A 54-year-old man was arrested Thursday after authorities say he molested two teenage boys in a Gainesville neighborhood last month, police said.
James Jackson Hall III is in the Hall County jail on child molestation and sexual battery charges stemming from the Jan. 31 assaults, Gainesville police spokesman Kevin Holbrook said in a statement.
Holbrook said Hall approached two teens at different times and locations in the New Holland area of Gainesville and began asking them random questions. Hall allegedly groped them and left the area.
Hall was arrested after a search at his Indian Circle home.
No other details were released.
In other news:
A student was found with an unloaded handgun at school, a county superintendent said. After the student showed the gun to another student, the classmate reported it to an adult, who immediately secured the backpack, the official said in a statement. “There is no evidence the child intended to hurt anyone,” the superintendent said. “The weapon was never loaded, brandished or used to threaten anyone.” School officials worked with the police and the sheriff’s office on the incident, which will be
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