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For Lagniappe home delivery visit 62 www.lagniappemobile.com/lagniappehd June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 3 POLICEDISPATCH Man assaults police officer in Wal-Mart skirmish Compiled by Jason Johnson It’s unclear if Singleton discharged his weapon during the robbery or at another time, but initial reports from A Mobile man remains in jail who police say struck police did not list the robbery as a shooting. an officer in the face after causing a disturbance at the According to Mobile County Metro Jail Records, Tillman’s Corner Wal-Mart over Memorial Day week- Singleton has recorded several previous charges in the end. area for drug-related issues and others for domestic According to police, 26-year-old Jacob Teofilo was violence. intoxicated when he arrived at the store on Rangeline Road in the late hours of May 27. Police arrest nine for prostitution After being asked to leave by a manager, Teofilo Mobile police made several arrests during a May 25 refused and police were eventually dispatched to the prostitution operation focusing on the Campground, Bot- location. As officers from the Mobile Police Department toms and Maysville neighborhoods. arrived on scene, Teofilo is said to have struck a female Several locations were searched after police say they officer in the face while being taken into custody. received complaints of prostitution activity along Martin Though the officer only sustained minor injuries, Teo- Luther King Jr. Avenue and Ann Street in midtown filo has since been charged with second-degree assault. Mobile. According to Mobile County Metro Jail records, As a result of the operation, two men and seven Teofilo has a laundry list of previous charges in the area women were arrested on 10 misdemeanor charges. dating back to his 18th birthday — including multiple Some of those arrested had previous charges for charges related to theft and drug possession. soliciting prostitution Mobile County, according to jail records. Local man charged after stealing cash, According to police, Jessica Mose, Siobhan Thomp- beer son, Janice Henderson, Alesia Robinson, Melissa Trotter, On May 26, Mobile police say a man entered a gas Anita Young,Tremaine Barron and Timothy Patt were station on Airport Boulevard, pulled a handgun on the charged with soliciting prostitution during the opera- cashier and then fled on foot with money and beer in tow. tions. Henderson also faced an additional charge from According to a police report, the incident occurred at unrelated misdemeanor warrant. the Circle K located at 6900 Airport Blvd., where a ca- Last week’s arrests mark the second prostitution shier said a male subject used a semi-automatic handgun operation the Mobile Police Department has undertaken to rob the store before fleeing westward on foot. in the last three months. On Tuesday, May 31, police identified that man as On March 16, narcotics and vice officers with the 31-year-old Solomon Singleton, who has since been MPD arrested 13 individuals at several hotels in the charged with two counts of first degree robbery, public Beltline area in an operation the focused on prostitution Photos/MCSO intoxication, disorderly conduct and discharging a fire- activities being organized through the classified-style arm within the city limits. website backpage.com. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: JACOB TEOFILO, SOLOMON SINGLETON, JESSICA MOSE AND TIMOTHY PATT. 4 | LAGNIAPPE | June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 June 2, 2016 - June 8, 2016 | LAGNIAPPE | 5 BAYBRIEF | CRIME Carlos Kennedy returns to court for new indecent exposure charge BY JASON JOHNSON/REPORTER | [email protected] wice-convicted murderer Carlos E. when he’s already been convicted twice. Kennedy was in court again last week “He has been sentenced to death, and he to face charges of indecent exposure has been sentenced to life without parole. after showing his genitals to a female Neither of those sentences can be efficiently Tcorrections officer at Mobile Metro Jail earlier or effectively carried out in Mobile County this month. Metro Jail,” Miller said. “He needs to serve Kennedy, who was convicted in 2013 for his time as reprimanded in a state peniten- killing Zoa White in her Spring Hill Avenue tiary. My family should not have to pass the home, successfully appealed to have his death jail every time we go through the tunnel and sentence overturned last year. In April, he know he is there.” represented himself in a retrial based on the According to Myles, the delay in transfer- same charges and evidence. ring Kennedy does cost local dollars, but she Despite calling no witnesses, presenting no said it’s the responsibility of the Alabama evidence and only speaking to answer direct Department of Corrections to move him to a questions, Kennedy dodged the death penalty state facility. in the retrial. While the second group of jurors “There are all kinds of reasons the state arrived at the same conclusion as those in has — either they don’t have room for him 2013 — that Kennedy raped and beat White or they’re waiting to group him with other to death with a claw hammer after breaking people they need to transport,” Myles said. into her home — eight of them didn’t feel he “We’re just sort of stuck with their timeline.” deserved to die for it. Bob Horton, a public information officer As a result, on May 5 Kennedy was sen- with the Department of Corrections, told tenced to life in prison without the possibility Lagniappe “a person sentenced to state prison of parole. is required to be transferred from a county jail However, the recent charges against Ken- within 30 days.” nedy suggest he exposed himself to a woman “ADOC received the court transcripts for tasked with guarding him only days after he Kennedy’s sentence on May 10,” Horton received the reduced sentence. wrote Lagniappe. “He will be transferred According to Lori Myles, a spokesperson from the Mobile County Jail to the Alabama with the Mobile County Sheriff’s