A Georgia man was arrested Thursday evening for the 70th time when Atlanta police spotted him driving a stolen car, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Eddie Brantley, 45, was arrested for the 70th time after officers pulled him over in a vehicle that had been taken from a dry cleaner hours earlier, Atlanta police said on […]
A Georgia man has reportedly been sentenced in connection to a scheme to obtain the personal information of school district employees in Connecticut. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Olukayode Ibrahim Lawal was sentenced to about 10 months in prison, time he’s already served in New Haven, Connecticut. Lawal was reportedly indicted in May 2018 and pleaded guilty to one count […]
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A Florida travel insurance company has awarded a Georgia high school teacher $10,000 for reading the fine print in a policy she recently purchased. A Squaremouth statement says Donelan Andrews claimed the prize 23 hours after the contest began. The St. Petersburg-based company says it launched the secret contest Feb. 11. Buried […]
Two attempted child abductions were reported in a single neighborhood Saturday, Channel 2 Action News reports. The children’s parents told police that a man with a grey beard and woman who is missing teeth attempted to grab their kids at a gas station, according police. According to reports, the first incident involved Joshua Thomas’ son and […]
Five women – including one accused of beating a boy to death for eating a cupcake – face multiple charges after allegedly assaulting two other women inside the Fulton County Jail, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Four of the seven women involved are awaiting trial on murder charges. According to reports Shykeria Lashae Alford, 21; Naya-Michelle Hunter, […]
06/09/2020 UPDATE: WSB-TV is reporting that Tamla Horsford‘s family attorney Ralph Fernandez says that after reviewing the case evidence, he believes her death may have been a homicide. In a letter obtained obtained by journalist Mike Petchenik, Fernandez says Horsford appeared to have been “involved in a struggle” before her death. Horsford died in 2018 […]
An off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who police say shot and killed a man in the parking lot of a Georgia Walmart will not face charges, WSB-TV reports. The incident happened on Feb. 17 and surveillance footage shows O.L. Jones step out of his car and shoot 45-year-old Johnathan Liddell in the parking […]
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A woman and her boyfriend were deployed with the U.S. Army in South Korea when they conspired via Snapchat to kill her husband so she could claim the life insurance money, police in Michigan said. Berrian County Judge Sterling Schrock ruled Wednesday in a preliminary hearing that the murder trial […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A congressional subcommittee is highlighting voting problems in Georgia as possible justification for restoring federal oversight of elections in places with a history of discrimination. Democrat Stacey Abrams, who lost her bid for governor last fall, testified Tuesday at a hearing in Atlanta about myriad issues that she says disenfranchised certain Georgia […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Before Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams delivers her party’s rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, she’ll take her voting rights campaign to the airwaves during the Super Bowl. Abrams’ political group, Fair Fight, has bought airtime on Georgia affiliates during Sunday’s NFL broadcast so the Atlanta Democrat can push […]
A Georgia man is accused of leading police on a chase and hiding in a trash can after not being able to break into a home, Channel 2 Action News reports. Marvin Arnold, 32, faces 19 charges after the police chase Sunday, According to police. He’s reportedly accused of driving away from a traffic stop, […]
ROCKMART, Ga. (AP) — Authorities in Georgia are on the lookout for a gunman they say killed four people and wounded a man in a pair of shootings. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation tweeted early Friday that 27-year-old Daylon Delon Gamble is armed and dangerous and wanted on four charges of murder for the shootings […]
