One APD Officer Among 10 Metro Area Officers Arrested for Protecting Drug Dealers — Buckhead Patch
United States Attorney Sally Yates held a news conference Tuesday afternoon to inform citizens about 10 metro Atlanta officers who were arrested for their alleged involvement in protecting presumed cocaine traffickers.
According to U.S. Attorney Yates, the charges, "arose out of an ATF investigation of an Atlanta area street gang in August 2011." It was in 2011, she said, that "ATF agents learned from an individual associated with the gang that police officers were involved in protecting the gang’s criminal operations, including drug trafficking crimes."
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'Vampire Diaries' Scheduled to Film in Stone Mountain City on Thursday — Stone Mountain Patch
The CW television show 'Vampire Diaries' is set to film in the city of Stone Mountain on Valentine's Day (Thursday, Feb.14) and extras -- specifically, "new faces" covering a wide-ranging age group -- are needed.
The Stone Mountain city council recently approved a filming location agreement with Bonanza Productions, which makes the show.
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Authorities Searching Lake Lanier for Missing Man — Cumming Patch
A multiagency search of Lake Lanier and surrounding shorelines is under way for a 47-year-old man missing in what appears to be a single boat accident, according to officials with the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office and Georgia Department of Natural Resources.
At about 9:48 p.m. Monday, DNR was called to investigate an unmanned 15-foot jon boat that was circling an area of the lake near Bald Ridge Creek at big rock. When authorities arrived they found the boat on a bank and out of gas.
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Arrest Made in January Coin Laundry Shooting — East Atlanta Patch
The Atlanta Police Department's Homicide Investigation Unit said Tuesday they apprehended a suspected gunman they link to a brazen Old Fourth Ward shootout that occurred on Jan. 14, 2013 outside of a coin laundromat at 628 Boulevard near the North Avenue intersection.
According to police, Marcus Morris, 22, was arrested Monday on warrants for murder and aggravated assault.
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— Johns Creek Patch
A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to 220 years in prison for the rape and child molestation of a 3-year-old girl.
Johns Creek Police Detective B.K. Lyles led the initial investigation into the incidents, which occurred in July 2011.
Jason Jerome Hambrick was convicted in a jury trial that ended Friday, Feb. 8, according to Fulton County District Attorney Paul L. Howard Jr. Hambrick was also charged with cruelty to children in the first degree in connection with his sex crimes against a 3-year-old child in his care.
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