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The Alabama State Fire Marshal’s Office announced that Selma Fire Department’s former interim fire chief was arrested on theft charges on Friday.
Franklin Edwards was taken into custody by Alabama State Fire Marshal’s Deputies with assistance from the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office on first-degree theft of property charges.
The State Fire Marshal’s Office stated that Edwards will be held at the Perry County Detention Center pending bond. Details of the theft have not yet been released.
Edwards also is still facing previous charges after being arrested in 2020 and charged with felony leaving the scene of an accident.
According to previous reports, the crash occurred June 26, 2020, on Interstate 59/20 southbound at mile marker 102. Matthew Scott Sartin, a 22-year-old from Pineville, Louisiana, was killed in the crash.
After troopers secured the scene, they found a 2009 BMW 750 sedan about two miles south of the crash. It was disabled and abandoned. Investigators determined the vehicle had been driven by Edwards. He was booked into the Jefferson County Jail and was released after posting $10,000 bond.
Court records show that Edwards is set for trial in March of 2025 for the hit-and-run incident.
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