Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney David Cooke gave the following statement at a news conference Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018: On the night of Sunday, November 6, 2016, I was at home with my family when I received one of the worst phone calls of my career. It was one of the worst phone calls of […]
Fort Valley – The Byron man who fatally shot two Peach County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Nov. 6, 2016, pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and additional charges. Ralph Stanley Elrod Jr., 59, was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life without the possibility of parole plus an additional 100 years in prison. He pleaded guilty […]
Macon – An Illinois woman pleaded guilty to armed robbery Wednesday for her part in a Jan. 10, 2017, home invasion in north Macon’s Barrington Hall subdivision. Jasmine Byrd, 23, was sentenced to 20 years, 13 of them in prison without the possibility of parole, as part of a plea agreement. If the case had […]
Macon – A 20-year-old Macon man pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon to his part in a series of 2017 armed robberies at local restaurants, motels and retail stores. Deiondre Khalill Howard pleaded guilty to two counts of armed robbery and one count of aggravated assault during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court. He was sentenced […]
Macon – A Macon man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday for his part in a robbery that resulted in the victim needing to be rescued from the trunk of his own car. Raul Alejandro Sanchez-Gonzalez, 29, pleaded guilty to armed robbery and kidnapping during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court. Sanchez-Gonzalez, […]
Macon – Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney David Cooke announced Tuesday his office’s donation of $52,000 as seed money for The Family Counseling Center of Central Georgia’s 2018-2019 fundraising drive. Established by the Junior League of Macon and United Way of Central Georgia in 1957, The Family Counseling Center is a non-profit agency that provides […]
Macon – A Montezuma man was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years on Friday after he pleaded guilty to murder and a string of charges relating to a January 2018 Macon crime spree. Quentin James Sanders, 42, won’t be eligible for parole for at least 50 years. Sanders pleaded guilty to malice murder, […]
Macon – Bibb County jurors found a Macon man guilty of murder Friday in the 2016 fatal shooting of Darin Vashawn Brewster outside Club Dreams in downtown Macon. Quentin Mccorey Jackson, 34, was found guilty of malice murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of violating the Georgia Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act […]
Macon – Bibb County jurors deliberated for about 90 minutes on Thursday before finding a former Monroe County church youth group leader guilty of four counts of child molestation and two counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes. Jack Lance Hutcheson, 34, was sentenced to serve 60 years, 25 of them in prison, following […]
Macon – A Macon man was sentenced to prison Wednesday, a day after Bibb County jurors found him guilty of using another man’s identity to set up cable and satellite TV accounts in 2016. William Eugene West IV, 39, was found guilty of two counts of identity fraud following a trial in Bibb County Superior […]
