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Monday, April 27, 2026

Houston Co. DA “Whistleblower” sentenced after getting kicked out of rehab facility - WDHN

ENTERPRISE, Ala (WDHN) — After being kicked out of a rehab facility, an Enterprise woman who had an alleged online relationship with a Houston County prosecutor will serve the remainder of her sentence in jail.

In October 2022, Jamie Connolly was sentenced to 100 months on the charge of possession of a controlled substance. Connolly’s sentence was split to serve 24 months with the Community Corrections Program at the Starting Point Recovery Center.

According to court records, recently, Connolly was kicked out of Starting Point Recovery Center after failing to take her medications as directed and instead snorting them.

According to Coffee County District Attorney James Tarbox, during a Thursday hearing, Judge Shannon Clark ordered that Connolly serve the remainder of her 24-month sentence with the Alabama Department of Corrections. Connolly has earned time served while in community corrections.

DA Tarbox says after her sentence, Connolly will serve probation, and if she violates the terms of her probation, she could face the remainder of her 100-month sentence, approximately 76 months.

Along with her ongoing drug cases, Connolly was the whistleblower exposing alleged misconduct with Houston County Assistant District Attorney Mark Johnson.

In February 2022, Connolly wrote a letter to the court alleging that Johnson friended her on Facebook in October 2021, and the two began having an “online relationship.” Johnson was the prosecutor in one of Connolly’s court cases in 2019....



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