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DIRT ROAD DEPUTY

Author: Edward Englett

Bob the Turkey

One day, around lunchtime, Radio got a call of a “10-11” from a resident on Cedar Mountain Road. (Zone 1) A 10-11, by the State Sheriff’s Radio Code, meant a dog complaint. About 80% of the 10-11 complaints were dogs barking. I arrived at an

Hang on Otis Part 2

It had been a few years since my run-in with the Alabama State Trooper in Dothan (See Honeymoon Trooper). I had the thought, “How in the hell did he get the ass end of that patrol car to sling around going in the other direction

Hang on Otis Part 1

I had heard talk by other deputies having to carry an association man around for a couple years. This task was usually done by the shift senior man or more often by the shift supervisor. One morning I was working the “Task Force”. Yes, Task

J.B.’s Story Part 1

I first met J.B. when he was hired on as a jailer. J.B. was just out of high school and eighteen when he became a jailer. I had now been working for the Sheriff for a year. I was radio operator for six months and

Honeymoon Trooper – Summer 1981

Basically, I had a run-in with an Alabama State Trooper. Judy Fae and I were on the way back home from our honeymoon. Yeah, I’m a true cop. She was my first wife. We were just two star-struck lovers returning from a glorious Florida honeymoon.

Big Marie Part 2

When you first read about Big Marie. It was of the bootlegging story. When we last left Big Marie, she was alone and left with her kids and her grandkids to raise. She was living on a parcel of land on Skyview Drive. Her property

Big Marie

Now, Big Marie was a rather large woman. She and her four or five children lived in a mobile home on about an acre of cleared land. No trees. On that cleared land sat two mobile homes a good way off the road. But of

The dirt road story begins..

My name is Edward E. Englett Sr. I began my career with the Douglas County Georgia Sheriff’s Department in February 1979. I would work continually for Douglas County for 38 years and retired in 2017. I began as a Radio Operator where I received a