A Mobile County grand jury recommended removing Prichard Police Chief Walter Knight and rebuilding the department after finding misuse of department resources and evidence-room failures; the council read the report and discussed legal limits on its authority and next steps.

PRICHARD, Ala. (WKRG) — For the second time in less than three months, a Prichard police officer finds himself on the other side of the law. This comes after a Prichard police officer, Malachi Ligon, was arrested after seizing a cellphone and sending explicit images to a suspect's wife. "We go through so much as [...]

PRICHARD, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile County Sheriff's Office deputies have arrested a Prichard Police Department officer who allegedly withheld evidence during an arrest and sent explicit images from the arrestee's phone to that man's wife. According to an MCSO news release, Malachi Ligon, a PPD officer, arrested a man on Aug. 11 on charges of [...]

PRICHARD, Ala. (WKRG) — The Prichard Police Department is asking for the public's help in identifying a man connected to a string of thefts at the ABC store in Eight Mile. According to a release from PPD, the suspect stole multiple bottles and cases of liquor on several different occasions between June and July 2025. [...]

PRICHARD, Ala. (WKRG) — Prichard police are looking for a man they say took a wallet that didn't belong to him at a local business. According to a Prichard Police Department news release, the man was caught on surveillance video taking the wallet off a table. The incident happened Thursday, June 19, around 2:28 p.m., [...]

UPDATE (6/18 5:55 p.m.): The Mobile County District Attorney's Office has upgraded the charge for Devoris Malone from unlawful imprisonment to first-degree kidnapping. UPDATE (8:03 p.m.): An investigation is underway after a police officer was caught on camera using a baseball bat to repeatedly strike a man suspected of domestic violence. A woman in Prichard [...]

PRICHARD, Ala. (WKRG) — The Prichard Police Department is holding a press conference at 11:30 a.m. today in response to a video posted on social media. Two PPD officers can be seen in the video, with a city spokesperson saying it has "raised concerns in the community and online." News 5 is sending a crew [...]

PRICHARD, Ala. (WKRG) — A Prichard Police Department officer has been arrested in Orange County, Florida. According to the jail log, 22-year-old David DeWayne Cunningham was arrested on a charge of kidnapping a minor out of Harrison County, Miss. We are working to gather more information at this time. This story is developing. News 5 [...]

PRICHARD, Ala. (WKRG) -- Prichard Police say they're looking for suspects who put a card skimmer on a check-out at a local store. Thursday, police say they were called to a store for suspicious activity around a self-checkout stand. Two people were trying to remove a device from the check-out. When confronted by staff the [...]