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Theft charges against Glock lawyers to be dropped
The new Cobb County District Attorney said Thursday that he will dismiss charges against three men accused of overcharging the international gun manufacturer Glock Inc by more than $3 million for providing private investigation services. The decision comes on the heels of a state Supreme Court ruling in February that ...
Meth mom sentenced to 30 years for three children’s deaths
With three children dead and a fourth in the custody of her mother, 24-year-old Neibi Brito already has faced dire consequences from her involvement in a Lilburn methamphetamine manufacturing ring. There was still more fallout Wednesday after she entered a guilty plea to charges of voluntary manslaughter, drug trafficking, manufacturing ...
DeKalb cracks down on unlicensed care homes
DeKalb County police on Thursday shut down four group homes for the elderly or disabled and arrested two caregivers in the first major effort to shut down unlicensed personal care homes since a new state law took effect in July. Police say the houses they shuttered represent a few of ...
Details emerge in Gwinnett threat case
New details have emerged about the type of weapons possessed by a Lilburn man who allegedly wrote threatening comments about attacking a Gwinnett County government building, and about the nature of the threats.Court documents show Kevin Samuel Lahey, 26, was homeless and living in a pup tent in his parents’ ...
Lilburn man in federal custody over alleged plot to attack Gwinnett justice center
Federal authorities are investigating a Lilburn man for allegedly plotting to attack the Gwinnett County Justice and Administration Center. Samuel Lahey, 26, is in federal custody after a search of his home about two weeks ago turned up weapons, silencers, drugs and writings saying that he planned to attack a ...
Mother pleads for clues in girl’s death
Facing the bleak reality that 16-year-old Hannah Truelove has been dead six months, yet her killer is still at large, her mother spoke publicly for the first time this week at a press conference at the Hall County Sheriff’s Office. Mona Harris’ statement came in conjunction with the announcement that ...
State high court: Reconsider Glock embezzlement case
Three men accused of overcharging the international gun manufacturer Glock Inc. by more than $3 million for private investigation services may not have to face theft charges if Cobb County prosecutors cannot overcome some legal hurdles. On Monday, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that Cobb County Superior Court Judge ...
Details emerge about teens suspected in deadly robbery
Three Grayson High School teenagers were riding the bus to school Dec. 17 when they hatched a plan to rob a classmate who collected expensive basketball shoes, a Gwinnett County police detective testified Friday. Two days later that classmate, 14-year-old Paul Sampleton, was dead — killed by three bullets to ...
Man convicted of forcing 14-year-old into prostitution
A 20-year-old Norcross man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday in Gwinnett County for forcing a 14-year-old girl into prostitution. Airick Creighton was convicted of aggravated child molestation and pimping a minor following a four-day jury trial that began Monday. Prosecutors said Creighton brought a 14-year-old girl from ...
Prosecutor appointed to State Court judgeship
A senior assistant district attorney in the Cobb Judicial Circuit has been selected by Gov. Nathan Deal to fill a vacant seat on the Cobb State Court bench.Henry Thompson, a 44-year-old Carroll County native, earned his law degree from the University of Georgia law school in 1994. He started his ...
Two portraits emerge of Lilburn shooter
Two strikingly different portraits emerged Tuesday of the Lilburn resident charged with fatally shooting a 22-year-old who mistakenly pulled into his driveway. According to his lawyer, Phillip Sailors was a frightened retiree who fired his .22 revolver at Rodrigo Diaz because he feared for his life. But Diaz’s girlfriend painted ...
‘Nightmare’ string of accidents leaves 1 dead, 1 critically injured
Victims remained shaken a day after a heavy-duty pickup truck struck more than a dozen vehicles, leaving a 15-mile-long path of destruction, injury and death that stretched through parts of DeKalb and Gwinnett counties. “He was able to just ram and ram,” said Jeanetta Johnson, whose car was struck Wednesday ...
Guilty plea clears out Gwinnett’s death penalty docket
Gwinnett County’s longest-pending death penalty prosecution ended Tuesday with a guilty plea from a Vietnamese nail salon owner who gunned down a man and his 2-year-old son over a gambling debt in 2004. There are now no death penalty cases left on the county’s docket, since two other pending cases ...
Suspect in alleged gang shooting denied bond
More was revealed this week about what caused an innocent woman to be gunned down in December after a dispute broke out between two rival gangs.Gwinnett County police Detective Christian Robinson said Thursday victim Malia Ross-Robinson (no relation to the detective) was not involved in gangs and that relatives said ...
Accused pill mill operators face judge
Two physicians, a pain clinic owner and pain clinic manager turned themselves in to authorities Tuesday on federal charges related to the illegal sale and distribution of painkillers at three pain clinics in metro Atlanta. The four defendants pleaded not guilty before U.S. Chief Magistrate Judge Janet F. King, who ...
Mental health court program starts in Gwinnett
Mental illness shouldn’t be a life sentence.It can be, though, for people whose conditions go untreated and who become stuck in the revolving door of the criminal justice system. Recognizing that many people in jail are there because of mental health issues, Gwinnett County is opening a special accountability court ...
Ex-boyfriend arrested in Valdosta State student’s slaying
Answers that friends and family of Jasmine Benjamin have sought for months finally came Friday when the GBI announced that an ex-boyfriend of the Valdosta State University freshman was arrested in connection with her slaying. Darien Meheux, 18, of Lawrenceville, turned himself in Thursday evening to sheriff’s deputies in Ellaville ...
Arrest made in Valdosta State student’s death
Answers that friends and family of Jasmine Benjamin have sought for months finally came Friday when the GBI announced that an ex-boyfriend of the Valdosta State University freshman was arrested in connection with her slaying. Darien Meheux, 18, of Lawrenceville, turned himself in Thursday evening to sheriff’s deputies in Ellaville ...
Charge against Jessica Colotl dropped
The courtroom odyssey of a woman who became a focal point in the national debate on illegal immigration has finally ended. Jessica Colotl, the Kennesaw State University graduate who was arrested and nearly deported over a traffic violation in 2010, is now free from a legal tangle that threatened to ...
Charges against KSU graduate Jessica Colotl dismissed
A Cobb County judge has dismissed the criminal case against Jessica Colotl, a Kennesaw State University graduate whose arrest and near-deportation for a traffic violation in 2010 sparked a controversy about illegal immigrants attending public colleges. Superior Court Judge Mary E. Staley issued an order Wednesday consenting to former District ...
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