A Cherokee County man was arrested on a long list of charges over the weekend.
According to information posted on the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office website – a 53 year old Cedar Bluff resident, Danny Joe Elders, was arrested late Sunday afternoon, and charged with Menacing, and Resisting Arrest, with the Unlawful Possession of Controlled Substance, Unlawful Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and Fleeing/Attempting to Elude, in addition to Promoting Prison Contraband 2nd Degree.
Elders was booked in the Cherokee County Detention Center shortly after 5:00 pm, where he remains awaiting setting of bond.
The investigation into thefts from the Floyd County Board of Education began with a report of stolen muck boots.
But more than a year later, it’s a multi-million dollar investigation with police seizing hundreds of thousands of dollars in property and items purchased from money stolen for the school system.
Two storage buildings full of stolen items that included vehicles, furniture, several tractors, a safe and other assorted items will be auctioned off in the future.
Another storage facility is full of other items purchased with proceeds of the funds allegedly stolen from the school system. Derry Richardson, the former maintenance director at Floyd County Schools, who has been at the center of the investigation, is still allowed to live at his residence in Chattooga County but the residence and its contents have been seized.
Richardson was the maintenance director at the Floyd County Board of Education for about ten years. But the thefts from the school system may have started when Richardson was working for a vendor.
Richardson and nine others which included his wife, father, brother and two former employees of the Floyd County Board of Education are out of jail on bond on theft and racketeering charges. More arrests are expected.
Kim Jarret – WRGA
A motorcyclist was transported to Floyd Medical Center Wednesday afternoon after an accident in Alabama involving a deer.
According to reports, the man was traveling on Highway 68 in Gaylesville near County Road 92 when his motorcycle collided with the deer.
The deer was killed and the impact dislocated the man’s shoulder.
The wreck occurred just before 2 p.m. Wednesday and remains under investigation by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
A motorcyclist involved in a weekend accident in Cherokee County, Alabama has died.
Cherokee County Coroner Jeremy Deaton confirmed that 53-year old Robert Fields of Cedar Bluff succumbed to injuries sustained in the crash Wednesday morning.
The accident occurred Saturday night at around 7:42pm on County Road 144.
Fields was taken from the scene by Cherokee EMS to a landing zone at the football field at Cedar Bluff School – and from there he was air-lifted to Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga.
The cause of the wreck remains under investigation by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.