CLASSIC CITY NEWS

Issued tonight by the Jackson County Emergency Management Agency: ‼️ MISSING ENDANGERED PERSON ‼️ Christopher Elliott, 36yo black male, bald, schizophrenic, weighing approximately 150 lbs with tattoos on forearms (wings, CASH LIFE) wearing white tank and black shorts. He was last seen at 2021 Archer Grove School Road on foot around 8:13 pm. If seen, please call 911 or 706-367-1911.

By Joe Johnson Athens police this month arrested two men who exposed themselves to women and masturbated in front of them. The first incident happened on the morning of May 3rd at a mental health clinic on Mitchell Bridge Road where 36-year-old Kierre Shamar Ramsey masturbated in front of a woman at the reception deck. After the police were called to the scene it was learned that he had done the same thing to a nurse there and also made sexual comments to her. Ramsey was arre

By Joe Johnson Sandy Nashalle Franklin, 45, of Broadacres Court, was arrested last week after she set a fire inside Piedmont Athens Regional that caused extensive damage. According to police, the incident occurred shortly after 10 pm May 8th in a room near the ambulance entrance where Franklin set a trash can fire that burned for about 10 minutes before the sprinkler system was activated. The sprinkler system extinguished the fire but it also flooded the Emergency Department,

By Joe Johnson Santavious Montez Davenport has been charged with fracturing a woman’s skull by assaulting her with a bicycle. The 30-year old-old homeless man was charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery and criminal trespass, to an indictment filed in Superior Court on Tuesday, The charges stem from an incident at a wooded off of Old Hull Road in February when he attacked the woman by throwing the bicycle into her tent, A responding police officer reported that th

By Joe Johnson A Superior Court judge has ordered a mental health evaluation for the woman who injured several people in December when she intentionally crashed her car into Kroger on Alps Road. Lonneshia Shafaye Appling is facing multiple counts of aggravated assault for her actions that day, Prosecutors say that the 40-year-old Dudley Drive resident had been under the influence of a combination of fentanyl and methamphetamine when her car plowed into the supermarket. Accor

By Joe Johnson Caroline Elizabeth Strong, 44, of Mitchell Bridge Road, was arrested on January 11th after police received complaints that she was naked in the drive-thru area of McDonald’s on Prince Avenue. When officers arrived they found Strong sitting fully-clothed on the ground. “I asked Strong why she had been naked a few minutes ago and she said she was a nudist,” an officer wrote in her report. Strong was arrested for public indecency and also barred from that McDonal

By Joe Johnson The woman whose car injured several people last week when it crashed into Kroger on Alps Road has been arrested on felony charges, Lonneshia Shafaye Appling, 40, of Ashley Circle, was booked into the county jail Tuesday afternoon on charges of driving under the influence of drugs, reckless driving, possession of drug-related objects, and causing serious injury with a vehicle. Classic City News has reached out to the police department for details about the ch

By Joe Johnson Sandy Nashalle Franklin, 40, of Monroe, was arrested on the afternoon of December 4th after she pepper sprayed a Georgia Power employee who was trying to get back work gloves that she had taken. The incident happened at a worksite on West Broad Street where Georgia Power had been dealing with a power line problem for about a week. Utility employees told police that Franklin had been harassing them by messing with their orange safety cones and walking directly

stock photo By Joe Johnson An Athens police officer recently talked down an armed woman from killing herself and helped get her to the...

Joshua Adam Singletary By Joe Johnson An Athens man was pulling into his home on McNutts Creek Drive the evening of June 20th when...

Devin Joseph Jackson By Joe Johnson An employee was attacked this week at a facility operated by Advantage Behavioral Health Systems on...

By Joe Johnson A man has been indicted for assaulting a patient who was strapped to a hospital bed two years ago. Trenton Emory Davis,...

By Joe Johnson A 76-year-old woman was hospitalized Sunday afternoon after police were dispatched to her home on Burkland Drive to...