Holtville High School basketball coach arrested

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By Cliff Williams Staff Writer

The winter weather has caused havoc on multiple water suppliers in the area, primarily in southern Tallapoosa County, eastern Elmore County and portions of Macon County.

While demand is high and leaks due to burst pipes abound, one system is completely out of water in its tanks resorting to bottled water. Other water authorities are cautious suggesting limiting usage.

A virtual teacher at Elmore County School’s Edge program has been arrested and charged with school employee distributing obscene material to a student.

Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin said Emmanuel Andre Wilson II, 32, of Montgomery turned himself into authorities Tuesday afternoon.

“Unfortunately, Wall Street Water Authority (WSWA) has completely run out of water on our water system,” it said on its Facebook page. “Our tanks are completely empty and we are at

Wilson was the head basketball coach at Holtville High School and was placed on administrative leave Jan. 13 according to Elmore County Schools superintendent Richard Dennis.

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“We had a report,” Dennis said. “We had a preliminary investigation and handed it off to the appropriate authorities. He was also placed on administrative leave at that time.” the mercy of the treatment plant to supply us water once their current system gets restored. We are hopeful [Monday] that we can start pumping water again but this will be a several day restoration process for WSWA to have water at a normal operating level. We are sorry for this inconvenience and will do our best to have everyone water

Dennis said school officials follow the same procedure when administrators receive a report of allegations against school staff and employees.

“Once we hand it over, we know very little about what is going on,” Dennis said. “We cooperate with authorities if necessary.”

Franklin said investigators with the Elmore County Sheriff’s Office have the alleged victim’s phone. Authorities collected Wilson’s phone as well.

WSWA currently has bottled water at its office for its customers to have drinking water. WSWA services parts of Reeltown, East Tallassee and parts of Macon County.

Loachapoka Water Authority but it normally gets water from WSWA.

Wilson was released on a $6,000 bond 90 minutes after turning himself in according to the Elmore County Jail website.

Notasulga has multiple leaks due to breaks caused by the weather. The small town is trying to fill its tanks from the

“You could see a conversation between the two,” Franklin said. “Mr. Wilson is going to contend someone had the security code to his phone and he was not responsible. There is other information we can’t disclose now but I don’t think it’s beneficial to Mr. Wilson.”

Tallassee Mayor Sarah Hill said Monday the city’s water filter plant has been manned and operating at full capacity for several days — even over the holiday. But even with that

Dennis said Wilson also coached other sports at Holtville schools including being the head track coach and assistant football coach.

Dennis said other staff would fill in for the duties of Wilson at Holtville while he is on administrative leave.