Javoyne Hicks White has been sworn in as the acting DeKalb County, Georgia district attorney. She assumed the job on Sept. 3, 2010. “I look forward to serving as acting district attorney,” said Hicks W...
A DeKalb County, Georgia jury has convicted Craig Armstead, age 39, for the June 2008 murder of DeKalb County resident Keri Harris. She was a co-worker of Armstead when they both worked at the Cargill Food Processing Com...
The question of who murdered Alpha Lorenzo Booker, age 31, has been answered due to the expert legal skills and persistence of Jill Polster, a DeKalb County assistant district attorney and a team of dedicated DeKa...
Using racketeering practices to commit fraud from 2005 through 2007 has earned Stephaan Brown a sentence of 10 years to serve seven years in prison after being successfully prosecuted by the DeKalb County District Attorne...
The Georgia Gang Investigators Association, www.ggia.net, recently honored the pivotal role DeKalb County District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming, www.dekalbda.org, played in preventing the growth of and prosecuting criminal...
Vincent Barber, a defendant on trial for a series of sex-related felonies and who fled during his trial on July 15, was found guilty and sentenced on July 19 in absentia to life without parole, 20 years for statutory rap...
DeKalb County District Attorney Gwen Keyes Fleming is the most recent recipient of the Leah Ward Sears Award of Distinction, an honor given by the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys (GABWA).
Keyes Fl...
During their year-long deferral from Atlanta-based AMLAW 100’s Alston + Bird Erica Williamson and Bennett Bryan participated in 11 felony jury trials. Bryan will report to Alston + Bird with six jury trials to his credit...
A series of workshops that will inform DeKalb County residents living in the city of Atlanta about the many ways crime is fought, prevented and solved happens on Saturday, June 26 at Charles R. Drew Charter School. The sch...
Eusebio Sanchez, age 25 of DeKalb County, pled guilty to felony murder and aggravated assault on June 14 even before jury selection started. The plea was unusual because in DeKalb County defendants rarely enter a guilty ple...
Life in prison was the sentence on June 11, 2010 for convicted murderer Derrick Heard. The conviction of malice murder and felony murder was not particularly unusual until you take into account that the murder happened in ...
Prosecuting people who commit crimes and who are also members of criminal street gangs is now easier because House Bill 1015 has been signed into law by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue. HB 1015 received overwhelming support in th...
A DeKalb County man was convicted on May 19 to 35 years in prison having been found guilty of one count of rape plus two counts of child molestation, two counts of aggravated child molestation and one count of false impris...
Two homeowners in Tucker, Georgia received justice from a DeKalb County jury with the conviction and sentencing of Sidney Ross for breaking into their home during March 2009. Ross was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Apr...
A man proven to have taken advantage of elderly DeKalb County citizens has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. He entered a guilty plea the morning his trial was set to begin. He will be incarcerated for seven years and ...
One of DeKalb County’s apprentice attorneys convinced a jury on April 27 to convict James Jones of identity fraud. He was sentenced on the same day to 10 years in prison of which he must serve eight years. Although there w...
One man and one woman have been sentenced to prison for a series of armed robberies and aggravated assaults that occurred at three separate apartment complexes in Stone Mountain, GA. There were four victims in the crimes t...
A malice murder conviction earned by the Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault Unit and upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court happens due to the expert legal skills of the Appeals Unit. The victory is reported on by Canwest, a C...
Eric Rogers, 48, a former DeKalb County resident, was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life in prison on April 1 for killing two persons even though only one body has been found. A conviction for two murders when only...
A DeKalb County grand jury on March 30 returned a true bill of indictment against Dennis Ronald Allaben, 46, in the death of his wife Maureen Allaben, 43, in early January 2010.
He is charged with three counts: malic...
Thirty-year-old DeKalb County resident Kenneth Trusty is going to prison having been sentenced on March 25 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for committing several felonies. The crimes included rape, aggr...
A DeKalb County grand jury on March 16 returned a true bill of indictment against alleged members and associates of the Crips, a nationwide criminal street gang, in the killing of Nicholas Sheffey, an 11-year-old Chamblee,...
Defendant Gets Life Plus Five for Killing in DeKalb County
DeKalb County, GA -- DeKalb resident Walter Lee Harris was sentenced on March 10 to life plus five years for killing Quintin Walker. The murder occurred at the Sp...
DeKalb Jury Convicts Steven Scott for Murder of Dan Smith
DeKalb County, GA –- A DeKalb County, Georgia jury on March 9 returned guilty verdicts of felony murder, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during th...
DeKalb County, GA – A former DeKalb County detention officer arrested last May pled guilty today to violation of oath of office and furnishing prohibited items to an inmate. The items were cigarettes and marijuana.
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DeKalb County, GA – A DeKalb County jury has found Wendell William Dozier, Jr. guilty of rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, incest and child molestation. The victim was unfortunately his own minor child.[Read on...]
DeKalb County law enforcement officials will host the Crime Prevention Tour on Saturday, Feb. 27 at Tucker Middle School located at 2160 Idlewood Road. DeKalb County residents, homeowner association members and busines...
A strong case developed by a DeKalb County assistant district attorney (dekalbda.org) has lead to the conviction of Dominique Copeland in the armed robbery of Damion Holmes’ Navy Blu clothing store on Flat Shoals Avenue in...
DeKalb County, GA – A DeKalb County grand jury yesterday returned a true bill of indictment against alleged members and associates of DAFAM, a metro Atlanta-area criminal street gang. In the 95 count indictment 14 people a...
DeKalb County, GA – Dr. James Berry, former principal at DeKalb County’s Atherton Elementary School, pled guilty today to public records fraud which is part of a probe into the state of Georgia’s CRCT testing progra...
As part of its ongoing multiple programs that contribute to the reduction and prevention of crime in DeKalb County, the VIPER unit of the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office on Dec. 17 destroyed 115 firearms previ...
Decatur, GA – The DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office (www.dekalbda.org) has secured three more pleas in the Recorders Court case where former county employees and their associates were involved in fixing traffic tick...