Selma police request assistance from citizens

By Katie Nichols (Contact) | Selma Times-Journal

Published Thursday, June 25, 2009

After a crime is committed and detectives do plenty of legwork and investigation, then comes the next step of finding the suspect. It is not always as easy as going to the subject’s last known address. Some subjects have fled the area while others have just moved to another place in the city.

Every now and then officers will put out a list or even just a person’s name and picture who have an active warrant.

Recently the Selma Police Department Detective Division released a list of 10 people who are wanted for felony crimes.

“We need the public’s help in locating these suspects,” Lt. Davis Evans said. “In order to make an impact on the crime rate in Selma, the police and public need to work together. This is one situation where the public can assist in capturing the 10 suspects.”

Cedric Eaton, 22, Selma

Eaton allegedly placed a gun to the head of a 25 year-old victim on Nov. 11, 2008.

“Mr. Eaton demanded money from the victim,” Police Sgt. Doug Stewart said. The robbery occurred in the 1700 block of Alabama Avenue and police issued a first-degree robbery warrant for Eaton’s arrest. There is also another warrant for robbery in the first degree issued for Eaton.

Frank “Happy” Carter, 47, Tyler

Selma Police have a warrant for Carter regarding a first-degree kidnapping that occurred on April 18, 2007.

Carter allegedly forced the female victim at knifepoint and placed her in her car. Before he left, he threw her to the ground and choked her until she lost consciousness authorities said.

Paul Rivers, Selma

Police received DNA from a semen sample in a sexual abuse case recently and the results matched Rivers, according to authorities. Rivers is wanted for sexual abuse in the first-degree.

Leonard Crocker, 44, Selma

Police obtained a warrant for Leonard Nelson Crocker for theft of property in the second degree. Deputies are also looking for Crocker for theft of property by deception. The Code of Alabama defines this offense as someone who “nowingly obtains by deception control over the property of another, with intent to deprive the owner of his or her property.”

Frank Deville, 45, Selma

Officers are looking for Deville to serve a sexual abuse in the first degree warrant. The Code of Alabama defines the crime as a person who “subjects another person to sexual contact by forcible compulsion” or “subjects another person to sexual contact who is incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless or mentally incapacitated.”

Sadonna Watters, 28, and Tanya Lewis, 29

Watters and Lewis are sought on a charge of theft of property first-degree, but the charges are not in connection with each other. Both face a class-b felony, which if convicted is punishable by imprisonment from two to 20 years and to pay a fine up to $30,000.

Steven Romage, 31; Marcus Durry and Katina Frison, 25

The last three suspects are all wanted for theft of property second-degree warrants. The charges are not connected. The crime is a class-c felony. If any one of the suspects is convicted, then they could face jail time between one year and a day to 10 years in prison and pay a fine up to $15,000.

If you have any information on the whereabouts of any of these individuals, then authorities ask you to contact them.

You can call the police department at 874-6611 or the Secret Witness Line at 874-2190 or Crime Stoppers at 877-3530. Crime Stoppers pays up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest.

Eaton

Carter

Rivers

Crocker

Deville

Lewis

Watters

Frison

Durry

Romage

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