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News update, June 26

Suspect leads fugitive squad on high-speed chase A suspect led the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Squad on a high-speed chase down I -20 June 25. Royce Cross, who is wanted for theft by taking, failure to appear, violating his probati...

DeKalb Police looking for men in iPhone theft

DeKalb County Police Department is looking for two men who stole an iPhone 4 from a Chick-fil-A counter June 7. According to a media release, the men entered the restaurant at 3967 Lavista Road at approximately 8:30 a.m. Once inside, one of...

News update, June 22

Dunwoody Police searching for murder suspect The Dunwoody Police Department is investigating a homicide that occurred at the Peachtree Place Apartments at 4612-B Peachtree Place Parkway just after midnight on the morning of June 22. The vic...

News update, June 21

Dunwoody police seek assistance identifying larceny suspects The Dunwoody Police Department is seeking assistance identifying two suspects involved in a theft June 2 at a Zales jewelry store at 4400 Ashford Dunwoody Parkway in Dunwoody. The susp...

Man and child found dead in car during house fire

Two people were found dead in a vehicle on the evening of June 19 when the DeKalb County Fire Rescue Department responded to a house fire near Lithonia. The identities have not been released of an adult and a child—both male—who were found in the...

Atlanta Police officer arrested for DUI in DeKalb

                Atlanta Police officer Jarvis Farley was arrested by DeKalb County Police at approximately 2:50 a.m. on May 25 under suspicion of drunken driving after he was observed driving a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro 128 miles an hour o...

Crime update, June 14

Man arrested after taking stolen gun to funeral A Decatur man was arrested June 12 when he took a stolen gun to the memorial service of a shooting victim. The gun had been stolen last year from the county district attorney’s evidence storage f...

Two killed in shooting at funeral

DeKalb County Police have identified the two men who died following a shooting June 7 during a funeral held at Victory for the World Church in Stone Mountain. DeKalb County Public Safety Director William Miller said that Delmetrius Heard, 28, and Car...

News update, June 8

Woman dies in Decatur house fire Responding to a fire in the early hours of June 8, DeKalb County Fire Rescue found an elderly woman unconscious and unresponsive inside the house on Terratim Place in Decatur. The woman was transported to Grady Memo...

Shots ring out at Stone Mountain funeral service: two confirmed dead

Two confirmed deaths are a result of a shooting that occurred June 7 during a funeral service held at Victory for the World Church in Stone Mountain. Rev. Kenneth Samuel said he had just finished the last rites of 19-year-old Ryan Guider when shots r...

DA’s office addresses child exploitation issues

  According to statistics, it won’t take long before a female runaway is approached by a sexual predator, DeKalb County Assistant District Attorney Dalia Racine said. Racine, who focuses on the sexual exploitation of children and human trafficking...

News update, June 7

Suspicious person alert The DeKalb County Police Department has issued an alert for a suspicious person after a 5-year-old girl said a stranger attempted to entice her. Police said June 5, at approximately 4 p.m., a child was walking near her home by...

News update, June 6

Students stabbed at Columbia High School Three students were arrested in connection with a stabbing at Columbia High School June 5, according to a DeKalb County School District spokesman. The incident happened in the parking lot of the scho...

News update, June 5

Driver faces multiple charges, including DUI, after daughter dies in crash A driver on Highway 78 has been charged with DUI, vehicular homicide in the first degree and failure to maintain a lane following an accident in which his 15-year-old dau...

News update, June 4

Underage alcohol sting nets 47 arrests A four-day underage alcohol sting by the DeKalb County Police Department called Operation School’s Out produced 47 arrests, according to police spokeswoman Mekka Parish. Those arrested were charged with f...

Family of murdered man sues widow

Andrea Sniderman, the widow of Rusty Sneiderman, who was killed outside a Dunwoody day care facility in November 2010, is being sued by her former brother-in-law. Steven Sneiderman, the sole surviving sibling of Rusty Sneiderman, filed the suit on be...

News update, May 30

Man to serve 25 years for murder of 11-year-old A Chamblee man was sentenced to serve 25 years in prison for the 2010 murder of an 11-year-old boy. Alexander Sidloskas, who was 19 at the time of the shooting, was sentenced to 50 years, with...

Supreme Court reverses murder conviction

The Supreme Court of Georgia has reversed the murder conviction and life prison sentence given to a man for shooting and killing a man he said he believed had been molesting his niece. In a unanimous opinion May 29, Justice Hugh Thompson wrote t...

News update, May 29

Police sergeant arrested, charged with interfering with investigation A DeKalb police sergeant has been arrest and charged with interfering with a police investigation. The DeKalb Police Major Felony Unit was investigating a reported case o...

Middle school teacher indicted on sex charges

A DeKalb County grand jury on May 24 indicted a Tucker Middle School teacher on 22 counts, including child molestation, statutory rape and sexual battery. Almarcus Thomas is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl while she was a student at Tucker ...

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