A Montgomery police officer has been arrested and charged with second-degree sodomy in connection with a sexual assault. A court affidavit says 23-year-old Morris Leon Williams is charged with sexually assaulting an adult woman unable to consent "by reason of…
A Montgomery police officer has resigned after being arrested for fleeing a crash scene. Montgomery Department of Public Safety Spokeswoman Martha Earnhardt said in a statement that 22-year-old G.T. Farris was involved in a two-vehicle crash early Tuesday morning. Police…
Montgomery, Ala. – Audrey Valisha Porterfield, 44, of Montgomery, Alabama, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to steal federal funds, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. Previously, all six of Porterfield’s co-defendants pleaded guilty to the same…
[gtxvideo vid="tMlztDyQ" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/tMlztDyQ-120.jpg?cachebust=1459291077799" vtitle="macon co. murders"] On Monday March 14, Macon County Sheriff’s Office requested the State Bureau Investigation (SBI) investigate the murder of Timothy Woods. The SBI, with the assistance of Macon County Sheriff’s Office, developed probable…
On Sunday March 27, at approximately 12:30 am, the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s Department was notified of a shooting which reportedly occurred on Hayes Mill Road in Tallapoosa County. Upon the arrival of Deputies and Investigators with the Tallapoosa County Sheriff’s…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a former assistant police chief has been sentenced for beating a man during an interrogation, making false statements and selling drugs. Authorities said in a release Friday that 41-year-old former assistant Tallassee police…
Steven Joshua Dinkle, 30, a former Exalted Cyclops of the Ozark, Alabama chapter of the International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), was arraigned in federal court on March 22, 2016 on charges of being a felon in possession of…
On Wednesday, March 23, Daquan Denzell Sheely, 20, of Jacksons Gap, Alabama was arrested and charged with Promoting Prison Contraband, 1st degree. Preliminary investigation that Sheely was found to have a handgun in the facility that was recovered after receiving information that he…
Around 8:30 Wednesday night on Interstate 65 in Greenville, a man was hit and killed by a vehicle. Troopers say 27-year old Gene Schofield died when a vehicle hit him while on the shoulder. Schofield, a tow truck operator, was assisting…
[gtxvideo vid="LIDWgcrH" playlist="" pid="2gxTqEDg" thumb="http://player.gtxcel.com/thumbs/LIDWgcrH-120.jpg?cachebust=1458916445518" vtitle="WAKA_2016_03_24_23_06_39"] A judge has found probable cause to send the case of Montgomery police officer Aaron Smith to a grand jury. Smith appeared in court today for a preliminary hearing in connection to the Feb. 25 shooting death…
