Press Releases: 2008

DECATUR – Newton County Sheriff Joe Nichols and GBI Director Vernon Keenan announced that Rodney Young, 40, was arrested today in Bridgeton, New Jersey, for the murder of Gary Lamar Jones. 

DECATUR – Today, agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation along with Georgia Tech Police arrested a 19 year-old Georgia Tech Freshman for manufacturing drivers' licenses.

Information Sought in Newton County Homicide

COVINGTON – The Newton County Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation are seeking information from the public on a homicide that occurred Sunday in NewtonCounty.

Today, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announces the culmination of a 7 month joint undercover narcotics investigation in Laurens County, Georgia.

On Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Agents with the GBI's Regional Office in Cleveland along with investigators with the Rabun County Sheriff’s Office, conducted a consent search at 63 B Eastwood Lane in Tiger, Rabun County, Georgia.  This is the residence of Larry Farr, age 61 who is currently on Federal

JEFFERSONVILLE - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) and the Twiggs County Sheriff’s Office culminated a six-month undercover narcotics investigation today with the arrests of multiple defendants charged with illegal narcotics sales and related offenses.

DECATUR – Ted Staples, supervisor of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Forensic Biology section, was recently appointed by the FBI as chairman of the Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods.

CLEVELAND - On Thursday and Friday of this week, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation will be assisting local, state, and federal authorities from Georgia and North Carolina with searches in Northeast Georgia in an effort to locate the body of North Carolina hiker John Bryant.   The area in Georgi

CLEVELAND – This afternoon, agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland office located the 1996 white Chevrolet Astro van which had belonged to Gary Michael Hilton.  As a result of recent media reports, agents received a tip from a man who had seen a flat-bed tow truck remove the

CLEVELAND - The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is asking for help in locating a 1996 white Chevrolet Astro van bearing Georgia tag 766XPZ which had belonged to Gary Michael Hilton.  This van was last seen approximately one month ago in an area in White County called Tray Mountain by a hunter at