Woman arrested on contributing to delinquency charges

Repairing a political sign came in handy Saturday for Coffee County Sheriff Dave Sutton, but not for a Brantley woman and four juveniles.
Sutton was replacing a political sign Saturday near the entrance of Wal-Mart in Enterprise when he noticed a vehicle in the parking lot that looked suspicious.
Four juveniles were sitting in the vehicle as if they were waiting for “someone or something,” Sutton said.
“I had this feeling that something was about to happen. It just didn’t feel right,” he said.
Sutton and Deputy Deke Skinner waited and saw another vehicle approach the minors’ car.
“The minors started taking out suitcases and placing them in the trunk of the other vehicle and a woman then opened her truck and the juveniles began taking out cases of beer, vodka and whiskey and placing them in their vehicle,” Sutton said.
Angela Graham Mancil, 38, of Morgan Mill Road, Brantley, a nurse at Elba Nursing Home, was arrested and charged with four counts of contributing to delinquency of a minor.
“There were four minors involved and we notified the Enterprise Police Department and a supervisor who took control,” he said. “The juveniles were released to their parents.”
In other arrests, Elba police charged Freddie Caldwell Jr., 43, of Jackson Street, Elba, Saturday around 3:34 a.m. with a felony second-degree assault. Caldwell was found with a knife that he allegedly used to attack another attacked a person.
John Charles Stives, 46, of County Road 651, Chancellor, was arrested and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Two 19-year-olds from Georgia were arrested by Kinston police Thursday on Highway 52. Kinston police reported that Whitney Celeste Motsinger, 19, of Woodstock, Ga., and Madison Suzanne Rogers, 19, of Canton, Ga., were arrested and charged with minors in possession of alcohol.
Charles Raymond Holmes, 21, of Highway 27, Chancellor, was arrested by Enterprise police on a felony possession of a controlled substance charge and possession of drug paraphernalia charge. Holmes remains in jail on hold for Houston County.
Tom Wesley Bobo, 37, of Hickman Avenue, Elba, was arrested and charged with felony possession of controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Michael Townsend, 29, of South Watson Street, Enterprise, was arrested by Enterprise police on a charge of possession of a controlled substance. Townsend was out of jail on probation. Patrick R. Dozier, 25, of the same residence, was charged with felony possession of marijuana.
Mejic DeWayne Collins, 28, of Nann Street, Enterprise, was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree possession of marijuana and possession of a controlled substance.
Elba police arrested Lisa Rena Hill, 21, of Beaver Dam Street, Elba, on Thursday on a third-degree assault charge.

Change made for 2010 Be Ready Camp, still time to apply
By Michelle Mann
Ledger Staff Writer
There is a change this year to the camp for kids that Coffee County Emergency Management Director John Tallas calls “an investment in our future.”
Tallas said Monday that due to a scheduling conflict, Be Ready Camp will be held two weeks in September rather than three.
“Each week of camp will consist of 90 students, which will be the largest amount of campers that the camp has had to date.” For South Alabama students, the camp runs Sept. 14-18.
The week-long program for sixth graders promotes citizen preparedness and participation using multiple approaches to learning, Tallas said. The sixth graders spend time learning roles and responsibilities of first responders in emergency situations. “At the end of the camp, they put those skills to the test in a mock disaster.”
There is no charge for camp participants, Tallas said. Transportation to and from the five-day residential camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville is the camper’s only responsibility.
“Students ultimately teach what they learned to their family, friends and community,” said Tallas. “We know that the best way to get the disaster preparedness message to the families is to teach the kids.”
Coffee County has not had great participation in past camps and Tallas hopes publicity will help draw a greater response.
To participate in the Be Ready Program, sixth graders statewide are invited to submit a 300- to 500-word essay, a 30-second to one minute video or a poster no larger than 11 inches by 17 inches by May 1.
The entries should answer the question “What does being part of a safe community mean to me?”
Applicants should also include a letter from a parent or guardian allowing the student to be eligible to attend the Be Ready Camp.
The camp’s curriculum includes emergency preparedness, introduction to survival and first aid, developing an emergency kit, creating a family disaster plan, water survival, light search and rescue, disaster psychology, triage, career exploration and terrorism awareness, said Tallas.
Be Ready Camps are sponsored by multi-agency coordination at the local, state and national level, including the Governor’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, the Alabama Department of Homeland Security, the Alabama Emergency Management Agency partnered with the U.S. Space and Rocket Center and the Madison County Emergency Management Agency.
For more information and to download registration forms, visit www.bereadycamp.org.