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2 | LAGNIAPPE | June 11, 2015 - June 17, 2015 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• LAGNIAPPE WEEKLY JUNE 11, 2015 – June 17, 2015 | www.lagniappemobile.com Ashley Trice BAY BRIEFS Co-publisher/Editor Something stinks in Fairhope as a [email protected] popular beach has run afoul of the Rob Holbert city’s tidy sensibilities. Co-publisher/Managing Editor 5 [email protected] COMMENTARY Steve Hall Marketing/Sales Director Although a jury failed to convict [email protected] License Commissioner Kim Hastie of all Gabriel Tynes serious charges against her, the trial Assistant Managing Editor 12 did a lot of good for the community. [email protected] Dale Liesch BUSINESS Reporter Local loan counselors have found [email protected] themselves at odds with the Federal Jason Johnson Trade Commission. Reporter 16 [email protected] Eric Mann Reporter CUISINE [email protected] At the height of Kevin Lee CONTENTS watermelon season, Associate Editor/Arts Editor a guide to finding the [email protected] ripest fruit and a recipe Andy MacDonald Cuisine Editor for a refreshing dip or [email protected] garnish. Stephen Centanni Music Editor [email protected] J. Mark Bryant Sports Writer 18 [email protected] 18 Stephanie Poe Copy Editor COVER The opening of the Daniel Anderson Chief Photographer area’s first Costco and [email protected] other outlets at the new Laura Rasmussen McGowin Park is the latest Art Director development in a retail www.laurarasmussen.com renaissance in Mobile and Brooke Mathis Baldwin counties. 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June 11, 2015 - June 17, 2015| LAGNIAPPE | 3 POLIC E DISPATCH Man arrested for attempted rape on Cone Street BY JASON JOHNSON/REPORTER | [email protected] A Mobile man was property, possession of as Dominic Gerard Turner Sr. taken into custody last marijuana and fishing Due to circumstances of the investigation, McMillian was week for attempted without a saltwater charged with driving under the influence, manslaughter and rape, along with license. three counts of third-degree assault. several other lesser According to jail records, McMillan has two DUI charges on charges. Man’s third DUI his record already and a separate charge for leaving the scene of The incident began blamed for I-10 an accident. June 2, when police traffic fatality say a 55-year-old One of three Faith Academy vandals appre- female reported an At around 8:30 p.m. hended attempted sexual on Saturday, June 6, assault near the 2400 police responded to a Security camera footage from June 4 shows three younger block of Cone Street. three-vehicle crash that females breaking into Faith Academy on Tanner Williams road According to officers, left one person dead at around midnight, and authorities say once they were inside the victim stated Leon Rhoden is accused of an and several injured. Willie McMillian arrested in they spray painted the walls. Leon Rhoden — with Initial reports show On Monday, police apprehended at least one of the suspects, whom she is familiar attempted rape on Cone the accident took place I-10 accident that led to 22-year-old Brittany Michelle Broadhead. She was charged with — attempted to rape Street. on I-10 East between death and injuries. third degree burglary, which is the only arrest on her record in her. Rangeline and Riviere Mobile County. As officers arrived Du Chien roads. The arrest was made after a still frame of the security foot- at the location, Rho- Authorities say a preliminary investigation revealed traffic age was released to the public through local media. den made an effort to flee the scene on foot, but was taken into was slowing for an unrelated accident when a Chevrolet Impala As of Tuesday, she was still being held at the Mobile County custody a block away. driven by 51-year-old Willie McMillian struck the rear of a Metro Jail, but authorities are still searching for her two ac- While under custody on location, Rhoden was able to briefly GMC Yukon carrying three passengers. The Yukon was pro- complices. escape, but was ultimately recaptured and transported to the pelled forward into a Nissan Sentra. Anyone with information is asked to call the Mobile Police Mobile Metro Jail where he remained as of press time. Several injuries were reported and four people were taken Department at 208-7211 or 208-7000. After the incident, Rhoden was charged with attempted to local hospitals. However, a male passenger in the Sentra was rape, escape, failure to obey a law enforcement officer, theft of pronounced dead on the scene. The victim was later identified 4 | LAGNIAPPE | June 11, 2015 - June 17, 2015 BAYBRIEFS | FAIRHOPE BB Beach feces video goes viral, city blames geese BY ERIC MANN/REPORTER | [email protected] he creator of a locally viral video showing what appears leaked, they’ve all been inspected. Our sewer treatment plant has to be human feces scattered in the wrack line of a popular had no spills.” Fairhope beach said he did not intend to cause controversy, Burrell said a sample of the fecal matter has been sent to a but rather create awareness of an apparent public health laboratory and the city hopes to have results in a few days. He Tissue at a frequented Eastern Shore coastline. said if the waste originated from the city’s sewage treatment plant Elliott Gordon visited the public beach between the Orange about a mile away, there would have been paper, plastic and other Street pier and the American Legion early June 6, the night after a items present, too. jubilee. Hoping for signs of fish, what he found was much different. “It doesn’t have the physical characteristics of human waste,” Gordon’s video, shared on his personal Facebook page the he said. “There is no paper, no plastic, which would be there if same day, showed what appeared to be large amounts of fecal something had been dumped from a ship or some other waste matter on the shoreline for what he said was “a few hundred spill. It just doesn’t have that signature. yards.” Gordon initially believed it was human feces and posted “What we do know is there are a lot of geese in the area,” the video on Facebook to let the community know about a public he continued. “I was there today and they were swimming right health hazard. Within two days, it had been viewed nearly 40,000 offshore of the beach. We also know that we had a jubilee there times and shared by nearly 1,000 people. Thursday and Friday night. And one could assume maybe some “My biggest concern was that people fish there, and people geese had been down there feeding on the carcasses of marine life bring their kids to play down there, and there was what appeared and other organic material, which may have led to more poop on to be raw sewage on the beach,” Gordon said. the beach.” Gordon said he and a handful of other local business owners Burrell said the feces were removed by a crew from the Public routinely patrol the Fairhope beach for trash, but he was not going Works department.