A woman who briefly escaped the custody of Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's deputies was recaptured in under 10 minutes after fleeing down 15th Street on foot Thursday morning.
A man who reportedly beat his ex-girlfriend to death earlier this month was hospitalized after he suffered a beating of his own at the hands of ten inmates in the Tuscaloosa County Jail.
Police say a man near Moundville broke in to his ex's house early Friday attempting to kill her new boyfriend as her two children slept in the other room.
Detention officers allegedly found cocaine, marijuana and more than $6,000 cash "hidden underneath the fat rolls" of an inmate being booked in the Tuscaloosa County Jail last week.
An inmate who escaped from the Tuscaloosa County Jail Friday was reportedly recaptured by police after a woman discovered him hiding under the couch she sat on.
A man accused of kidnapping and beating a woman in Tuscaloosa in 2020 was caught last week trying to sneak drug-laced money into the Tuscaloosa County Jail.