Chicken innards spill cleared, Jefferson Road fully re-opened
A portion of Jefferson Road had to be temporarily closed on Monday to remove chicken innards that leaked from a truck and splattered onto a northbound lane.The slick trail of viscera had stretched from...
View ArticleFormer UGA employee, undergrad charged with stealing hundreds of textbooks...
A former University of Georgia employee and a student have been charged with stealing hundreds of textbooks.UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said that in the unrelated cases the suspects stole a total...
View ArticleMan indicted for alleged rape of Athens teen
A Clarke County grand jury recently indicted a 24-year-old man on charges he raped an Athens teen more than a year ago.Marvin C. Sims of Old Hull Road was charged with rape and two counts each of...
View ArticleAthens man indicted for choking girlfriend during alleged assault
A Clarke County grand jury recently indicted an Athens man who allegedly choked his girlfriend last year during an assault that was stopped when a witness beat him with a broom.Danny Lamar White Jr.,...
View ArticleMan who allegedly struck Athens parking enforcement officer indicted
Evan Andrew Beale, 27, of Snapfinger Drive, was charged with aggravated assault, according to the indictment filed last week in Clarke County Superior Court.The alleged incident happened Sept. 26,...
View ArticleAthens cops filmed for CMT reality show responding to report of dancing naked...
A pair of Athens-Clarke County police officers this week made an unexpected appearance in a television show that was being filmed in downtown Athens.One of the officers responded Monday evening to...
View ArticleAuthorities round up nearly a dozen criminal suspects in Athens sweep
Authorities on Tuesday rounded up nearly a dozen criminal suspects during a sweep of Athens that sought out people with outstanding arrest warrants.Most of those taken into custody were wanted for...
View ArticleAthens police issue lookout, offer reward for Popeye's armed robbery suspect
Athens-Clarke County police have issued a lookout for one of two gunmen who robbed a Prince Avenue restaurant last week, pistol-whipping the manager and forcing him into a freezer.Police also announced...
View ArticleAthens teen arrested for robbery 2 months after release from prison
Authorities arrested on Thursday an Athens teen on armed robbery and aggravated assault charges, two months after he was released from prison for previous robbery and assault convictions.Athens-Clarke...
View ArticleFormer CVS employee indicted for robbing Alps Road store
A Clarke County grand jury recently indicted a former employee of the CVS on Alps Road in connection with an armed robbery of the store last month.Alan Darryl Long, 31, was charged with armed robbery,...
View ArticleArmed bandit robs Athens sex shop
Athens-Clarke Country police said Friday they were investigating an armed robbery at an eastside sex shop.Officers responded at about 1:30 a.m. to the reported robbery at Elations, a store at 4100...
View ArticleAthens police warn residents of arrest warrant and jury duty telephone scams
A 66-year-old Athens woman on Wednesday received a call from a man who identified himself as Sgt. Brandon Yarbrough with “Clarke County Police” and informed her he had important information he needed...
View ArticleCourt records reveal lurid details in Athens man's child molestation and...
A recently-filed indictment and other court documents reveal disturbing details of an Athens man accused of sexually exploiting children.Joshua Dale Aiken has been in jail since June 17, the day...
View ArticleSgt. Ben Dickerson: Former detective supervising officers on patrol
Ben Dickerson spent nearly half of his career with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department’s Sex Crimes Unit where he investigated many assaults on young children.He did not appreciate how much of...
View ArticleGSP troopers getting ready to enforce 'slowpoke' law
Corporal Tracy Webb on Thursday monitored traffic on the Athens Perimeter from an overpass and radioed instructions to Georgia State Patrol troopers posted nearby to pull over certain motorists.But...
View ArticleEx-con arrested for firing gun through window of Athens home initially blames...
Police said they arrested a 61-year-old man Saturday after he shot a gun out the window of a home in northeast Athens-Clarke County because he thought some men were trying to break in.Officers found no...
View ArticleMental health evaluation requested for woman accused of raping 10-year-old...
An attorney representing a woman charged along with her boyfriend with the alleged rape last year of a 10-year-old Athens boy has asked that his client undergo a mental health evaluation, according to...
View ArticleMan arrested for rape in Athens also suspected of vandalizing student housing...
A 27-year-old North Carolina man arrested Sunday for the alleged rape of a woman at her home in Athens also is suspected of causing thousands of dollars in damage at a local student housing complex,...
View ArticleBLOG: Will Georgia's 'Slow Poke' law withstand challenge on appeal?
I can understand the thinking behind the so-called Slow Poke law that took effect July 1.A single, slower-moving vehicle on a multilane highway can cause long back-ups and even lead to road rage among...
View ArticleTwo arrests made amid rash of thefts from vehicles in Athens
Athens-Clarke County police said they arrested two men on Monday for stealing a cellphone from a car parked at a northside convenience store.There has been a recent rash of thefts from vehicles, but it...
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