Indictment

Suspect in Thanksgiving 2018 Galleria Mall Shooting Indicted on Assault Charges

Attorney General Steve Marshall has announced the indictment of Erron Martez Dequan Brown, 23, of Birmingham. Brown faces two assault charges for his role in a shooting at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover. The shooting occurred on Thanksgiving day in 2018. The Attorney General’s office presented evidence to a Jefferson County grand jury which resulted in Brown indictment on February…

Federal Grand Jury in Montgomery Indicts Two Former North Alabama School Superintendents

Two former school superintendents from north Alabama are among six people facing charges of conspiracy, fraud and identity theft after they were indicted by a federal grand jury in Montgomery. Court documents unsealed today show former Athens school Superintendent Trey Holladay and former Limestone County Superintendent Tom Sisk were indicted, along with four other people including Holladay’s wife, Deborah Irby…

Butler County Probation Officer Charged With Sexual Assault

63 year old Terry Van Lewis faces sex charges

  The Alabama Attorney General’s Office describes the charges against him this way: one indictment charges that Lewis engaged in sexual intercourse with a member of the opposite sex by forcible compulsion, first-degree rape. The two remaining indictments charge that Lewis subjected another person to sexual contact by forcible compulsion. The victims in the cases were juveniles who were under…

Former Montgomery City Councilman Indicted

Watkins was youngest Councilman to date when he was elected for one four year term in 1979.

AP-AL–Investment Fraud Indictment BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – An Alabama attorney and his son are accused of defrauding investors and a bank out of millions of dollars. A news release from U.S. Attorney Jay Town says an indictment was handed up Thursday against 70-year-old Donald V. Watkins Sr., of Atlanta, and 46-year-old Donald V. Watkins Jr., of Birmingham. Each faces multiple…