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Student indicted for attempted murder of Atlanta Police officer

A DeKalb County grand jury returned a 16-count indictment today on a 19-year-old Oglethorpe University student accused of shooting an Atlanta Police Department officer. Cameron Maddox faces multiple felony counts including attempted murder, aggravate...

News update, April 10

Case of student charged in shooting goes before grand jury The case of Cameron Maddox, a 19-year-old Oglethorpe University student charged with having targeted, shot and wounded an Atlanta Police officer last month, was presented to a grand jury...

News update, April 9

Stolen East Point Police officer's gun found in Dunwoody apartment Dunwoody Police responding to a domestic altercation April 7 found a stolen police officer’s gun. Police were called to Two Block Apartments, located at 4000 Dunwoody Park...

News Update, April 5

DeKalb County engineering supervisor pleads guilty to extortion Fidelis Ogbu, 59, of DeKalb County pleaded guilty to extortion April 4 for operating what officials called a “pay-to-play” scheme. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said Ogbu, an en...

News Update, April 2

Stone Mountain man found dead in Social Circle The body of a Stone Mountain man was found March 29 in Social Circle when firefighters were called to put out a brush fire near I-20. A motorist called 911 to report the fire at 11:44 p.m. An autopsy by ...

Video conference first-appearance hearings introduced at DeKalb Jail

In a room at the jail, Sheriff Thomas Brown looks at a split screen that shows him and Judge Berryl A. Anderson, who is in her courtroom at the courthouse, in real time. Photo by Kathy Mitchell
The law requires that persons charged with a crime have the opportunity to appear before a judge within 48 hours when no warrant was involved and 72 hours when a person is arrested under a warrant. Until recently, this required transporting the perso...

Lithonia man sentenced on federal drug charges

A Lithonia man was sentenced March 30 in federal court on drug and bribery charges. Akil Scott, 32, was sentenced to serve 14 months in federal prison on charges of attempted possession with intent to distribute cocaine and to accepting a bribe ...

News update, March 28

DeKalb fugitive squad arrests leader of New Black Panther Party DeKalb Sheriff’s Office fugitive squad members arrested Hashim Nzinga, 49, for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.  Nzinga is the New Black Panther Party’s chief of s...

Policeman and county employee under investigation for interfering in rape case

A DeKalb County police officer and an employee for the DeKalb County solicitor general’s office are under investigation for interfering in a rape case. Police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said the DeKalb County Police Department is investigating allega...

Three arrests made in shooting death of teenager

Three men have been arrested in connection with a shootout March 25 that resulted in the death of a DeKalb County teenager. Ervin Jefferson, 18, was shot and killed near his sister’s residence at 2625 Pleasant Wood Drive by a security guard wh...

Man sentencted on animal cruelty charge

Aaron Laws of Atlanta was sentenced March 23 by State Court Judge Alvin Wong to one year in prison on two counts of animal cruelty. Laws was found guilty of locking his female pit bull in a closet and leaving her there to die, according to the solici...

News update, March 26

Man arrested after allegedly beating officer A DeKalb County Police officer was beaten when she responded to a call about a suspicious person on March 23. The officer, whose name has not been released, went to 1209 Columbia Drive at approximatel...

News Update, March 22

Clarkston resident sentenced for child porn Joseph Butler, 66, of Clarkston was sentenced this week for his involvement in the child pornography trade. Butler, an employee at the U.S. Department of Education, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for c...

Three indicted for allegedly running illegal gambling operation in Doraville

DeKalb County and Georgia Bureau of Investigation officials raid Big Dawg Gambling in Doraville. Big Dawg owner James Kokott and two of his employees were indicted for operating illegal gambling businesses at seven locations around the state. Photo by Daniel Beauregard
A business owner and two employees were indicted March 13 for allegedly running a multi-million-dollar, illegal gambling operation at seven locations throughout the state, including one in Doraville. Big Dawg Calling Cards was owned and operated by J...

Crime update, March 21

Georgia Supreme Court upholds murder conviction The Georgia Supreme Court on March 19 upheld the murder conviction of a Lithonia man who was found guilty of murdering his roommate. Renato Adel was indicted in August 2007 of killing his room...

Dunwoody day care killer sentenced to life without parole

The murder trial of Hemy Neuman is over but there still are questions in the case. Neuman was sentenced to life without parole on March 15 after a jury found him guilty but mentally ill in the November 2010 killing of Russell Sneiderman outside a Dun...

Accused Dunwoody killer’s fate in hands of jury

Testimony is over in the trial of accused killer Hemy Neuman and now it is up to jurors to decide whether he was insane at the time of the crime. Neuman is on trial for the November 2010 killing outside Dunwoody Prep daycare center of Russell Sneider...

News Update, March 9

Suspect arrested after three hour standoff Investigators from the DeKalb Sheriff’s Fugitive Squad arrested Gabriel Fordham, 21, on March 8 after a nearly three-hour standoff. The arrest was made after the suspect barricaded himself into the attic o...

Tucker Middle School math teacher charged with rape

A DeKalb County Schools teacher was arrested on Feb. 28, charged with statutory rape. Almarcus Dewayne Thomas, 42, of Lithonia, was arrested by DeKalb County School System’s police and charged with three counts each of statutory rape and aggravated...

Man arrested again on bank robbery charges

A man who was arrested for attempted bank robbery in Chamblee was arrested by Dunwoody Police in connection with two 2011 bank robberies in that city, Dunwoody police spokesman Sgt. Mike Carlson said. Trevor Gladstone, 39, of Sandy Springs, was arres...

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