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News update, May 24

Missing Dunwoody man located Andrew Lichtenstadter, 21, was located May 22 by Atlanta Police near Hartsfield Jackson Airport. He was later transported to Grady Memorial Hospital in good condition and is now with his family. Dunwoody Police said Licht...

News update, May 22

Decatur man arrested for terroristic threats, statutory rape After receiving a tip that a Decatur man had used his Facebook account to communicate physical threats to an underage girl, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Child Exploitation a...

Police alarmed by false calls

DeKalb County leaders hope new fines will reduce the number of false alarms the police department responds to each year. In 2009, 95 percent of the alarms responded to by the police department were false alarms, according to county reports. “Many p...

Child shot in woods behind elementary school

A 12-year-old boy, who was skipping school with two others, was shot in a wooded area behind Montclair Elementary School earlier today, police said. DeKalb County Police spokeswoman Pam Kunz said the shooting victim was with two other boys ages 16 an...

News update, May 17

Drive-in shooter caught Quentric Williams, 32, was arrested in Gwinnett May 16 and charged with allegedly murdering Mitt Lenix at the Starlight Drive-In May 15. Williams was arrested at the Sun Suites on Club Drive at approximately 5:40 p.m. Police s...

Owner of dogs that attacked Lithonia girl wants out of jail early

DeKalb Solicitor General Sherry Boston said the 16-month sentence of the owner of two pit bulls that attacked a girl in 2010 was “more than fair.” The girl’s father, Tommie Ingram, said he wants the dogs’ owner to serve more than the judge ordered. Photo by Andrew Cauthen
A Lithonia woman convicted after her dogs attacked an 8-year-old girl in 2010 wants to get out of jail after four months. An attorney for Twyann Vaughn said her client wants to be released because of “some things that have come up in her life.” V...

Man accused of killing police officers appears in court

William Woodard, 34, who is accused of killing DeKalb County police officers Eric Barker, 34, and Ricky Bryant Jr., 26, while they were working as off-duty security at the Glenwood Gardens Apartments, recently appeared in court. During a motion to su...

Man killed at drive-in, another killed by officer responding to crime

A man was shot and killed at a south DeKalb drive-in theater early Tuesday morning, May 15, and another was killed on Memorial Drive minutes later when he was hit by a DeKalb County Police officer responding to the crime, police said. According ...

News update, May 15

FBI, police arrest suspect in bank robberies The FBI, in cooperation with the DeKalb County Police Department, arrested a Stone Mountain man and charged him with seven bank robberies committed during a 10-month period that started in July 2011.&...

Police officer’s wife attacked during apparent robbery

The wife of a DeKalb County Police sergeant is in critical condition after being attacked during an apparent robbery outside her Lithonia home. The victim returned home at 3:30 a.m. from an evening out with friends when she was physically assaulted o...

News update, May 14

DeKalb men charged in Social Circle killing Two DeKalb County men were arrested May 10 for the killing of a man whose body was found in Social Circle. Corey Thomas, 20, of Decatur, and Antonio Jones, 24, of Stone Mountain, were arrested and...

News update, May 11

SWAT standoff ends with two arrests, one suspect on the run Two burglary suspects were arrested Thursday, May 10, after DeKalb County Police Department’s SWAT team was called out to a Clarkston apartment complex. DeKalb police officers we...

Three police officers accused of beating juveniles

A DeKalb County Police sergeant and two officers were indicted May 10 for allegedly beating suspects. DeKalb County District Attorney Robert James said the officers had “a pattern of conduct…that was being directed by a sergeant to junior of...

News update, May 10

Doraville home intruders identified Khaleaf Silvera and Alfred Wilson are facing charges of aggravated assault, armed robbery, false imprisonment, kidnapping and felony murder after a Doraville home invasion that left one person dead. In th...

13 charged in FAMU hazing incident

The Florida State Attorney’s Office has charged 13 individuals in the hazing death of DeKalb-native Robert Champion. Champion, a student at Florida A&M University who was a member of the school’s famous “Marching 100” band, was found unre...

News update, May 9

Suspect killed during home invasion attempt One man is dead and three others are in jail after a shooting during a home invasion early May 8 in Doraville, according to police. Four men broke into a home on Doral Circle at approximately 5:30...

Decatur Police seeking man who tried to lure boy into his car

The Decatur Police Department is looking for a man who tried to lure a child into his car, department officials said. The incident occurred the afternoon of May 7. At approximately 5:30 p.m., the police department was notified that someone the child ...

News update, May 7

Police found missing elderly man A Mattie’s Call has been canceled for a DeKalb County man with Alzheimer’s disease. Rufus Holcomb, who left his residence on foot at 8:30 p.m. May 5, has been found and is in good health, according to th...

News update, May 4, Part 2

Decatur man sentenced for mail theft Decatur resident Shawn Edwards, 39, and two others were sentenced on charges stemming from a scheme to steal shipments of registered mail. Edwards was sentenced to three years’ probation for stealing r...

News update, May 4

Charges brought in FAMU hazing incident The Florida State Attorney’s Office has charged 13 individuals in the hazing death of DeKalb-native Robert Champion. Champion died last year as from what officials termed a homicide that was “the result of ...

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