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Man fatally shot at south Fulton gas station
Fulton County police have a video clip that shows the face of a man suspected of shooting another beside the pumps at a Chevron gas station early Sunday, but they don’t have a name. Fulton County Police Department spokesman Scott McBride said investigators are hoping someone recognizes the suspected gunman ...
750 jurors summoned for racketeering trial of former DeKalb School superintendent and others
Around 750 summonses have been sent in hopes of finding 12 jurors and four alternates to hear the upcoming racketeering trial of former DeKalb County School Superintendent Crawford Lewis, the district’s one-time chief operating officer Pat Reid and her ex-husband Tony Pope. On Friday, DeKalb Superior Court Judge Cynthia Becker ...
Clayton special grand jury says more investigation needed into county government
A special purpose grand jury told a Clayton County judge Tuesday there is more corruption and malfeasance in local government that needs to be investigated and urged him to appoint another panel to finish the work they started. “We, as a grand jury, felt it shouldn’t be ended,” foreman Walter ...
Grand jury report: Clayton government irresponsible, abuses power
Some Clayton County elected officials and the people they hire to run county agencies are “irresponsible,” abuse their powers and use their positions to help themselves, their relatives and their friends, according to a report from a special grand jury that is to be released Tuesday. Almost 2 1/2 years ...
Clayton DA drops case against two former sheriff’s office employees
The Clayton County district attorney has dropped charges against two key witnesses for the prosecution in the case against Sheriff Victor Hill. District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson took that action 11 days after a Clayton County jury acquitted Hill of charges that he had used his office for personal gain. ...
How task force targets child sex offenders
The FBI, along with local law enforcement officers assigned to Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces, focus on men and women called “travelers,” who use the Internet to find children for sex. Even though the FBI leads these efforts, most of the cases are prosecuted in local courts. Usually a ...
FBI agent’s actions jeopardize Georgia child sex prosecutions
The alleged indiscretions of a married FBI agent have jeopardized at least 10 criminal cases against suspected sexual predators of children. The FBI has disbanded the joint local-federal Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force while it investigates the agent who ran it, Ken Hillman. According to a letter from the ...
Suit against Clayton sheriff claims retaliation, hostile workplace
One former and two current employees of the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office are suing Sheriff Victor Hill for allegedly retaliating against them because they successfully sued him in 2005. Former Chief Deputy Garland Watkins, who ran against Hill as a write-in candidate last year, and Lt. Brian Crisp and Lt. ...
Teenager locked up eight months for running away
The transformation of the teenage girl can be traced in pictures.The sandy-haired pre-teen, thrilled to be a big sister, had morphed into a troubled 16-year-old with face piercings, her hair streaked fire-engine red and black.She began running away. She was drinking. She wouldn’t go to school. Her mother eventually called ...
New indictment means smaller case against former DeKalb school superintendent and others
Former DeKalb County School Superintendent Crawford Lewis, his former chief operating officer and her ex-husband are facing a third version of a racketeering case first brought against them more than three years ago, but now there are fewer charges, fewer schools and fewer taxpayer dollars involved and two names have ...
Suspended Clayton police chief returns to work
Clayton County Police Chief Greg Porter has returned to work even though he remains under investigation for alleged theft of federal grant money, his attorney confirmed Wednesday. “It is our understanding that the chief has been reinstated and is back at work, ” Porter’s attorney, Manny Arora, said in a ...
Victor Hill pays lawsuit with $300K in county funds
Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill has used $300,000 of his department’s budget to settle a false-arrest lawsuit against him that had pushed him into personal bankruptcy. It’s a judgment the county had refused to pay when a federal jury ruled against Hill in 2008, during his first term in office. ...
Lawsuit: State fails to pay bills for disabled
The state isn’t paying all the money it owes to private providers of care for disabled Medicaid patients, forcing some providers to cut services, a lawsuit contends. According to the suit, two state agencies allowed hundreds of millions of unspent dollars to “lapse” into the state’s general fund, leaving the ...
North Georgia town agrees not to enforce gun-ownership mandate
The North Georgia town of Nelson has agreed to back off it’s mandate that there be a gun in every household, settling a lawsuit brought last spring by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. On Friday a federal judge gave the town that straddles the Cherokee and Pickens county ...
DeKalb school shooting suspect had hundreds of rounds
So many bullets and such a powerful rifle. Police say Michael Brandon Hill had almost 500 rounds and an AK-47 “style” rifle. Officers descending on Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy Tuesday afternoon could tell by the sound. “As soon as I heard the gunfire I said ‘yea. This is ...
‘Seamless’ police response, bookkeeper helped prevent disaster
T.L. Wortham hardly looked like a man about to storm a school where a gunman was threatening the lives of 800 children. Dressed not in black fatigues and boots, the investigator on the fugitive squad of the DeKalb County Police Department had on shorts and red shoes under his body ...
Tragedy averted in DeKalb County school shooting
It was an ordinary afternoon in the second week of school when students and teachers heard the sharp, distinctive cracks of gunfire and a woman’s urgent voice over the loudspeaker: “Intruder alert. Intruder alert. Lock down.” In an instant, those at Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in DeKalb County ...
Gunman arrested at DeKalb school
A person was in custody Tuesday after shots were fired at a DeKalb County elementary school, police said. The incident occurred at Ronald McNair Discovery Learning Academy at 216 2nd Avenue. No injuries were reported in the incident. “Shooter apprehended; all kids safe and accounted for,” interim Superintendent Michael Thurmond ...
Special grand jury still working after sheriff’s acquittal
With the acquittal of Sheriff Victor Hill, some in Clayton County are questioning the purpose of investigations by the special grand jury that led to charges against the lawman and other officials. Throughout Hill’s trial on racketeering and theft charges, defense attorneys repeatedly said the special-purpose grand jury — which ...
Clayton Sheriff Victor Hill acquitted of all charges
layton County Sheriff Victor Hill, facing the possibility of prison and the end of his law enforcement career, walked out of his racketeering trial Thursday with his badge still hanging from his neck and the weight of 27 felony charges off his shoulders.A Clayton jury cleared Hill of all charges ...
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