Press Releases: 2009

OGLETHORPE, GA - On Wednesday, August 19, 2009, at approximately 5:30 p.m., accused murderer, Cordalero L.

Decatur – A 33-year-old Newnan man was arrested last night by GBI agents for threatening a GBI crime lab scientist. George Thomas Lawrence of 257 Kelley Farm Road in Newnan has been charged with Terroristic Threats.

On Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at approximately 1:30 am, the Union County Sheriff’s Office requested the assistance of the GBI in the investigation of a missing person.

NEWNAN – As a result of an investigation requested on July 28 by Newnan Police Chief Douglas Meadows, a Newnan PD officer was arrested yesterday by the GBI on child molestation charges.

DECATUR - Attached is a sketch drawn by GBI Forensic Artist Marla Lawson of a person thought to have been driving the vehicle involved in the recent homicide near the Georgia Dome. The body Darren Douglas Williams, 39, of Columbia, S. C.

AMERICUS, GA - On Sunday, August 02, 2009, at approximately 8:00 a.m., the body of a black male was discovered floating in the Flint River.  The victim, later identified as Tommie Lee Lewis (age 50), was last seen on Saturday morning, August 01, 2009, at approximately 2:00 a.m., according to witn

Adel, Georgia, - On Tuesday, July 28, 2009, at approximately 3:16 p.m., The Cook County Sheriff’s Office received a call in reference to 2 small children who had been left at a rest area located on the south bound lanes of I-75 in Cook County, Ga.

DECATUR -   The DNA Database at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) crime lab or CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) has reached over 1500 hits to unsolved cases. The total number of hits is now 1,511.

ARLINGTON, Va.

DECATUR – The GBI and the GWCC Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying the driver of a 2006-2007 light in color Lincoln Navigator seen in the area around the time Darren Williams was killed.  Williams’ body was discovered around 8:20 am on Tuesday in a parking lot next to the Georg