Election Day is less than a week away, and now one local police organization has made a decision to support a candidate in one of the biggest races in the Fountain City.
Several Columbus-area residents involved in a multi-state Sam’s Club theft ring amounting to $900,567 in loss to the company were sentenced to federal prison for their crimes.
As crime continues rising across the nation, including in Columbus and East Alabama, one organization is trying to work with a local city to provide solutions as we get closer to summer.
The Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office Drug, Gang, and Fugitive Task Force, with the assistance of the DEA, conducted a search warrant leading to seven arrests and a seizure of guns, drugs and money.
On April 26, a federal judge sentenced a Eufaula man to three years and eight months in prison for mail theft, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.