Money from criminal activity transformed into services for crime victims with DA’s Office donation

August 28, 2018

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…

Man sentenced to life plus 20 years in Macon murder, crime spree

August 24, 2018

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,…

Man sentenced to prison in 2016 fatal shooting outside downtown nightclub

August 17, 2018

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…

Church youth leader sentenced to 60 years in Bibb molestation case

August 16, 2018

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…

Man who used fraudulent identity to get cable TV sentenced to prison

August 15, 2018

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…

DNA confirms missing Michigan teen is ‘John Doe’ buried in Macon

August 14, 2018

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…

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