Mobile County grand jury indicts illegal alien in slaying
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
By GARY McELROY

An illegal alien charged with murder after allegedly cutting a woman and running her over with a vehicle was among those indicted this month by Mobile County's May grand jury.

Two murder cases topped a grand jury report that was heavy with theft and drug indictments, along with other charges, including arson, criminal mischief, child endangerment and carrying a pistol without a permit.

Grand jurors reported considering 583 cases and issuing 422 indictments — 390 felonies and 32 misdemeanors. Nine cases were continued, and jurors chose not to indict in 152 cases.

Among the latter group, jurors declined to indict Curtis Lamont Wilson and David Jerald Minchew. Both men were originally charged with rape in separate incidents, but jurors decided otherwise.

Jurors also reported no criminal liability on the part of personnel at the Mobile County Metro Jail in the February hanging death of 42-year-old T.C. Harris.

The grand jury indicted 20-year-old Ivan Lee Black of Satsuma on charges of leaving the scene of an accident where death was involved.

According to police reports, 18-year-old pedestrian Kenneth Robert Musgrove II of Daphne was struck Aug. 14 by a vehicle as he walked along Rangeline Road in south Mobile County. He died nearly a week later in a hospital.

Police said it was Black's 1997 Ford Explorer that struck Musgrove, and Black was charged with the crime in early September.

The two murder indictments came from separate incidents:

Carlos Guillero Posada, 34, was charged in the murder of 23-year-old Sharon Nicole Lee of Georgiana, Ala. Her body was spotted in a roadside ditch by a truck driver in the Theodore area in April 2008. According to reports, the Butler County woman was cut in the face and had been run over. Her half-nude body was found lying in bloody water in a ditch off an Interstate 10 service road, police said.

Posada, a Mexican citizen who was once deported but made his way back to the United States, has been declared a flight risk and remains incarcerated in Metro Jail.

In the second murder case, grand jurors indicted Travaris Zarlando Baggett, 22, in the September shooting death of 22-year-old London Clements.

According to police, Clements was shot several times. His body was found in the back seat of a vehicle parked in the middle of Birmingham Street in Prichard.

Based on tips from informants, police said, Baggett was arrested later on the day of the killing.

As part of its standard duties, the May grand jury also inspected county jail facilities and reported that the Metro Jail was housing 1,105 inmates in a space designed for 861. A nearby misdemeanor facility, with a capacity of 328, was housing 261 inmates, jurors reported.


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