Posted Joshua Fuqua
By John Underwood / john@gulfcoastmedia.com
SUMMERDALE, Alabama A Florida man was arrested Monday in Summerdale after leading Sheriff’s Deputies on a high-speed chase that ended in a standoff near the Baldwin Beach Express in Summerdale.
According to Baldwin County Corrections Facility records, Joshua Errin Fuqua, 47, of Cantonment, Florida, was booked at around 9:30 p.m. Monday on misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, obstructing government operations and attempting to elude.
It started around 2 p.m. Monday when a Sheriff’s Deputy observed a vehicle moving erratically along U.S. 90 near the Baldwin Beach Express, said Capt. Clint Cadenhead with the BCSO Investigations Command.
Posted Brittnea Myers
By John Underwood / john@gulfcoastmedia.com
MONTGOMERY, Alabama A Loxley woman sentenced in 2013 for the 2011 stabbing death of her husband has been denied parole by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles in Montgomery.
According to a press release, the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles held 27 parole hearings Wednesday, Feb. 3 granting seven paroles and denying 20. Three parole hearings were continued to a later date. The board also held 10 hearings on requests for pardons.
Among those denied was Britnea Leann Myers, now 31, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence on manslaughter charges at the Birmingham Community Work Center.
Posted Alvin Hattenbach
Submitted release
MONTGOMERY, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the arrest Tuesday, Jan. 26 of a Robertsdale man on multiple charges of possession of child pornography.
According to a release issued Wednesday, Jan. 27 by the Attorney General’s Office, Alvin David Hattenbach, 66, of Robertsdale, was arrested by an agent with the AG’s office and taken to the Robertsdale city jail.
Online records show he was booked into the Baldwin County Corrections Facility on Jan. 26 and released on bond the next day. He is required to wear an ankle monitor, according to the release.
Attorney General Marshall’s Criminal Trials Division presented evidence to a Baldwin County grand jury, resulting in Hattenbach’s indictment on Jan. 12. Specifically, the indictment charges him with 25 counts of possession of obscene matter depicting a person under the age of 17.
Posted Christopher Atchison
By John Underwood / john@gulfcoastmedia.com
CROSSROADS, Alabama In what is believed to be the first homicide of 2021 in Baldwin County, a Bay Minette man is being charged with murder after another man died of gunshot wounds at a local hospital late Monday.
According to jail records, 30-year-old Christopher Lee Atchison of Bay Minette was booked into the Baldwin County Corrections Facility at 9:27 p.m. on Monday where he is currently being held without bond.
The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Department released a statement around 9:20 p.m. on Monday that a shooting had occurred around 4 p.m. that afternoon in the area of Whippoorwill Lane and Alabama 225 in the Crossroads Community near Bay Minette.
Posted Anthony Couch
BMPD release
BAY MINETTE, Alabama A Mobile man was sentenced to 446 years in prison on Thursday, Jan. 21 for the 2017 sexual assault of the daughters of a Bay Minette woman he was dating at the time.
According to a release issued Thursday by the Bay Minette police Department, 42-year-old Anthony Lacy Couch of Mobile was sentenced by Judge Scott Taylor on three counts of first-degree sodomy, first-degree forcible rape, second-degree sodomy, misdemeanor sex abuse and felony sex abuse.
According to the release, the sentence was the result of a complaint made by a parent of two minor female juveniles that came to the Bay Minette Police Department in July of 2017.