Macon-Bibb County

Bibb County grand jurors indicted a Macon man Tuesday in two cases on allegations he molested three girls – all aged 11 and younger – and raped one of them. Kenneth Cornell Mathis Sr., 49, is charged with rape, child molestation and criminal attempt to commit a felony stemming from alleged incidents in 2009 and […]

Crawford County High School student Jokester “J.C.” Ussery, 17, was charged with terroristic threats Tuesday on allegations he threatened to shoot up the school Feb. 14. The incident was brought to the attention of the Roberta Police Department today. The school was closed Friday and Monday for the Presidents’ Day holiday. Ussery did not attend […]

Fort Valley – Peach County jurors deliberated for nearly three hours Monday before finding an owner of a now-shuttered Byron restaurant guilty of commercial gambling, possession of a gambling device or equipment and keeping a gambling place. A trial began for Ronald D. Bartlett, 73, on Feb. 12. Bartlett, owner of the now-shuttered Captain Jack’s […]

Macon — Logan Riley Nettles, 19, was arrested Tuesday on a bench warrant requested by Chief Assistant District Attorney Nancy Scott Malcor after he failed to appear in court on Monday for a hearing on a motion to revoke his bond. His aggravated assault – family violence charge is still pending. For more news from the District […]

Macon – Bibb County grand jurors indicted Trayvion Lamonte Burney and Anterrio Tremaine Stinson Tuesday in the Halloween 2017 fatal shooting of 38-year-old Jackie Rouse on Dennis Street in east Macon. Burney, 23, and Stinson, 25, both of Macon, also are accused of shooting a second man, Quincy Emory, who survived his wounds. Tuesday’s indictment […]

Macon – Two men each were sentenced to seven years, five of them in prison, on Tuesday after they pleaded guilty to going to a local motel to meet underaged girls for sex in March 2015. Chadwick Preston Cagle, 42, of Kathleen, and James Anthony Howard, 26, of Macon, each pleaded guilty to criminal attempt […]

Macon – A Macon man was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison Tuesday, a little more than two weeks after a Bibb County jury found him guilty of kidnapping a woman in 2015. Steve Anthony Fort, 22, was convicted in a jury trial of forcing a woman to drive him away from Macon’s Pendleton […]

Macon – After being briefed on the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office investigation into the 2017 fatal shooting of 25-year-old Emmanuel Lee Stroud Jr., The Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office has ruled the shooting justified. No criminal charges will be filed. Bibb County deputies responded to a report of a person shot in the road […]

Macon – Jurors deliberated less than an hour Friday before finding a Macon man guilty of rape following a trial in Bibb County Superior Court. David Lee Davis, 25, will be sentenced at a later date. Prosecutors Shelley Milton and Jonathan Gordon presented evidence during the trial showing Davis forced a then-21-year-old woman to have […]

Macon – A former employee of a non-profit Macon youth program pleaded guilty to 70 counts of theft by taking on Thursday. Phyllis Denise Wallace, 45, of Lizella was sentenced to serve 15 years, three of them in prison. She also must pay $56,860 restitution to the Motivating Youth Foundation. If the case had gone […]