Macon-Bibb County

Macon – A 61-year-old Warner Robins man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years, five of them in prison, after pleading guilty this summer to sending sexually explicit emails attempting to solicit sex with a person he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Timothy Charles Strickland pleaded guilty July 5 in Bibb County Superior Court to […]

Macon – An 18-year-old Macon man pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to his part in a July 13, 2016, holdup outside a Macon Starbucks. Malik Antwan Thornton pleaded guilty to armed robbery and a Bibb County Superior Court Judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison followed by 10 years on probation. If the case had […]

Fort Valley – A 22-year-old Alabama man was indicted Tuesday in connection with his father’s July 11, 2017, shooting death on Interstate 75 as the family was traveling through Peach County on their way home from a Florida vacation. Deontae Leqwan Young, of Birmingham, is charged with murder in the death of 40-year-old Daniel Lee […]

Macon – A Warner Robins man pleaded guilty Wednesday to 34 counts of sexual exploitation of children and one count of electronically furnishing obscene material to minors. Accepting a joint recommendation from the prosecution and defense, a Bibb County Superior Court judge sentenced 52-year-old Stephen Christopher Garrard to 20 years, eight of them in prison. […]

Macon – A 30-year-old man who threatened employees at Eagle Gun Range in 2014 pleaded no contest Tuesday to four counts of simple assault. A trial was set to begin Tuesday for Kinnan Ghali. Ghali was indicted in 2015 on four counts of terroristic threats. If the case had gone to trial, prosecutors would have […]

Macon — Bibb County grand jurors indicted a Lizella man Tuesday on allegations stemming from an alleged threat made during a complaint to the Macon Water Authority on Oct. 5, 2017. Joseph May, 72, is accused of alluding to the recent Las Vegas massacre during the call and saying, “I ought to just go out there […]

Macon — Bibb County grand jurors indicted a Macon doctor Tuesday on charges of fraud in obtaining a controlled substance and attempt to violate the Georgia Controlled Substance Act. Charles Oyakhilomen Ebhohimen, 54, is accused of unlawfully obtaining testosterone cyprionate, a Schedule III controlled substance, from the Publix Pharmacy on Bowman Road June 7, 2016, by […]

Macon — Bibb County grand jurors indicted two Macon men Tuesday in separate cases on allegations they raped young girls. Javon Causey, 22, is charged with two counts each of rape, aggravated child molestation and statutory rape stemming from allegations he engaged in sex acts with a 12-year-old girl and forced her to have sex […]

Macon — Bibb County grand jurors have indicted two women in connection with a 2016 traffic crash that resulted in the death of a Lizella man. Brenda Jeanette Wilder, 33, of Macon, and Dawn Williams, 52, of Forsyth, are charged with homicide by vehicle in the first degree and driving under the influence stemming from […]

Macon – A Macon man pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon to criminal attempt to commit a felony stemming from his attempt to rob Subway, 1433 Eisenhower Parkway, last December. Michael Dewayne Easley, 38, was sentenced to 25 years, 10 of them in prison. His plea hearing was held in Bibb County Superior Court. A Subway employee […]