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The parents of a Madison teen accused of murder have been charged with hindering prosecution, accused of aiding his attempt to flee Alabama before his June trial.
Dr. Iqbal Memon, a pediatrician who practiced in Athens and who occasionally wrote columns about children’s behavioral issues for The News Courier several years ago, was arrested in Madison after his son, Hammad Memon, 17, was captured in Dallas with his mother and 6-year-old sister. Dr. Memon was released on bond. Signs posted on the door of his Madison office state it will reopen Wednesday.
Authorities said Hammad had a Pakistani passport in his possession.
Investigators with the Madison County District Attorney’s Office said Safia Memon and Hammad Memon should be returned to Madison this week.
Safia Memon was arrested Friday night in Dallas County, Texas, on a warrant from the Madison County Sheriff’s Office, also on a charge of hindering prosecution. Safia, 40, was being held in Dallas on $15,000 bond, according to a website for the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office.
The family members apparently left Alabama Wednesday or Thursday after an express mail delivery person reported Hammad had signed for an envelope believed to contain a passport, which was a violation of the terms of Hammad’s bail on a charge of shooting to death classmate Todd Brown, 14, at Discovery Middle School on Feb. 5, 2010. Brown lived in Madison with his mother at the time; his father Michael Brown is from Tanner.
The Memon family lives in Madison, where Memon had a second physician’s office.
Hammad was 14 at the time of the shooting but was to be tried as an adult on June 18.
Dr. Memon was charged with hindering prosecution after Madison Police investigators suspected he was not being forthcoming about his family’s location.
In February 2012, Brown’s mother Towanda Moore sued Iqbal and Safia Memon, as well as administrators of Madison City Schools and the board of education, claiming they knew Hammad had a history of bad behavior when he transferred from Liberty to Discovery Middle School. The suit states Hammad “was a troubled teenaged boy” with “observable mental instability” and administrators failed to protect Todd Brown.
The pending suit was filed on behalf of Todd Brown’s estate in Madison County Circuit Court.
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