CLASSIC CITY NEWS

By Joe Johnson An Athens man on Thursday was convicted of molesting a young girl over a two-year period and received a lifetime sentence. Following a Superior Court trial, the jury found 43-year- old Daniel Lee Grier guilty of aggravated sexual battery and three counts of child molestation. He was sentenced to serve 40 years in prison and probation for the rest of his life.

By Joe Johnson A man who had been arrested following a domestic violence incident at his Marlin Street home earlier this year has been indicted for allegedly beating and raping his wife. According to the indictment filed in Superior Court, 35-year-old Gregory McKinley Mulligan was charged with rape, two counts of aggravated assault, false imprisonment, possession of a controlled substance, and battery under the state Family Violence Act. According to police, officers respond

By Joe Johnson Athens police announced today that they were unable to find evidence that a University of Georgia student had been sexually assaulted last week in the area of City Hall. The 20-year-.old student had woken up on the landing of the building’s staircase with no memory of how she got there during a night of drinking downtown with friends. She later told her roommates that when she woke up there was a homeless man nearby masturbating and her skirt was inside out. Th

By Joe Johnson An Athens grand jury has indicted a Jackson County man for allegedly sexually assaulting a 22-year old woman last year in her eastside apartment. Jacob Steven Dockery, 19, of Jefferson Road, was charged with rape and aggravated sodomy with force, according to the indictment that was filed on August 11th. He is currently incarcerated at the Madison County Jail for a sexual assault that allegedly occurred in Hull. The Athens incident reportedly happened in Septem

By Joe Johnson A 20-year-old University of Georgia student’s hazy recollection of a night drinking with friends in downtown Athens has launched a police investigation into whether she might have been sexually assaulted. Before walking up Friday morning on the landing of City Hall’s staircase, her last recollection was that of drinking with friends at Woodford bar on East Washington Street. She had slept on a flattened out cardboard box, and upon waking saw a homeless man behi

ACCPD has released the following The Athens-Clarke County Police Department has made an arrest in connection with the investigation into a possible sexual assault that occurred in downtown Athens on August 21, 2026. On August 25, 2026, Timothy Evans, a 49-year-old male of Athens, GA, was charged with Financial Transaction Card Theft, Financial Transaction Card Fraud, and Identity Fraud in connection with this case. As the investigation continues, additional charges may be for

By Joe Johnson Detectives have identified a homeless man as a possible suspect in the sexual assault of a University of Georgia student last week. Police learned about the assault on Friday when the hospital reported that they were treating the victim of an assault that occurred sometime overnight in the area of Athens City Hall. This is an ongoing investigation and police asked for anyone with information regarding the incident to contact Detective Elmore at Giselle.Elmore@a

By Joe Johnson Athens police are investigating a sexual assault that reportedly happened in the area of City Hall. They learned about it on Friday when the hospital reported that they were treating the victim of an assault that occurred sometime overnight. A police spokesperson did not know if the victim had been raped, “There is no further information at this time. The investigation is being investigated as a sexual assault,” Lt. Katie Jenkins said. This is an ongoing invest

By Joe Johnson A 35-year-old Athens man has been indicted for allegedly raping his wife during a domestic violence incident earlier this year. In addition to rape, Gregory McKinley Mulligan was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, family violence battery, and possession of a controlled substance, according to the indictment filed last month in Superior Court. Police said that the incident happened on March 10th at the couple’s home on Marlin Street, where officers r

By Joe Johnson Christopher Alexander Breault, 23, has been indicted for an alleged sexual assault at his home on Pulaski Street earlier this year. He was charged with rape, aggravated sexual battery, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to the indictment filed in Superior Court on Tuesday. The incident allegedly happened at Breault’s residence on April 17th and he was arrested the following day. At that time he was in possession of a semiautomatic pisto

By Joe Johnson Jason Gutierrez Martinez, 20. of Woody Lane, was arrested on July 1st on multiple counts of sexual exploitation of children. He was booked into the county jail on 10 felony counts that stem from an investigation that was launched last month when Athens police received information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding the possible online possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material. That led to a search of Martinez’s

By Joe Johnson Jeffrey Joseph Pourciau, 59, of Lafayette, LA, was arrested on the afternoon of June 29th in an Athens clothing store where he reportedly exposed himself to several employees, One of the employees, a 21-year-old Athens resident, told police that she was helping Pourciau look for a shirt in Buckle at Beechwood Promenade when she “observed the zipper of the shorts he was wearing open and could see his penis and testicles in view.” A second employee gave a similar

By Joe Johnson A 23-year-old college student reported that someone apparently took photos of her while she was taking a shower in her home on the night of June 24th. The incident happened at Riverbend Club Apartments shortly after 11 p.m. when the University of North Georgia student stepped out of the shower and saw someone holding a cellphone to the outside of the bathroom window, just below the blinds. She ran into her roommate’s room and told her what happened, at which ti

By Joe Johnson The Athens-Clarke County Police Department is investigating two rapes that women reported to them over the past week. The first was reported on June 2nd by a 36-year-old woman who said she was raped in her West Broad Street boarding house. Police said they learned about the second rape on June 7th when officers responded to a person-down call at the victim’s home. Upon arrival they found the victim crying hysterically and with her clothes disheveled. She would

Released today by the Gwinnett County Police Department (Norcross, Ga., May 20, 2026) – Gwinnett County Police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Bernardo Antonio Romero-Linarte, who is wanted on multiple felony warrants related to crimes against a child. The warrants obtained for Romero-Linarte include kidnapping, false imprisonment, aggravated sodomy, aggravated child molestation, sexual battery, and child molestation. Romero-Linarte’s current whereabouts ar

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

Released by the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office: Yesterday, Barrow County Sheriff’s Office along with Statham Police Department and other personnel from multiple agencies worked together to locate and apprehend rape suspect Brandon Wells. Assisting agencies included Georgia State Patrol Aviation, the BCSO Drone Task Force, and K9 teams from the Barrow County Sheriff’s Office, Auburn Police Department, Lawrenceville Police Department, and Walton County Sheriff’s Office. Through

By Joe Johnson A 17-year old girl last week was traumatized by the sight of a man masturbating in Ben Burton Park. The teen told police that she was sitting on the riverbank journaling on the morning of April 30th when she saw an older white male with a handlebar mustache masturbating on a nearby trail. Witnesses reported that the girl had been “crying and acting hysterically” while telling what she had seen. The man had reportedly briefly blocked the girl’s path on the trail

By Joe Johnson A worker with a carnival that comes to town every year was recently exposed as an apparent child predator by an Athens area vigilante group. The 40-year-old suspect was working for the Spring Fling Fair carnival at Georgia Square Mall when he engaged in sexually explicit online activity with someone who he thought was a 14-year-old boy. The boy was actually a member of the Street Sweeperz Unit who confronted the suspect and videoed him as he admitted to illegal

By Joe Johnson Timothy Lee Randles, 39, of Almond Drive, has been arrested for possessing child sexual abuse material. The Investigation began in November with a cyber tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Randles had uploaded images of children being sexually abused to the Kik messaging app. The tip had initially been assigned to the FBI and further investigation was conducted by the Athens-Clarke County Police Department’s Special Victims Unit.