Macon-Bibb County

Macon – After 39 years, DNA testing has confirmed that DNA from an unidentified person buried in a pauper’s grave in Macon’s Evergreen Cemetery matches DNA of Andrew Jackson Greer, a 15-year-old boy who went missing in Michigan in 1979. The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office, GBI, National Center for […]

Macon – A Macon man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday after he pleaded guilty to three July 15, 2017, armed robberies. Antonio Dewayne Ivey Sr., 33, entered his plea to three counts of armed robbery during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court. He will not be eligible for parole. If the […]

Macon – A Macon woman was sentenced to 15 years, five of them in prison, Friday after she pleaded guilty to taking an elderly woman’s purse in a Walmart parking lot last summer. Cora Lee Trice, 53, pleaded guilty to robbery by sudden snatching during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court. The plea was […]

Bibb County jurors found a 41-year-old Macon gang member guilty of murder Wednesday in the 2017 fatal shooting of a rival gang’s leader. Calvin Stapleton was convicted on charges of malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault. A judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibly of parole Wednesday afternoon. Prosecutors John Regan […]

Macon – Bibb County jurors deliberated for about an hour Wednesday afternoon before finding a Macon man guilty of molesting two 6-year-olds between May 2015 and May 2016. Tommy Barzella Tinsley, 52, was convicted of two counts of cruelty to children in the first degree, two counts of aggravated child molestation and three counts of […]

Macon – A Macon man was sentenced to 15 years, eight of them in prison, Thursday afternoon in connection with a 2017 shooting on Hawkinsville Avenue. Kevin Tremaine Johnson, 30, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault during a hearing in Bibb County Superior Court. If the case had gone to trial, prosecutor Sandra Matson would have […]

Macon – A woman was sentenced to a dozen years in prison Thursday after she pleaded guilty her part in the 2015 molestation of a preteen girl. After her release from prison, 36-year-old Latalia Santoria Hutchings must serve eight years on probation with sex offender conditions. She also must register as a sex offender. Hutchings […]

Macon – A new juvenile justice initiative will be in place Aug. 1 when students begin classes in Bibb County public schools. Representatives from several Bibb County offices and state agencies signed the Macon-Bibb County School-Justice Partnership Agreement Tuesday, agreeing to handle specific “Focused Act” offenses that typically are seen in schools outside the traditional court […]

Macon – Bibb County grand jurors indicted defendants in two Macon murder cases Tuesday: Jaquavius Terrion Moore and Malcolm Bernard Peek, both 17 and of Macon, are each charged with malice murder and felony murder in the June 18, 2017, fatal shooting of 57-year-old Emanuel Stroud Sr. Tirell Darnell Mitchell, 26, of Macon, is charged […]

Macon – A Macon man pleaded guilty to armed robbery Thursday in a Jan. 10, 2017, home invasion in north Macon’s Barrington Hall subdivision. Quatrell Jamar Spearman, 21, was sentenced to 20 years, 13 of them in prison, as part of a plea agreement. If the case had gone to trial, prosecutor John Regan would […]