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2 | LAGNIAPPE | August 18, 2016 - August 24, 2016 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• LAGNIAPPE WEEKLY SEPTEMBER 1, 2016 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 | www.lagniappemobile.com ASHLEY TRICE BAY BRIEFS Co-publisher/Editor The felony murder trial of Hiawatha Robinson, [email protected] accused of killing his 8-year-old daughter, began ROB HOLBERT Co-publisher/Managing Editor 5 last week. [email protected] STEVE HALL COMMENTARY Marketing/Sales Director The Mobile County Commission is still fighting [email protected] Ashley Rich’s lawsuit, despite Supreme Court GABRIEL TYNES rulings. Assistant Managing Editor 12 [email protected] BUSINESS DALE LIESCH Reporter Citronelle High School students begin the new [email protected] year at a new facility built by White-Spunner JASON JOHNSON Construction. 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For Lagniappe home delivery visit www.lagniappemobile.com/lagniappehd 42 September 1, 2016 - September 7, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 3 POLICE DISPATCH Teenager struck by drunk driver in Mobile Sept. 19. identity. A teenager remains in the hospital after being struck by a drunk Saraland police make multiple drug arrests An investigation revealed Campbell was attempting to avoid driver on Staples Road in Mobile last week. Police in Saraland kept busy last week, making multiple arrest for two active felony warrants issued by the Mobile The accident occurred the evening of Thursday, Aug. 26, drugs arrests and capturing a man wanted by the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office for probation violation. According to when officers from the Mobile Police Department responded County Sheriff’s Department. jail records, Campbell was on probation for a 2013 arrest on and arrested and charged 61-year-old Sandra Wetzel with driv- On Wednesday, Aug. 24, Saraland police made two separate multiple burglary charges. ing under the influence of alcohol. arrests and seizing methamphetamine, illegal prescription drugs Last Friday, the SPD’s narcotics unit joined the MCSO in According to Metro Jail records, Wetzel has no previous and drug paraphernalia. Arrested were Katherine Louise Buhl, the execution of a search warrant in Citronelle. There, officers lo- criminal charges in Mobile County. a 53-year-old resident of Altha, Florida, and Perry Joe Griffin, cated ICE methamphetamine, prescription pills, marijuana, drug The victim has been identified as 18-year-old Bryce Man- 49, of Saraland. paraphernalia and an undisclosed amount of U.S. currency. ning, who is a recent graduate of Alma Bryant High School. After stopping Buhl, police located methamphetamine As a result of the search, Jason Tyler Reed, 22, of Citronelle, In an interview with NBC 15, Manning’s mother said her son and prescription drugs in her vehicle, and though they were was arrested and charged with possession with intent to dis- sustained two broken legs and a severe concussion and is being separate incidents, the circumstances around Griffin’s arrest tribute methamphetamine, unlawful possession of a controlled treated in intensive care. were similar. Stopped by police, a search of Griffin’s vehicle substance, first-degree possession of marijuana and possession However, some on social media have criticized authorities revealed him to be in possession of prescription drugs. of drug paraphernalia. because Wetzel was allowed to bond out of jail only five hours The following day, patrol officers in Saraland arrested and Reed was booked into the Mobile Metro Jail the same after being arrested. According to state court records, Wetzel charged Trent Devonte Campbell, 29, for obstructing justice day, and according to records; the arrest is his first in Mobile will not have an initial appearance in municipal court until after the Prichard resident attempted to give officers a false County. Compiled by Jason Johnson GOING POSTAL There is a ready source of trained, underpaid officers available from the Don your foil hats Police jurisdiction mixtape Shame on the Lagniappe for publishing Editor: Mobile Police Department. (“Spirits in the Material World”) a letter from Tom Harris of the International (Music selection: “Every Breath You Take”) I first thought a wall It’s probably a good thing I am not a Mobile County Commissioner Climate Science Coalition. Some opinions would be appropriate. A passport would be required to pass between (let’s accept as fact that I could be elected, regardless if it’s true). My deserve to have the opposition’s response Mobile and the hitherlands of WeMo. Some approaches to the airport first move would be to get a legal injunction against the city for the po- published. Climate change is not one of them. would be closed to Mobile residents as those approaches would require lice jurisdiction decrease until sufficient time is available for the county Can we expect letters from the Flat Earth traveling through the dreaded WeMo. I realized that would not be the to provide these services. Society to begin showing up in your paper? most positive approach. More on a solution later. My second move would be to sue the city for reversal of the illegal How about opinions from 9/11 Truthers? You cannot possibly believe that four months is enough time to gerrymandering of city limits by the Jones administration. This move Mobile, being a coastal city, is at great risk (“Time Is On My Side”): identify land for a fire station, bid the fire has taken money from the county. Those funds are needed now that from changes to our climate and giving station design, approve the fire station design, bid the fire station design Mobile is reneging on the police and fire protection deal. (“Money for credence to what Tom Harris and his energy and build the fire station. Nothing”) company-backed “coalition” has to say does a You also have to obtain all needed fire trucks and equipment. I have I’m truly disappointed in Mayor Stimpson, we had been big fans. great disservice to the community which you no clue what the lead time is for fire trucks as they are all custom made. (“Broken Hearted”) espouse to represent. You want to leave folks in WeMo with no home fire protection? (“Bring It On Home To Me”) W.P. “Tink” Wilkinson, Adam McAnally, Hiring additional sheriff’s deputies would seem much less difficult. Mobile Mobile 4 | LAGNIAPPE | September 1, 2016 - September 7, 2016 BAYBRIEF | COURTS Circumstantial evidence looms large HIAWATHA ROBINSON’S WHEREABOUTS, DEMEANOR QUESTIONED IN MURDER BY JASON JOHNSON here are two competing narratives in the felony find our daughter,’” Yosha added. murder trial of Hiawatha Robinson Jr. — one of Robinson’s defense attorney, Jeff Deen, claims his Photo | Daniel Anderson/Lagniappe a father whose daughter fell victim to a “horrific client was upset his daughter had been allowed to wander death” at the hands of an unknown perpetrator in around unsupervised, but no matter the reason, testimony Ta dangerous neighborhood, and the other of a man who revealed Robinson’s behavior that day temporarily landed raped and murdered his own child and left her body in a him in the back of a Prichard police cruiser in an attempt pile of trash. to calm him down. Since Robinson’s arrest in 2014, prosecutors have In cross examination, though, Deen moved to impeach maintained that “while engaging in sodomy in the first Yosha Populus’ testimony based on a previous federal degree, Hiawatha Robinson Jr.