OPERATION NUTCRACKER
Major 2 day online undercover operation results in 7 arrests for Human Trafficking in Dale and Houston Counties.
Led by Dale County Sheriff’s Office and assisted by ALEA, FBI, Enterprise PD, Dothan PD, Ozark Police Department, Coffee County Sheriff’s Office along with the Alabama Fusion Center.
All are in Dale County Jail and Houston County Jail, under no bonds.
Alll must have an Ananias hearing next week
DOTHAN: 08:56 AM Dothan 911 dispatched Dothan Police, Dothan Fire Engine Company 4 ( Southside ), Dothan Police and Pilcher Ambulance to a motor vehicle accident on Highway 231 South and Saunders Road.
Dothan Fire Engine Company 4 wsa at Hodgesville Road and Saunders Road when dispatched, just coming off a medical emergency.
On arrival Dothan Engine 4 reported minor to moderate injuries. It appear a vehicle struck a Jeep from behind shooting tje Jeep through the grass at Rack City.
Pilcher Ambulance transported one patient, noon emrgency, to a Dothan hospital.
Dothan Police are in charge of the accident investigation.
DOTHAN: 09:02 AM Dothan 911 dispatched Dothan Fire Engine Company, Pilcher Ambulance and Dothan Police to the 3600 block of Oak Ridge Lane in Dothan to reports of a pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle.
The husband called 911 reporting his wife had been run over by a vehicle and then disconnected.
Dothan Fire, Dothan Police and Pilcher Ambulance are on the scene.
UPDATED @ 09:27 AM
09:25 AM Dothan Fire Medic 3 ( Whatley Drive ) and Pilcher Ambulance have left the scene, trauma alert, emrgency transport to Southeast Health.
UPDATED @ 12:34 PM
The injuries are not reported to be life threatening. Transport trauma alert is a lot of time based on mechanism of injury.
COLUMBIA – DOTHAN: For three days, at Cottonwood Road and Ross Clark Circle in Dothan, you have passed and seen smoke from BBQ smokers.
Parents and some students have been working day and night raising money for the Houston County High School Marching Band. Houston County High School is in Columbia.
They have worked cooking and winding down this morning.
THANK YOU to the band teachers, parents and students working to help the band. Your hard work is noticed.
DOTHAN: 5:01 PM Dothan 911 dispatched a motor vehicle accident with critical injuries, one vehicle a Jeep overturned.
The location was Webb Road and Ross Clark Circle.
Dothan FIre Engine Company 5 ( Eastside ), Truck 1 ( Central ), two Pilcher Ambulance and Battalion Chief were dispatched.
On arrival the patient were ambulatory and injury code was donwgraded from critical. One Pilcher Ambulance was cancelled. The primary Pilcher Ambulance was returned to service and no one was transported.
The Jepp has a Georgia license plate. Their vehicle is totaled. Brought up before the need for a ministry from churches to people in accident like this from out of state, what do they do? After 5 PM and probably no car rental places. But to no avail no Christian ministry ever stepped up to be on call and minister to those traveling through Dothan.
Dothan Police in charge of accident investigation.
DOTHAN: Today leaders of the Dothan area, family, friends, staff and co-workers, former Dothan Fire Chief’s, former Dothan City Managers, Mayors and Commissioners came together to celebrate Dothan Fire Chief Larry Williams service to the citizens in fire and EMS.
Serving since 1982, beginning with Pilcher Ambulance Service, Eufaula and Ozark Fire Departments before coming to Dothan, Larry Williams has worked his way up the ladder to serve 19 years as Dothan Fire Chief.
Larry Williams retirement is not effective until midnight on December 31, 2025, at which time he will pass the torch to now Deputy Fire Chief David Hasty.