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TikTok By Joe Johnson A group of masked teenagers smashed glass display cases in Target on Atlanta Highway in Athens last Friday night and stole electronics valued at over $16,000, They made their getaway in a stolen car that wrecked after a police chase through three counties. Two of the teens were arrested and charged as adults, two are being held at a juvenile detention facility, and a fifth suspect got away. Authorities recovered the stolen merchandise. The arrested teen

By Joe Johnson Two men from Elbert County were arrested this week after they tried breaking into a house on Lakeover Drive. A husband and wife were awakened at about 1:15 a.m. Monday by the sound of someone trying to break down their door. Police officers arrived to find the men who claimed to be looking to get money owed to a cousin from the sale of a car. The residents had no idea what the intruders were talking about. The men were identified as Cory Frederick Maxwell, 35,

By Joe Johnson Two men from Elbert County were arrested this week after they tried breaking into a house on Lakeover Drive. A husband and wife were awakened at about 1:15 a.m. Monday by the sound of someone trying to break down their door. Police officers arrived to find the men who claimed to be looking to get money owed to a cousin from the sale of a car. The residents had no idea what the intruders were talking about. The men were identified as Cory Frederick Maxwell, 35,

By Joe Johnson Athens police have identified a pair of suspects in the burglary last month of a convenience store on Hawthorne Avenue, After breaking into Variety Mart early on the morning of November 5th the thieves made off with two safes, a cash register and thousands of dollars in merchandise. A couple of days later a police officer received “credible information” concerning the identities of the burglars and the car they had used for the heist, The officer was patrollin

By Joe Johnson Thieves last month stole an unknown amount of mail during a burglary at the Bogart post office on Atlanta Highway in Oconee County. The break-in was discovered by an employee on November 19th at about 6 a.m. when she arrived for work and found that the front door had been forced open. She immediately went back outside and called the sheriff’s office, When deputies arrived they searched the building and saw that everything appeared intact, that regiisters and s

By Joe Johnson A group of burglars last week broke into Variety Mart on Hawthorne Avenue and stole two safes, a cash register and thousand of dollars worth of merchandise. The commercial burglary happened at around 4:40 a.m. Wednesday when the thieves arrived in a dark-colored Kia Telluride and used a pry bar to open the locked front door. Dressed all jn black and with hoods pulled over their heads, they went to work removing the safes and register to the SUV, along with cart

By Joe Johnson A pair of would-be burglars tried breaking into an Athens convenience store through its wall but were thwarted by an immovable object. The incident happened on October 21st at Quick Pantry on Newton Bridge Road where the suspects used a sledgehammer to first destroy a surveillance camera and then smash through two layers of brick only to be stopped by a steel cooler. Policemen said they were able to get images of the suspects from footage recorded before the ca

Daniel Jay Cochran By Joe Johnson A 55-year-old Winterville man was arrested early the morning of July 3rd for breaking into a home on...

Cody McGowan Hall By Joe Johnson Cody Hall, a 32-year old paroled felon was arrested early the morning of June 13th outside of his...

Brittani Ann Clark By Joe Johnson A homeless woman was arrested on a first-degree burglary charge after she entered a University of...