Mayor has councilwoman’s spouse arrested

Wadley Mayor Bruce Albright said he was just not going to take it anymore and swore out a warrant for the arrest of a city councilwoman’s husband for the obscene gestures Samford Lamar “Bud” Stringfellow was allegedly making toward him.

The mayor said: “I just got tired of being harassed. He’s trying to provoke me. I got angry that morning; he did it in front of a bunch of people. I just want it to stop… He wasn’t throwing up his hand to speak to me.”

Albright was at his store, Albright’s Corner Express, with Wadley Police Chief Marc Green; a unnamed man who does chaplain work at the jail, and two other people when Stringfellow drove by and made the obscene gesture, the mayor said.

“It just got off with me this time… His wife is police commissioner. She’s running for mayor. I don’t know what he’s trying to do,” Albright said.

A call placed to the councilwoman was not returned.

According to records, this event occurred Friday and the warrant for harassment was issued. Stringfellow, 50, of Wadley was arrested Monday morning, taken to the Randolph County Jail, and made a $2,500 bond.

District Judge Pat Whaley would hear the case if it goes to court.

The Wadley City Council was expected to meet Tuesday night but Albright said he did not know “what they were up to, whether it would come up or not, but if it did it would have to be in executive session.”