Tag: Law Enforcement

CULLMAN, Ala. – The Cullman Police Department has a new assistant chief.   Patrol Officer Brandon Patterson was appointed to the assistant chief position this week...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's (ALEA) Driver License Offices across the state will be closed Monday, June 20, in observance of...

CULLMAN, Ala. - The Cullman County Sheriff’s Office investigators are still actively following up on leads in the search for Alana Jean Aldridge. Ms. Aldridge,...

CULLMAN, Ala. - Cullman Assistant Police Chief Craig Montgomery spent his first day in retirement enjoying some front porch sitting and late morning coffee...

CULLMAN COUNTY, Ala. - The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Marine Patrol Division continues to assist multiple rescue efforts in the search and recovery...

HANCEVILLE, Ala. - According to the Hanceville Police Department, around 12:15 a.m. on Tuesday, a motorcycle passed a sitting patrol vehicle at excess speeds...

CULLMAN, Ala. - The Cullman County Sheriff’s Office and Cullman Police Department utilize a computer program that compiles, stores and shares data.  According to the...

The Cullman Police Department shared that there was an incident on the train tracks next to Depot Park around noon today.  A 2009 Red Saturn...

CULLMAN, Ala. – With an average of seven patrols per shift, not including two township deputies and a Lieutenant, the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office...

CULLMAN, Ala. – The Cullman City Council on Monday evening voted to give the Cullman Police Department’s Field Training Officers a 75 cent per...

CULLMAN, Ala. - The Cullman Police Department Field Training Program consists of eight officers who have received advanced training to provide experience, guidance and...

CULLMAN, Ala. - For the last week there’s been talk regarding current Cullman Police Department’s Chief Kenny Culpepper’s retirement, supposedly slated for Dec. 31,...

CULLMAN, Ala. - The Cullman Police Department and Cullman County Sheriff’s Office both agree this holiday season was a quieter one for crime and...

CULLMAN, Ala. - The Cullman Police Department and Cullman County Sheriff’s Office shares the importance of security at home and offers safety tips while...

CULLMAN, Ala. - The Cullman County Sheriff’s Office on Friday evening held its annual Sheriff’s Youth Leadership Academy graduation at the Sheriff’s Office training...

CULLMAN, Ala. - Following a late evening shooting in the area of Golf Course Road on Cullman’s south side, Michael Allen Oliver, 43, of...

CULLMAN, Ala. - Recently-passed Alabama House Bill 308 (HB308), the Alabama Uniform Concealed Carry Permit Act, makes changes to the way pistol permits are...

CULLMAN, Ala. - On Monday evening, the Cullman City Council formally approved a reserve police force for the Cullman Police Department (CPD), noting in...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -  As many as 450 local law enforcement agencies across Alabama could soon receive additional aid to help prevent and reduce the...

CULLMAN, Ala. - Jim and Beverly Burke are well-known fixtures in the Cullman community. Cullman County has at least a few (!) gun owners,...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry led an 11-state Attorney General letter to Congressional leadership in...

CULLMAN, Ala. - Life has recently become far more difficult for law enforcement officers across the country, as protest groups call for police agencies...

UNITED STATES - The riots that have followed many peaceful protests across the country over the last several days have resulted in millions of...

CULLMAN, Ala. - With a sharp rise in domestic violence calls and a quarantine order that needs to be enforced, The Tribune reached out...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - On Thursday, the Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill that would add law enforcement officers to the list of groups...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Alabama Attorney Gen. Steve Marshall, joined by other leaders in state and local law enforcement, addressed the press Wednesday in Montgomery...

CULLMAN, Ala. - The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) on Friday announced it has suspended search efforts to locate Kelsey Starling, missing on Smith...

Updated 7-1-19 at 4:40 p.m. CULLMAN, Ala. – On Monday, a 15-year-old Guatemalan roofing worker fell to his death from the roof of Cullman Casting...

CPD officers practice photographing blood stains. (W.C. Mann for The Tribune) CULLMAN - The classroom and training house at the Cullman Police Department (CPD) have...

SSGT President Johnny Lee Smith (black shirt) talks about common physical confrontations encountered by law enforcement officers. / W.C. Mann CULLMAN - From Wednesday through...

Crime Stoppers Board Member Frank Barefield, left, and Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry at a press conference announcing the partnership between the sheriff's office...

Cullman City Police Chief Kenny Culpepper, center, at an event this February/Tribune file photo There are times we get to go into situations where the...

Last year's Sheriff's Youth Leadership Academy class CULLMAN - Sheriff Matt Gentry and his staff at the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) have a vision...

Alabama State Trooper Rodney Wallace, Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry and Cullman County Sheriff's Sgt. Daniel Cummings CULLMAN - Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry today...

CULLMAN - Cullman County residents are invited to join Sheriff Matt Gentry and deputies from the Cullman County Sheriff's Office during the month of...

GOOD HOPE - Cullman County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) Sgt. Daniel Cummings was treated and released from Cullman Regional today, following a scary incident in...

K-9 Deputy AJ and K-9 Lt. Joey Cone CULLMAN - A Cullman County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) K-9 deputy today tracked down a suspect who was...

CULLMAN - Pretty weather and warm temperatures are back in the forecast and the Cullman County Inmate Trash Detail, being supervised by a Cullman...

Jordan Lee Wilson was last seen by family and friends on May 15, 2016. BREMEN - Saturday morning, a group of approximately 40-45 people will...

CULLMAN - The Cullman County Sheriff's Office would like to make the citizens of Cullman County aware of the Nixle Alert System. You can sign...

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange looks on as Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry addresses the Fall 2016 graduating class of the Cullman Sheriff's Citizens'...

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange looks on as Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry addresses the Fall 2016 graduating class of the Cullman Sheriff's Citizens'...

Photo: Left to right: Hanceville Mayor Kenneth Nail, Deputy Chief Adam Hadder, Lt. Brannon Hammick and Police Chief Bob Long (Aug. 25, 2016) Late last...

HANCEVILLE - Despite the thunderstorms earlier in the afternoon, hundreds of families ventured out to C.W. Day Park in Hanceville for the town’s annual...

If people don’t know who their deputies are, then we are failing. There are places that see law enforcement and the citizens as two...

MONTGOMERY- Gov. Bentley on Monday announced the Alabama State Capitol will be illuminated blue every night this week to honor the men and women...

CULLMAN - Cullman resident Jamie Speakman has taken it upon himself to show his support for local law enforcement by spray-painting a blue line...

Photo: From left to right: Cullman City Police Chief Kenny Culpepper, Hanceville Police Chief Bob Long, Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry and Cullman Area...