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2 | LAGNIAPPE | November 13, 2014 - November 19, 2014 LAGNIAPPE ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• WEEKLY November 13, 2014 – November 19, 2014 | www.lagniappemobile.com Ashley Trice BAY BRIEFS Co-publisher/Editor Wafflegate in Bayou la Batre as mayor’s [email protected] parking accident is covered and Rob Holbert smothered in controversy. Co-publisher/Managing Editor 6 [email protected] Steve Hall COMMENTARY Marketing/Sales Director With the numbers in, it appears Mobile [email protected] County’s proposed soccer complex is in Gabriel Tynes for a difficult birth. Assistant Managing Editor 14 [email protected] Dale Liesch BUSINESS Reporter ServisFirst Bank makes a move to [email protected] downtown Mobile. 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LAGNIAPPE | November 13, 2014 - November 19, 2014 | 3 POLICE DISPATCH Discovery of body parts leads to Baldwin murder investigation BY ALYSON STOKES/REPORTER | [email protected] The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to “hotspot” for drug activity. block of Ridge Street and located by officers at approximately investigate what officials believe to be a homicide after human Gray attempted to flee and pulled out a stolen semi-auto- 9:30 a.m., MPD spokesman officer Terence Perkins said. remains were located in different areas of Magnolia Springs. matic handgun as officers gave chase, MPD spokeswoman According to Perkins, officers observed injuries on the boy On Nov. 9, investigators were called to the scene after a dog Ashley Rains said. that were consistent with abuse. The Department of Human discovered a human arm near the end of Lipscomb Road, with According to Rains, officer Matthew Winston then drew his Resources was notified and responded to assist with the inves- a bearing a distinct Tungsten ring. Baldwin County Sheriff weapon, fired one shot and struck Gray in the leg. tigation, he said. Huey “Hoss” Mack confirmed Nov. 10 a torso was found Gray was taken into custody and transported to USA Medi- Perkins said the boy and two of his sisters were released by beneath Weeks Creek Bridge, noting the body parts likely cal Center for minor injuries, she said. DHS to a family member. belonged to the same person. Winston, who has been with MPD for approximately three According to records from the Mobile County Sheriff’s Of- Search crews late into the evening of Nov. 10 recovered years, was not injured in the altercation, according to Rains. fice, Bellard Sr. was charged with willful abuse of a child and other body parts, including a head, according to the BCSO. Authorities said Internal Affairs and MPD’s Homicide Unit released on bail. Booking records show Bellard Sr. is sched- Authorities said the victim was a white male over the age are conducting an investigation into the officer-involved shoot- uled to appear in court Nov. 19. of 60, with a pacemaker and a unique mole on the right side of ing. Additional charges are pending, Perkins said. his face. Investigators are asking anyone who has any information to Body found near I-65’s Dauphin Street exit Daphne student arrested for electronic solicita- contact the BCSO. Mobile police have confirmed the body of a female was tion of a child discovered near the Dauphin Street overpass on I-65 during the Daphne High School Man shot by MPD officer faces multiple charges early morning hours of Nov. 10. student Alphonse Malone, Jail records show the According to MPD spokesman officer Terence Perkins, the Jr., 18, was arrested and man who was shot by death is being investigated as a suicide and there is no evidence charged Nov. 6 for elec- Mobile police after pointing of criminal activity or foul play. tronic solicitation of a child a stolen gun at an officer MPD did not release the female’s identity. after a medical call led last week was booked into police to investigate, linking Mobile County Metro Jail Mobile man charged him to the case. Nov. 8. with child abuse After a school resource Terrance Gray, 30, was Mobile police Nov. 8 officer contacted Malone, arrested and charged with arrested the parent of a run- evidence revealed he was third degree receiving sto- away teen for child abuse. texting a female under the len property, failure to obey, According to officials, age of 15 and attempted menacing and attempting Marcus Bellard Sr. was to exchange narcotics for to elude police. He was arrested after his 14-year- sexual favors, according to released on bond. old son told officers he ran Malone, Jr. investigators. According to MPD away from home because While it has not been Gray officials, officers with his father was physically determined if any narcotics or sexual favors for narcotics were the Mobile County Street abusing him. exchanged, police said there was enough evidence discovered Enforcement Narcotics Team The boy was reported as on Malone’s cell phone and computer to support the charge. were in Prichard near the area of First and Rich avenues at a runaway at approximately The investigation is ongoing. approximately 11:20 a.m. Nov. 4 when officers attempted to Bellard, Sr. 6 a.m. Nov. 7 from the 1300 approach Gray and another man. The area is allegedly a known 4 | LAGNIAPPE | November 13, 2014 - November 19, 2014 LAGNIAPPE | November 13, 2014 - November 19, 2014 | 5 BAY BRIEFS BB Mayor’s accident scattered, covered, smothered in controversy BY JASON JOHNSON/REPORTER | [email protected] ayou la Batre Mayor Brett Dungan appears to be at the center of a recent complaint filed with the Alabama Ethics Commission — one that accuses Dungan of asking city personnel to fix damages caused by his Bpersonal vehicle at the local Waffle House. Dungan, who is legally handicapped, doesn’t deny striking a handicapped sign at the local business. However, he main- tains that he didn’t ask anyone employed by the city to make the repairs to the sign. “I struck a pole when parking at the Waffle House, and it was negligible,” Dungan said. “It was brought to my attention that there were city workers sent to make the repairs, but they were not dispatched by me and the city did not authorize them to do so.” Dungan said the repair was authorized by City Clerk Jaime Abastoflor, who had discussed the issue with Jimmy Warren, head of the Bayou la Batre street department. Several weeks after the incident occurred, two street department employees were dispatched and made the repairs. Abastoflor has since Photo/Submitted reimbursed the city for the cost of labor to A citizen noticed Bayou la Batre municipal employees repairing a repair the sign, which handicap sign on private property and later filed an ethics complaint according to Dungan was less than $30.

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