Birmingham’s Biggest Crooks: Dedrick Griham
By Wade KwonIn August, we’re celebrating Birmingham’s Biggest Crooks, whether they be liars, thieves, extortionists, swindlers or thugs. Running daily until Birmingham mayor Larry Langford’s Aug. 31 federal trial. Thanks to Bhamwiki for helping with this project.
Dedrick Griham
Positions held: robber, kidnapper, felon
Wanted for: carjacking and related gun charges
Date of conviction: Nov. 13, 2006
Sentence: Life plus 84 years in prison.
Criminally fun fact: Griham served 5 years of a 20-year sentence for a Mobile robbery when he was paroled in 2005. He abducted a Birmingham attorney from the parking lot of her downtown apartment. Birmingham police captured him at a Homewood motel and freed his captive.
He later escaped from Staton Correctional Facility in Elmore County, but was recaptured when federal agents found him in a cardboard box in West End.
On the stand, he accused his victim of setting up the whole crime with a prostitute named ”Pumpkin.”
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Additional reading:
- Bhamwiki: Dedrick Griham
- Crime Watch
- Meet more of Birmingham’s Biggest Crooks | RSS feed
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