Macon-Bibb County

District Attorney Media Releases

District Attorney Media Releases

  • Man sentenced to 20 years in armed robbery of Macon student
    Macon – Jurors deliberated for less than two hours Thursday before finding a man guilty of armed robbery in a 2016 attack on a Macon high school student as he walked to catch a bus to school. Michael Jewroid Mitchell Jr., 21, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and eight years on probation. The […]

    March 22, 2018 published by mbit

  • Teen charged in home invasion robberies, burglaries sentenced to 20 years
    Macon – A Macon teenager charged in a string of burglaries and two home invasion robberies was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years, 12 of them in prison. Artez Maloy, 16, pleaded guilty to home invasion, false imprisonment and burglary during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court. If the case had gone to trial, prosecutor […]

    March 21, 2018 published by mbit

  • Byron restaurant owner sentenced to prison in gambling case
    Fort Valley – A judge sentenced the owner of a now-shuttered Byron restaurant to five years, two of them in prison, Wednesday morning. The sentencing came about a month after Peach County jurors found 73-year-old Ronald D. Bartlett guilty of commercial gambling, possession of a gambling device or equipment and keeping a gambling place. Bartlett […]

    March 21, 2018 published by mbit

  • Macon man pleads guilty in 2015 shooting death
    Macon – A 21-year-old Macon man was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday in the 2015 fatal shooting of Vernard Mays, a Bibb County Sheriff’s Office civil clerk. As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors, Michael Dewayne Hardy Jr. pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and violating Georgia’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act. […]

    March 20, 2018 published by mbit

  • Man indicted in Macon murder, crimes near Mercer campuses
    Macon – Bibb County grand jurors indicted a man Tuesday in the January 2018 fatal shooting of a Macon woman and a string of crimes near Mercer University’s main and law school campuses. Quentin James Sanders, 41, of Montezuma, is charged with malice murder and two counts of aggravated assault in the Jan. 8, 2018, […]

    March 20, 2018 published by mbit

  • Man sentenced to five years in puppy’s death
    Macon – A Macon man who brutally killed a puppy in 2015 was sentenced Monday to three years in prison followed by two years on probation. Derrick Dewayne Chappell Jr., 25, pleaded guilty to aggravated cruelty to animals during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court. Chappell, who was sentenced as a first offender, is […]

    March 19, 2018 published by mbit

  • Macon man sentenced to 25 years in 2015 shooting death
    Macon – A Macon man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the June 6, 2015, shooting death of William Ford on Highland Avenue. Andre Lucas, 41, also pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Convicted on a cocaine possession charge in […]

    March 15, 2018 published by mbit

  • Punching Bibb deputy costs Wisconsin man two years in prison
    Macon – A Wisconsin man was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday after he pleaded guilty to repeatedly punching a Bibb County deputy last year while refusing to get off a Greyhound bus. Dameko Marsa Hollis Jr., 24, of Milwaukee, pleaded guilty to obstruction of an officer during a hearing in Bibb County Superior […]

    March 15, 2018 published by mbit

  • Macon man sentenced to 20 years in statutory rape of 13-year-old girl
    Macon – A 47-year-old Macon man was sentenced to 20 years, 15 of them in prison, on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to forcing a 13-year-old girl to have sex in 2016. Robert Lee Jackson pleaded guilty to statutory rape and sexual battery against a child under 16 during a hearing in Bibb County Superior […]

    March 15, 2018 published by mbit

  • Three indicted in 2017 fatal shooting
    Macon – Bibb County grand jurors indicted two men and a woman Tuesday in the Dec. 18, 2017, fatal shooting of 20-year-old Keenan Guice at Cobblestone Square Apartments on Riley Avenue. Demarcus Colson, 25, Deangelo Dewayne Davis, 33, and Markeysia Odeshia Milligan, 22, all of Macon, are each charged with felony murder and three counts […]

    March 13, 2018 published by mbit

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