Alleged bootlegger claims robbery at Bethel Midtown Village
A woman called police Wednesday morning to report that she’d been robbed at Bethel Midtown Village.Turns out, Athens-Clarke police said, the so-called victim was a bootlegger who got involved in a...
View ArticleProbation officers bust Athens man holding large sum of cash and drugs
An Athens man on probation for a drug conviction was arrested Wednesday night after probation officers caught him violating his curfew and found him in possession of a large sum of cash and drugs.The...
View ArticleHull woman who tried hiring hitman to kill husband re-arrested
A 72-year-old Hull woman convicted of trying to hire a hit man to murder her husband six years ago was arrested Thursday night for violating probation for the third time since her release from prison...
View ArticleConvicted Athens dealer caught with gun and crack
Athens-Clarke police said a convicted drug dealer was in possession of crack cocaine and a handgun early Friday morning when they found him at an eastside Athens apartment complex.An officer said he...
View ArticleMan tries to deflate cop's bicycle tire in downtown Athens
A drunken Athens man was arrested early Friday after he apparently tried to deflate the tire of a downtown police officer’s bicycle.Athens-Clarke police said the officer responded to the area of North...
View ArticleAthens man learns jury duty not just civic duty, but the law
Serving on a jury isn’t just a civic duty — it’s the law.That’s a lesson an Athens man learned the hard way last week when a Superior Court judge sent him to jail for two days.Along with some 60 of his...
View ArticleAthens parolee busted with crack and cache of guns
Athens-Clarke police last week arrested a paroled felon after they searched his home in West Athens and found several guns and crack cocaine.Police said they conducted a search Friday morning at the...
View ArticlePolice activity at west Athens housing complex just a drill
Heavily armed police officers dressed in combat gear today are ringing homes at a west Athens public housing project.The public need not be alarmed, however, as it is a training drill for members of...
View ArticleMan charged with armed robbery at Athens ATM
A Colbert man was arrested Sunday soon after he allegedly robbed a man who had just withdrawn cash from an ATM in northwest Athens, Athens-Clarke police said.Thomas Newell Combs, 37, allegedly...
View ArticleAthens man calls 911, is arrested on drug and assault charges
An Athens man called police early Monday to report his girlfriend stabbed him, but when officers arrived, they found it was he who had assaulted the woman, and he was in possession of drugs,...
View ArticleAthens-area career criminal arrested for probation violations
A career criminal who allegedly ran a chop shop in Oconee County was arrested Monday for felony probation violations stemming from previous criminal convictions in Athens.By running the alleged chop...
View ArticlePolice investigating possible rape of Athens woman
Athens-Clarke police said Tuesday they were investigating a 21-year-old woman’s claim she was raped in her bedroom last week.Officers met with the woman at St. Mary’s Hospital on Friday to take a...
View ArticleGrand jury declines to indict Athens men on home invasion charges
A Clarke County grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict two Athens men on charges they staged an armed home invasion in January and robbed a pair of University of Georgia students.Prosecutors...
View ArticleMan gets life without parole for Athens murder, double slaying in Bowman
A man was sentenced last week to life in prison without parole for the murders last year of an Athens resident and a man and woman in Bowman.During a sentencing hearing May 2 in Elbert County Superior...
View ArticleAthens burglary victim flees because of felony probation warrant
An Athens man who reported a break-in at his apartment Tuesday ran from police when they learned he had a felony arrest warrant in Spalding County, Athens-Clarke police said.Derek Stanton Rogers, 25,...
View ArticleAthens teen wants separate trial from adults accused of home-invasion murder
A teen this week requested to be tried separately from two older co-defendants in the shooting death of an elderly man during a burglary of his home in north Athens six months ago.Anthony Jermaine...
View ArticleAuthorities search Athens home for Winder armed robbery suspect
Authorities who on Wednesday searched an east Athens apartment for a man wanted in connection with an armed robbery in Winder did not find the suspect, but discovered bags of drugs inside the home.The...
View ArticleFour arrested in Bethel Midtown Village donnybrook
Athens-Clarke police Thursday night arrested four people involved in a large fight at Bethel Midtown Village.The brawl started after one man bumped into another and they began to fight, but things...
View ArticleMotorist arrested for ghost-riding in downtown Athens
An officer arrested a man late Thursday night after he got out of his moving car in downtown Athens, danced in the street, then jumped back into the vehicle, Athens-Clarke police said.Nicolas Cervini,...
View ArticlePolice seek more suspects in eastside Athens burglary
Athens-Clarke believe more suspects than the three already arrested were involved in an Eastside burglary this month in which several guns were stolen and then fired at an apartment complex.No one was...
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