By Guy Busby
FAIRHOPE – Fairhope High School band director Anthony Wayne Fillingim was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 27, on four felony charges of possession of obscene matter, investigators with the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.
Fillingim, 43, was charged after deputies searched his Daphne home. A warrant had been issued after an investigation of reports determined that that Fillingim had downloaded sexually explicit images of someone younger than 17, a Sheriff’s Office statement said.
Investigators searching his home found at least one electronic device that was directly related to the transfer of the unlawful images. They also seized other devices that are being checked, the statement said.
Posted Alexis Biron
BCSO release
BAY MINETTE, Alabama A second suspect has been arrested that investigators say was involved in trying to sneak drugs to a Baldwin County Corrections Center inmate at the courthouse in Bay Minette.
According to a release issued Wednesday, Jan. 20 by the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Department, 27-year-old Alexis Biron of Brewton was arrested in Oceans Springs, Mississippi, after she was spotted driving a vehicle, authorities say, was stolen out of Foley.
Biron, charged with receiving stolen property, is being held in the Jackson County (Mississippi) Detention Center and will be extradited back to Alabama to face charges involving the attempt to introduce narcotics into the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Corrections Center on Jan. 6, according to the release.
Fairhope Police Report
FAIRHOPE – A Fairhope man was arrested Wednesday, Jan. 13, on felony charges as a result of an on-going child sexual assault investigation by the Fairhope Police Department.
John Ryan Arnold, 39, is charged with enticing a child for immoral purposes and domestic violence – strangulation or suffocation, according to Fairhope police. Both are felony charges and additional charges are also pending, the statement said.
The incidents are alleged to have taken place over an extended period of time and were reported to Fairhope Police in October 2020.
Arnold was transferred to the Baldwin County Corrections Center in Bay Minette, where he was being held on $17,500 bond on Thursday.
By Guy Busby
SPANISH FORT – The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office has changed a Mobile man with arson in connection with two fires set in the Malbis community on Friday, Dec. 18.
Phillip Mack, 33, was being held without bond in the Baldwin County Corrections Center on Friday on charges of first-degree arson and second-degree arson, according to jail records.
The arrest came after a house fire was reported in Malbis on Thursday, according to Sheriff’s Office reports. Deputies determined that the fire was set on purpose, damaging a home and vehicle at the site.
While the investigation was going on, the Sheriff’s Office received another report of a vehicle fire at the freestanding emergency room the freestanding Emergency Room in Malbis. That vehicle sustained major damage.