District Attorney’s Office staff to undergo Implicit Bias training

February 19, 2020

Macon – An expert from the National Training Institute on Race & Equality will provide Implicit Bias training to the Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office’s staff this fall, District Attorney David Cooke announced Wednesday. Implicit Bias is an unconscious bias held toward a specific group of people. By attending this mandatory training, staff members…

Man sentenced to life without parole in 2018 Super Bowl Sunday murder

February 7, 2020

Macon – Jurors deliberated for a little more than an hour on Friday before finding a Jones County man guilty of fatally shooting 33-year-old Javaris Antoine Brown near the intersection of Carling and Napier avenues on Super Bowl Sunday 2018. Keith Beddingfield Jr., 27, of Gray, was found guilty of malice murder, felony murder and…

Man sentenced to prison in two Macon robberies

January 29, 2020

Macon – A man was sentenced to prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to robbing two Macon businesses at gunpoint. Dion Khalil Vanzie, 22, of Macon, pleaded guilty to two counts of armed robbery. He was sentenced to serve 20 years for each robbery. The first 15 years on each must be served in prison…

Man sentenced to prison for sex with underage girl

January 28, 2020

Macon – A 40-year-old Macon man was sentenced to prison Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to having sex with an underage girl. A trial had been set to begin Tuesday for Jermaine Antonio Howard. Howard instead pleaded guilty to statutory rape, five counts of child molestation and one count of terroristic threats as part of…

Man sentenced to prison in Macon molestation case

December 3, 2019

Macon – A 40-year-old Macon man was sentenced to prison Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to molesting a then-15-year-old girl in 2018. Andres Marcos pleaded guilty to two counts of child molestation and one count of another sex-related crime pursuant to a plea agreement. A Bibb County Superior Court judge sentenced him to serve 40…

Man sentenced to life plus 50 years in Macon rape, attempted rape committed days after his release from prison

November 15, 2019

Macon – A Macon man was sentenced to prison Friday after Bibb County jurors found him guilty of raping one woman in February 2018 just hours after he attempted to rape another woman. A trial began Tuesday for Jamal Chris Rowe, 30, in Bibb County Superior Court. Jurors deliberated for a little more than an…

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