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Ala. (WBRC) – A former Cullman business owner who was indicted on 20 counts connected to drug trafficking and forgery asked the court to amend her bond so she can go out of state to visit a “professional development and networking summit.” However, the district attorney’s office is arguing that she’s a flight risk and alleged the letter provided for the event was not real and was AI-generated
In August 2025, Cullman Police were reportedly told about a series of forged prescriptions which had been written and filled at several local pharmacies. The prescriptions were reportedly used to get a range of medications, including controlled narcotics
Police launched an investigation which led to a search warrant for Infusion Wellness and Spa, the business connected with the forged prescriptions
Arrest warrants were issued from the investigation on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, for Whitney LeAnn Cheatham, 33, of Cullman. Cheatham was listed as the owner of the spa on their website. Whitney Cheatham turned herself in on Saturday, Aug. 16
Whitney Cheatham’s father, Kelvin Neal Cheatham, also had warrants issued for his arrest. Kelvin Cheatham turned himself in on Sept. 4, 2025
A third person, Kody Ray Smith, was also arrested
Whitney Cheatham was indicted on the following charges on Dec. 4, 2025, according to court documents
- 3 counts of trafficking an illegal drug
- 4 counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance
- Attempt to commit a controlled substance crime
- Conspiracy to traffic
- Conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance
- Attempt to commit a controlled substance crime – trafficking
- Practicing medicine without a license
- 5 counts of fourth-degree forgery
Her bond was set at $1.055 million
According to court records, Whitney Cheatham’s bond included a condition that she does not leave the state of Alabama. However, on July 31, her attorney’s filed a motion to amend the bond, stating that Whitney Cheatham is a “content creator” and that she needed to travel to Nashville, Tennessee from Aug. 6 to Aug. 10, 2026, for that job
The filing said Whitney Cheatham was only requesting to travel for her job and for those specific dates. Prosecutors then filed a response against Whitney Cheatham’s request
“The Defendant is indicted on 20 counts. Three are trafficking counts – Class A felonies. Two of those carry a mandatory minimum 25 calendar years in prison and a $500,000 fine. The third carries a mandatory minimum of ten calendar years,” read the filing from prosecutors. “A defendant facing multiple mandatory sentences, two of them a quarter-century each, has every reason to run.”
The court document from prosecutors continued, stating, “the Court need not guess whether this Defendant would run,” because she allegedly already said she would
Prosecutors said at her prior bond hearing they played a recorded call in which Whitney Cheatham told someone else to tell her father, Kelvin Cheatham, to not turn himself in. On the same call, Whitney Cheatham reportedly said if she got out, she was not coming back
The motion against amending her bond also claims the letter filed as proof of her invite to the “professional development and networking summit,” is “not what it claims to be.”
Letter submitted by Whitney Cheatham by wbrcnews
“It names no company – only ‘Content House’. It has no address, no phone number, no email, no date, and no signature,” prosecutors wrote
Prosecutors also noted there was no venue, no hotel, no schedule and no registration. Prosecutors reportedly submitted the document to Pangram, a notable AI-detection service, which they said concluded the entirety of the letter was AI-generated
Prosecutors said at a prior bond hearing, they introduced evidence that Whitney Cheatham used ChatGPT to ask how to forge a prescription for narcotics. They allege the letter appeared to be another fabricated document
According to court documents, Whitney Cheatham has an Instagram account which “openly advertises links to her subscription pornography platforms.”
On the same day Whitney Cheatham filed a motion to amend her bond so she could travel to Nashville, she posted to her Instagram, telling her followers she was “getting all hot & ready for the content house…first weekend of August,” and that she could not “wait to play and film something extra naughty while there.”
In opposition to Whitney Cheatham’s motion to amend bond, prosecutors alleged that the purpose of the trip was to film pornography for commercial distribution
The prosecution also asked the court to increase Whitney Cheatham’s bond, stating she fabricated evidence and posed a flight risk
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