspect In DeKalb Burglary

Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 2, 20172 min read

DNA Match Nabs Suspect In DeKalb Burglary

DeKalb County (Ala.) Sheriff Jimmy Harris issued the following update on a April 27, 2016, burglary at Fuel City gas station in Powell,...

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Robin Ford Wallace

Feb 1, 20171 min read

Ider School Stabbing

DeKalb County (Ala.) Sheriff Jimmy Harris reported that a juvenile had been stabbed at Ider School this morning when an argument broke...

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DeKalb Sheriff's Dept. Beefs up "Special Response Team"

Robin Ford Wallace

Jan 30, 20172 min read

DeKalb Sheriff's Dept. Beefs up "Special Response Team"

DeKalb County (Ala.) Sheriff Jimmy Harris announces the expansion of his Special Response Team (SRT) with the addition of new members...

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"If It Takes Us Two Days, It Takes Us Two Days": Talk, Not Bloodshed, Ends Piney Standoff

Robin Ford Wallace

Jan 30, 20173 min read

"If It Takes Us Two Days, It Takes Us Two Days": Talk, Not Bloodshed, Ends Piney Standoff

For a while there, it looked as if things could get nasty, but a standoff at Piney Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon between Dade County...

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