Press Releases: 2008

Blackshear- The Pierce County Sheriff's Office and GBI Douglas Office have arrested three adult males and one juvenile male in reference to a shooting which occurred on Thursday, December 18, 2008 in PierceCountyGeorgia.

Blackshear- On Tuesday, December 16, 2008, around 9:00 a.m., the body of Wendell Bruce Connell was found in a wooded area off of Clark Road adjacent to a residence in Pierce County Ga. Mr.

DAWSONVILLE - Northeastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Lee Darragh announced today that the Dawson County Grand Jury has indicted Manford Bruenn for the March 1986 murder of Donald Wade Smith.

MACON COUNTY: The GBI and Houston County Sheriff’s Office culminated a yearlong investigation today by serving search warrants and arrest warrants at a Macon County trucking company.   The trucking company is located at 2524 Drayton Road, Montezuma, Georgia.  

ATHENS - On Friday, December 5, 2008, Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in Athens arrested former Madison County Deputy Clerk Melinda Watson Spence charging her with one felony count of Theft by Taking in excess of $80,000.00 of Madison County Government funds.  Spence, age 40, was

On Monday, December 1, 2008, at approximately 11:00 p.m., Christy Jackson alerted Law Enforcement in Hamilton County Florida, that she had been kidnapped in Lee CountyGeorgia, and escaped from her captors.  Law Enforcement were able to confirm Jackson's identity and notified the Lee County Sherif

LEESBURG-   The Lee County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are seeking the public’s help in connection with the disappearance of a 28-year-old Leesburg woman.  Christy Maria Jackson of 129 Flat Ridge Court in Leesburg was last heard from yesterday afternoon shortly after

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November 20, 2008

PEARSON- An arrest has been made in the murder of a female in Pearson, Ga. The GBI obtained a felony murder warrant for Rashaad Maurice Bester, 26 YOA, of Douglas, Georgia. Bester was taken into custody without incident at approximately 9:30 p.m.

PEARSON- On Sunday, October 26, 2008, at approximately 12:07 p.m., Tri-County 911 received a call from an unknown female in reference to a body on the side of the road in Pearson, Ga.