Ed Marger is leading a team of metro Atlanta lawyers to Haiti this weekend to meet with Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, the former president accused of looting the national treasury. Marger, whose practice is in Jasper, said he got to know Duvalier when he became an acquaintance of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, the younger Duvalier’s…
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — A former Waffle House employee is suing the Gwinnett Police Department for an incident involving a stun gun.According to a letter from the Gwinnett Police Department’s Internal Affairs office, Officer R.B. Whitehead has been demoted from police corporal to police officer for violation of policy in connection with the incident that led…
DECATUR, Ga., Oct. 16 (UPI) — A Georgia county has paid $165,000 for a roust in which a police officer drove a homeless vagrant across the county line and tried to dump him, a lawyer said. Mike Puglise, the man’s lawyer, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution he believed Robert Williams‘ version of his encounter with a…
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. — A judge sentenced a former Douglas County deputy in a deadly wreck that tore apart a community, two families, and the sheriff’s department.Chris Black pleaded guilty to felony vehicular homicide for the Nov. 2007 wreck that killed the wife of a fellow deputy. Friday during his sentencing hearing, Black asked for…
LOGANVILLE, Ga. — Channel 2 Action News reporter Pam Martin has obtained surveillance video of a stun gun incident involving a Gwinnett County police officer at a Loganville Waffle House.Danny Wilson, a Waffle House employee, alleges that Officer Gary Miles Jr. came into the restaurant while on duty and stunned him with a Taser without…
“Bacon” Made porcine progress this week and became a hometown symbol of freedom for pigs, at least the Vietnamese potbellied variety. Lilburn officials on Monday decided Bacon could remain with owner Jerry Cole and be considered a pet instead of a farm animal. They revised city laws to reflect that decision. This is not the…
A Fulton County Sheriffs Department captain who was fired in the aftermath of the courthouse shootings was allowed to retire with clean record under a confidential agreement reached with Sheriff Myron Freeman. Capt. Chelisa Lee was reinstated Nov. 10 and immediately retired, according to the agreement, which was made final Thursday. In exchange for the…
WALTON COUNTY — The civil suit filed against Walton County Sheriff’s Office personel by two motorcyclists injured in an Aug. 21, 2005 traffic stop came to a conclusion in May with a settlement reached between the two parties. Though the initial complaint filed was against the county, Sheriff Joe Chapman and deputies Jerry Hall and…
MONROE — A man remains in Walton County Jail awaiting trial for allegedly running over his wife during an alcohol-related crash. Details of the case remain scarce while the Georgia State Patrol conducts its investigation. According to reports, a 9-1-1 call was made around 2:30 p.m. on July 1 after Randy Gus Vazac, 50, of…
Sheriff’s Capt. Chelisa Lee, facing dismissal for alleged security failings, said Friday that she is nothing like the person depicted in an investigator’s report on the deadly March 11 shootings at the Fulton County Courthouse. A scathing report released last week blamed Lee and other sherriff’s deputies for lax security that allowed a gunman to…