HANCEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city is moving to replace and rebuild its entire police department after a grand jury found a "rampant culture of corruption” on the small police force.

The Hanceville Police Department in Alabama is being disbanded after a corruption probe revealed missing evidence and led to the dismissal of 58 felony cases.

Cullman County District Attorney Champ Crocker issued a statement via Facebook on Wednesday, writing that the grand jury found the cases to be "unprosecutable" following an Alabama State Bureau of ...

HANCEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — As a small Alabama city weighs whether to disband its police department accused of having a “rampant culture of corruption,” residents are split over how to weigh the ...

Crocker released preliminary results Monday of an audit of the evidence room. Among the missing items were: 1.5 grams of cocaine, 67 oxycodone pills, 4 Adderall pills, 0.5 grams of heroin, a .25 ...

The Hanceville Police Department in Alabama is being disbanded after a corruption probe revealed missing evidence and led to the dismissal of 58 felony cases.

Several items were missing from the evidence room, including 67 oxycodone pills, 39 gabapentin pills, 1.5 grams of cocaine and a .25-caliber handgun, Crocker wrote in a letter to the city's mayor ...

Many items were missing altogether—including drugs, guns, and cash. Crocker said most of the 58 dismissed cases were drug-related, and only a few involved personal crimes with direct victims.

HANCEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama city is moving to replace and rebuild its entire police department after a grand jury found a "rampant culture of corruption” on the small police force.