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Escapee caught in closet By Elizabeth Billips lizbillips@yahoo.com Burke County deputies nabbed an escaped prisoner who was hiding in a hall closet. Last Monday, they arrested Gabriel Cle Scott, 27, inside a home on River Road. Glennville authorities had been looking for him since July 5 when he fled from a transitional center there. More ... Man gets 20 years for child molestation By Anne Marie Kyzer annemariek@thetruecitizen.com A Girard man was sent to prison for abusing his stepdaughter and infecting her with a sexually-transmitted disease in the process. James Lewis Wright, 28, pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge Carl C. Brown last Wednesday to three counts of child molestation. Judge Brown handed Wright a 15- ... More ... Shoplifter sentenced for stabbing By Anne Marie Kyzer annemariek@thetruecitizen.com A woman who sliced a good Samaritan trying to stop her from shoplifting will spend the next five years behind bars. Mary Crumbley, 48, entered guilty pleas to charges of aggravated assault and theft by shoplifting when she appeared before Superior Court Judge Carl C. Brown last Wednesday. More ...
Waynesboro police have released security photographs of the Sept.11 armed robbery at Best Western. The masked robbers held two pregnant clerks at gunpoint before fleeing with cash from the safe. Anyone with any information is asked to call investigators at 706-554-8029 or leave an anonymous message ... More ... Waynesboro Police The following arrests and citations were reported by the Waynesboro Police Department for the past week: Monday, Sept. 22 • Denise Lashelle Maloyd, 19, of 58 Magnolia Acres, Waynesboro, was arrested for cruelty to children in the third degree, simple battery and criminal trespass. A $3,90... More ... Burke County Sheriff The following arrests and citations were reported by the Burke County Sheriff's Office for the past week: Wednesday, Sept. 17 • Richard Lamont Miller, 20, of 4411 Mims Road, Hephzibah, was arrested for burglary. • Wade Hampton Skinner Jr., 23, of 1445 Bates Road, Waynesboro, was ar... More ... Hinesville woman injured in wreck A wreck near the board of education office last Wednesday afternoon sent one Hinesville woman to the Eisenhower Medical Center. More ...
Judge Preston Lewis Jr. was sworn in for another four years on the Juvenile Court bench. This marks Judge Lewis' second term as a juvenile court judge in the Augusta Judicial Circuit. Lewis took the oath of office Monday at the Burke County Court House before Superior Court Judge J. Carlisle Overstr... More ... From the Blotter Trouble in high places Sonic Drive-in had problems in high places. Last Thursday, an Augusta trucker tried to clear the eatery's awning, but didn't quite make it. According to the police report, he hit the awning that attaches to the building and drive-thru window. More ... |
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