Macon-Bibb County

Macon — Bibb County grand jurors indicted a 19-year-old Macon man Tuesday in the Oct. 19 shooting death of Jayvon Sherman. Wesley Jamison Holt is charged with malice murder, aggravated assault, felony murder and violating Georgia’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act. The indictment, filed Tuesday in Bibb County Superior Court, alleges Holt was associated […]

Macon – A man accused of driving the getaway car in an August 2016 Macon Pizza Hut robbery pleaded guilty Wednesday to robbery by force. Quayshaun Varqui Adams, 25, was sentenced to 15 years, eight of them in prison, during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court. If the case had gone to trial, Prosecutor […]

Macon – A man shot last year after being found unlawfully inside his ex-girlfriend’s south Bibb County home pleaded guilty Wednesday to burglary and was sentenced to 10 years, three of them in prison. If the case had gone to trial, prosecutor David Rhoden would have presented evidence showing: Blake Elliot Herman, 35, of Macon, […]

Macon – Macon-Bibb County Commissioners voted Tuesday to accept a $101,341 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) continuation award and a $72,962 grant to help fund the Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office’s victim advocate programs. VOCA funds will be used to continue to fund two existing positions while the grant will allow the district attorney’s […]

Macon — Bibb County grand jurors indicted a Macon man Tuesday on allegations he started a fire at a home on New Clinton Road Oct. 7, 2017, with the intent to murder a man inside. Rodney Kevin Curry, 46, is charged with arson in the first degree and aggravated assault, according to an indictment filed […]

Macon — Bibb County grand jurors indicted a 44-year-old Macon man Tuesday on rape and other charges stemming from allegations he assaulted a woman Sept. 17, 2017. Moses Dewayne Hall is accused of striking a woman with a board with a nail in it, stomping and kicking the woman and raping her, according to an […]

Macon – A Bibb County Superior Court judge sentenced a 25-year-old Macon man to 20 years, 10 of them in prison, Monday in connection with a 2016 robbery at GameStop on Presidential Parkway in Macon. Derrick Dwayne Lamb was found guilty of armed robbery and aggravated assault in a Nov. 8 bench trial. Prosecutor Neil […]

Macon — Bibb County grand jurors indicted a Macon man Tuesday on allegations he burglarized multiple local businesses between Jan. 26 and Aug. 19, 2017. Bennie Willis III, 39, is charged with 14 counts of burglary in the second degree relating to break-ins at six Macon Family Dollar stores, the Dairy Queen on Log Cabin Drive, […]

Macon —  Bibb County grand jurors indicted a state prison inmate Tuesday on allegations he exposed his genitals, inappropriately touched a prison staffer and prevented the staffer from leaving a room. Romel Smith, 38, an inmate at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, was being held at Central State Prison in Macon on Aug. 11, 2017, […]

Macon – Grand jurors indicted a former Bibb County deputy Tuesday on charges of aggravated assault and violation of oath by a public officer. Albert James Jordan, 52, is accused of unlawfully pointing a gun at a man at the Citgo on Rocky Creek Road on Aug. 19, 2017. An indictment is a charging document issued […]