On July 23, 2024, officers with the Scottsboro Police Department responded to a one-vehicle accident near the 17000 block of AL Hwy 35. During the course of the accident investigation, officers discovered marijuana, hydrocodone, and alprazolam pills inside the vehicle. The driver and sole occupant of the vehicle, Curtis Dale Parker, W/M, 41, was transported …
The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries (ADAI) has confirmed the presence of Africanized Honeybees (AHB) in Jackson County. ADAI is taking swift action to mitigate any risks associated with these invasive bees. Traps are being set up within a five-mile radius of the detection sites to capture and identify any further presence of AHB. …
The Jackson County Alabama Sheriff’s office is looking for a man who escaped while returning to jail. The sheriff’s office says Truan Bobby Evans was attending a rehab session. A relative was returning him to jail when he jumped out and fled. Evans has been charged with a probation violation and escape, 3rd offense. His …
On May 21, 2024, at approximately 7:30pm Jackson County, Alabama Sheriff’s deputies, Scottsboro Police and medical personnel responded to a 911 call about a person being shot on County Road 21 in the Pikeville, Alabama community. Tracy Thomas Bradford age 58 of Scottsboro was found deceased at the location. The investigation determined that there had …
Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would provide new sentences for about 30 inmates who were given the death penalty despite a jury’s recommendation of life imprisonment. The House Judiciary Committee voted 9-4 against the bill that would give life without parole sentences to the death row inmates who were placed there under …
On Sunday, around 1:20 AM, a shooting took place in Scottsboro, AL, at 207 W. Willow Street. Scottsboro Police Department responded and found the victim, Deuntae Jarrod Johnson, 31, of Scottsboro, lying on the ground in the parking lot. Johnson had been shot multiple times and died from his injuries after being transported to Highlands …
The Scottsboro Police Department has released a missing person report. Brianna Lynn Owens-Phillips was last heard from on November 25, 2023, at approximately 2:00 PM. She was believed to be in the Stevenson, Alabama, area. She is known to drive a 2006 green Ford F-150. She is listed as a white female, age 34, 5’ …
Alvin Dean Cornelison, a 75-year-old man from Scottsboro, Alabama, has been charged with the murder of his wife after a Thursday incident at the couple’s home. Scottsboro Police say Cornelison confessed to the officers that he had taken the life of his wife, Mary. Her body was found inside their home. Cornelison is currently detained …
The DeKalb County, Alabama sheriff’s department has arrested a man for breaking into multiple vehicles at Matheny’s Bridge –a natural creek area on the Fyffe to Macedonia Road near the Jackson County line that’s popular with locals for swimming. 28-year-old Crossville native Thomas Wesley Harris was arrested on Thursday, June 6th, 2023 in the incident. …
