Former Yea Alabama Content Director Back in Jail Without Bond
Robert Aaron Suttles, a longtime Alabama sportswriter and former content director for Yea Alabama (the official name, image and likeness organization for UA athletics), has been arrested for a second time in Shelby County. He remains in jail this morning.
Suttles was first arrested on July 23rd in Shelby County during an undercover prostitution/ human‑trafficking sting operation conducted by the Shelby County Drug Task Force. He was charged with soliciting prostitution and released on a $1,000 bond.
Two days after being released in Shelby County, Homewood Police arrested the 49-year-old on a DUI charge, according to a motion filed by his attorneys. One of the conditions of his bond in the Shelby County case was that he not commit another crime. Violation of that court order caused his bond to be revoked, sending him back to jail in Shelby County.
On Monday, Shelby County prosecutors filed a motion to revoke Suttles' bond, and a judge granted it, ordering Suttles to be held without bond. He turned himself in at the Shelby County Jail after learning of the revocation.
Suttles' attorney is now working to have the judge reinstate the bond at an upcoming hearing, still to be scheduled.
The University of Alabama graduate is a multi-award-winning sports journalist who has covered Alabama and Southeastern Conference athletics for more than a decade.
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