Investigators in Georgia have arrested the ex-boyfriend of a woman found dead earlier this month in a private lake. The body of 54-year-old Collette Sease was found on March 3 at the lake, on private property, in Covington, the Newton County Sheriff’s Office said. Police were initially called for a possible drowning but later determined …
A 39-year-old Missouri man has been arrested and charged with raping a 5-year-old girl. Chase Reed is in the Newton County jail awaiting arraignement on charges of statutory sodomy and statutory rape, KSNF reported. Court records say the child was interviewed at the Children’s Center and told investigators Reed touched her “bad spots” and hurt …
An 85-year-old Georgia man has been charged with shooting his 60-year-old son to death in front of dozens of witnesses during a fishing tournament on the family’s property. Wayne Eaton was taken into custody early Friday evening, according to Covington Police. Family members told WSB that the shooting took place inside a bait shop by …
Update 8:55p.m.: Newton County officials said they had located the missing boy and taken his mother into custody. No further information was available. Original story: Georgia police are looking for a mother they say kidnapped her 9-year-old son from school Tuesday morning. The Newton County Sheriff’s Office said that 24-year-0od Mya Mechelle Favors lost her …
A Georgia woman was sentenced last week to 30 years in prison for the physical, mental, and emotional abuse of her three stepchildren. Nora Rodgers pleaded guilty on October 9 to nine counts of cruelty to children, the Newton County District Attorney’s Office said. A sentencing hearing was held on Tuesday, and Rodgers was also …
Six Missouri residents have been indicted in the kidnapping and murder of another Missouri man whose body was found a year ago after a violent standoff with one of the suspects. Acting on a tip that there was a body in the woods near a house outside Joplin, Newton County deputies and Joplin police showed …
A Missouri man was arrested early Monday and charged with killing two people he believed killed his girlfriend. Newton County deputies were investigating the death of 25-year-old Brylee O’Banion, whose body was found just after 4 p.m. Saturday in a ditch in Loma Linda. According to Newton County Sheriff Ken Jennings, investigators considered Mason McClure, …
Authorities in Georgia say a pair of crooks were nabbed as part of a sting operation into what appears to be a stolen-vehicle ring. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 22-year-old Shawn Milstead of Inglewood, Calif., and 35-year-old Jason Tucker of Pontiac, Mich., were arrested on suspicion of attempting to use fraudulent documentation to secure …
