GULF SHORES, Ala. — Four months after George Bennett “Bubba” Sutton was arrested by Gulf Shores Police for an alleged shooting, he has been jailed again. This time it is felony charge of domestic violence strangulation.
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GULF SHORES, Ala. — Four months after George Bennett “Bubba” Sutton was arrested by Gulf Shores Police for an alleged shooting, he has been jailed again. This time it is felony charge of domestic violence strangulation.
According to the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Department, Gulf Shores Police arrested the 53-year-old Monday, and he was transferred to the Baldwin County Corrections Facility in Bay Minette Wednesday.
According to the arrest report filed by Gulf Shores Police, officers arrested Sutton at a residence on Yupon Drive in Gulf Shores Monday evening. That report indicated that he is charged with the alleged domestic violence and strangulation or suffocation against a 51-year-old female. The report indicates that officers suspected that alcohol was involved.
Thursday afternoon Bennett remained held at BCSO Correctional Center on a $5,000 bond.
Bennett was arrested in May as a suspect in the shooting of the brother of Alabama and NFL football star Julio Jones at the public beach access in Gulf Shores.
At the time of that incident, Phillip Columbus Jones, age 31 of Foley, was transported from South Baldwin Urgent Care to South Baldwin Regional Medical Center due to injury from a gunshot. He was eventually transported by Baptist LifeFlight to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola, Fla.
Phillip and Julio Jones are natives of Foley.
Sutton is also co-owner of Cactus Café in downtown Foley, which the city declared a public nuisance in February 2012 and subsequently worked to bring up to code. In September 2013, Sutton exchanged words with city leaders during public hearing about the building, which is located at the intersection of East Laurel Avenue and Alston Street.
In that session, Sutton indicated he had been previously unaware of the building’s status and that efforts to work with the municipality had been met by uncooperative city staff. However, City Administrator Mike Thompson said Sutton was present during a tour of the facility and that numerous attempts to contact the building’s owners had gone unanswered.
That public hearing ended with city officials asking Sutton to work with them to develop a plan for repayment of funds spent to stabilize the Cactus Café building. But in October 2013, the City Council voted to move forward with its efforts to recoup what it spent. Those efforts were unsuccessful, as Thompson reported no bids on the property in December 2013. This past February, the city changed locks on the building, which remains vacant on Foley's main downtown business and shopping district.