Man who murdered three in Athens pleads for appeal from prison hospital
One evening in January 2009, Athens-Clarke County police officers responded to the Hallmark Estates mobile home park on a resident’s report that a bullet fired from a neighboring home went through a...
View ArticleUGA student hospitalized after struck by car in west Athens
A University of Georgia student was hospitalized Monday after his scooter was struck by a car in west Athens.Raphael Arbelaez apparently didn’t see the oncoming car. Athens-Clarke County police said...
View ArticleAthens teens charged with sexual assault during Special Olympics outing
Two Athens teens were recently arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy while they were in Cobb County for a Special Olympics event.The alleged assault happened in a hotel room the...
View ArticleMan assaults Athens woman and children the same day he's paroled from prison
Athens-Clarke County police arrested on Tuesday a 30-year-old man for allegedly assaulting an Athens woman and her children the same day they picked him up from prison.Marcus Jermaine Sims allegedly...
View ArticleUGA student struck by car, hospitalized
A University of Georgia student was hospitalized Monday after his scooter was struck by a car in west Athens.Raphael Arbelaez apparently didn’t see the oncoming car. Athens-Clarke County police said...
View ArticlePolice: Athens man slams woman's and son's heads into dresser
Athens-Clarke County police said they arrested a 30-year-old man Wednesday morning after he assaulted his girlfriend and her 10-year-old son.Duran Jabbar Elder allegedly grabbed the woman by the hair...
View ArticleThird arrest made in eastside Athens daytime burglary
Authorities on Wednesday made a third arrest in connection with a daytime burglary of a home last month in east Athens.Brandon Bernard Walker, 19, of Zebulon Drive was arrested on warrants charging him...
View ArticleAthens police looking for man who took fire department's Jaws of Life
Athens-Clarke County police are searching for a man they said took a “Jaws of Life” device that fell off a fire truck as it responded to an emergency call Wednesday afternoon.The hydraulic Hurst...
View ArticleAthens police looking for man who pointed gun at children
Athens-Clarke County police said they were looking for a man who on Wednesday waved a gun around in a north Athens neighborhood and pointed it at some residents that included children.Witnesses said...
View ArticleUGA student hit by car while riding scooter emerges from coma
Raphael Arbelaez came out of a medically induced coma Wednesday, two days after the University of Georgia student was struck by a car while riding his scooter to a study group.As he gradually realized...
View ArticleGrand jury indicts man who may have tried pulling gun on Athens cop
A Clarke County grand jury this week indicted a convicted felon who Athens-Clarke police said may have been reaching for a gun during a January traffic stop in east Athens.Athens-Clarke County police...
View ArticleMan indicted for assaulting Athens boy while on parole
A Clarke County grand jury this week indicted a man on charges he assaulted a 12-year-old boy in a north Athens mobile home park in January.Gary Gordon Scales, 36, was charged with first-degree cruelty...
View ArticleJury finds Athens man not guilty of elderly homeowner's murder; victim's...
Following a week-long trial and several days of deliberation, a Clarke County jury on Friday found an Athens man not guilty of murder in the 2012 shooting death of an elderly man during a burglary of...
View ArticleAthens police searching for 'Carrot Top' suspect in eastside burglary
Athens-Clarke County police said they are searching for a suspect who resembles comedian Carrot Top.Police suspect the look-a-like was involved in a Thursday afternoon burglary of a home in west...
View ArticleAthens doctor formerly charged with raping patient sentenced to probation
A suspended Athens doctor who was arrested more than three years ago on a patient’s complaint that she’d been raped by the doctor while sedated in his office was found guilty Thursday on two felony...
View ArticleAthens felon arrested with loaded handgun while on probation
A convicted Athens felon was arrested early Sunday after he was found in possession of drugs and a gun, Athens-Clarke County police said.Dexter Cardera Williams, 24, of Ruth Street, at the time was on...
View ArticlePolice: UGA frat pledges lined against wall and punched during alleged hazing
Nearly a dozen University of Georgia students arrested for allegedly engaging in hazing lined pledges up against a wall and took turns striking them as part of an initiation rite, according to arrest...
View ArticleMan's competency to be reviewed more than six years after nearly killing...
Athens-Clarke County police Sgt. Courtney Gale was making some extra money the night of Dec. 11, 2007, working in uniform as a security guard at the Alps Road Kroger.Someone approached and alerted her...
View ArticleAthens detective named officer of the year for investigations, dedication and...
The Athens-Clarke County Police Department recently named Det. Richard Boyle Officer of the Year for 2013 for outstanding work as a robbery-homicide investigator.But that’s just part of the reason.When...
View ArticleAthens man guilty of murder, receives life sentence
An Athens man was sentenced to life in prison after a Clarke County jury convicted him Monday of a 2012 shooting death in the Stonehenge neighborhood of Athens.After listening to a week’s worth of...
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