Drug cases, a murder trial and fatal vehicle accidents hit the county hard during June.

Ragland police arrested Tammy Putman on June 17 for first-degree manufacturing of crystal methamphetamines. When Police Chief James “Bubba” Brown arrived at Putman’s residence, Putman was cooking meth. She confessed and gave Brown consent to search her home.

Putman was arrested and is being held on bond. Brown sad he thought she would have stopped manufacturing drugs since her husband, William Howard Crowe, was arrested a week earlier on three counts of distributing methampetamines and one count of felony purchase of pseudoephedrine. He is also in jail.

Tiffany Rebecca Coleman, 29 from Birmingham, was also arrested on June 17 after attempting to smuggle drugs into the St. Clair County Correctional Facility.

Coleman was seen driving around the prison’s property on a non-visitation day and was pursued by guards and Argo Police Chief James Downing. After searching her vehicle, Downing found two packages of marijuana and $405 in cash. Coleman was charged with first-degree possession of marijuana, unlawful distribution of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, attempting to elude and

second-degree promoting prison contraband. Coleman is being held without bond because of outstanding warrants in Jefferson County.

Drug cases were not the only things happening in the county, however.

Randy O’Neal Davidson, 29, of Shelby County was transferred to the St. Clair Correctional Facility. Davidson is charged with the capital murder of Diana Donahoo Rice, 62. Rice’s body was found off of the Camp Winnataska Road in 2009.

He was previously held in Shelby County from charges stemming from an unrelated case.

Davidson also has charges of first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, attempted rape and cruelty to animals pending in Jefferson County. If he is convicted in the murder case, he could face the death by lethal injection or life in prison without parole. His trial is set for Sept. 27.

University of South Alabama running back Anthony Ray Mostella Jr., 22, of Oneonta was killed in a motorcycle accident on June 13. He was pronounced dead at the scene, which was six-tenths of a mile east of the St. Clair County 26 and 33 intersection.

Gwendolyn Self, 42, of Springville was confirmed dead Monday after a car accident. She was traveling north on U.S. 411 when she veered into oncoming traffic and hit a vehicle traveling south. Lt. Thomas Hunt said the weather could have been a factor. The passengers in the other vehicle did not have life-threatening injuries.

Ondie O. Burge, 70, of Derrider La., died in a two-vehicle accident on June 18. His car was exiting Interstate 59 at the Springville exit and making a left turn when it was hit on the passenger’s side, according to the St. Clair County Coroner’s Office.