Pubdate: Thu, 20 May 2010
Source: Gadsden Times, The (AL)
Copyright: 2010 The Gadsden Times
Contact:  http://www.gadsdentimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1203
Author: Lisa Rogers

TWO ATTORNEYS ARRESTED, JAILED

Gadsden attorney Frank Bailey and an assistant district attorney from
Coosa County were booked in at the Etowah County jail Wednesday night,
but information about the charges was not released.

Bailey, 58, and Frank Sherman Teel, 59, were booked about 7:30
p.m.

Teel is an assistant district attorney in Coosa County. Both men are
being detained for other agencies, jail records show.

Sources say the arrests are connected.

Bailey represents an Etowah County man who survived when he and two
others were tied up, robbed and set on fire 15 years ago in Coosa
County. The other two victims died of their injuries.

Three men were indicted in the case by a Coosa County grand jury last
November -- L.C. Collins Jr. of Gadsden, Mickie Wayne Collins of
Attalla and Charles Richard Tooley of Navarre, Fla.

The three are charged in the deaths of Charles Thomas Amberson Jr.,
41, and Darrell Thomas Coleman, 39, both of Gadsden. They are charged
with attempted murder of a third victim, Roger Darrell Firestone, of
Hokes Bluff.

Bailey represents Firestone in a potential lawsuit.

The men were injured on May 16, 1995, and were discovered on the edge
of the road near a hunting cabin in the Unity community.

Fire and rescue crews, along with the Coosa County Sheriff's Office,
responded to the call of a fire and explosion and found one of the men
at the edge of the road.

The others were found nearby and all had severe burns. The hunting
cabin, off Lay Dam Road, also was burning, Wilson said.

The victims told law enforcement officers they had been tied up,
robbed and set on fire by people they did not know.

All three immediately were transported to nearby hospitals and
Amberson and Coleman died within a few days, Wilson said.

Firestone, 45 at the time, survived.

More than 1,000 marijuana plants were found on the property near the
lodge. 
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