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…
Ga. deputy sheriff charged in death of friend www.privateofficer.com DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. June 29 2008 By: Rick McCann Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers http://www.privateofficer.com/ Authorities in this metro Atlanta county have been notified this week that a grand jury handed up an indictment against a deputy sheriff who had been involved in a collision last year…
Former Douglas County Deputy Chris Black To Surrender Soon DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ga. — A former Douglas County deputy will soon surrender to his former co-workers.A grand jury handed up an indictment against him Friday. Chris Black is charged with both felony and misdemeanor vehicular homicide in the death of another deputy’s wife. Black was responding…