Macon – Owners of a Peach County convenience store pleaded guilty Monday to gambling offenses and were sentenced to pay $23,000 in restitution to the Georgia Department of Revenue. Pankaj Patel and his wife, Alkaben, have owned Grub-N-Gas at 201 Moseley Road in Byron since 2001. They both entered guilty pleas in a Superior Court […]
Macon – Jurors deliberated for about 20 minutes Wednesday before finding a 28-year-old man guilty of going to a motel with the intent to have sex with a 15-year-old girl in March 2015. Toney Mac Quesenberry, of Macon, was convicted on one count of computer pornography and child exploitation and one count of criminal attempt […]
Macon – A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday to his part in a July 13, 2016, holdup outside a Macon Starbucks. Davontae Eugene Cobb, of Macon, pleaded guilty to armed robbery. A Bibb County Superior Court judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison followed by 10 years on probation. Cobb must serve the prison […]
Macon – Jurors have found a man guilty of kidnapping a woman in 2015, forcing her to drive him away from Macon’s Pendleton Homes, 3401 Houston Ave. Steve Anthony Fort, 22, will be sentenced at a later date. He could face up to 20 years in prison without the possibility of parole. A trial began […]
Macon – A Macon man pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Thursday in the 2015 fatal shooting of Jarvis Ronte West at a Clinton Road apartment. Shavez Christian Flewellen, 25, also pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a first offender probationer and to violating his probation. Flewellen was sentenced to 20 years, 17 of […]
Macon – Due to inclement weather, the Bibb County District Attorney’s Office will delay opening Thursday until 11 a.m. Locations in Crawford and Peach counties will open at regular business hours. For more news from the District Attorney’s Office, follow on Twitter @DA_DavidCooke and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DADavidCooke. Contact: Amy Leigh Womack awomack@maconbibb.us 478-621-6179 (office) […]
Macon – The Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office will be closed Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018, due to inclement weather. The closing includes locations in Bibb, Crawford and Peach counties. The office plans to reopen Thursday. For more news from the District Attorney’s Office, follow on Twitter @DA_DavidCooke and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DADavidCooke. Contact: Amy […]
Macon — Bibb County grand jurors indicted a Macon woman Tuesday on allegations she took a man’s 2011 Honda Accord by intimidation Aug. 18 while in possession of a knife. Lori Delois Harrell, 30, is charged with hijacking a motor vehicle stemming from the alleged Wericoba Drive incident. An indictment in the case was filed […]
Macon — A Macon man was indicted Tuesday on allegations he broke into a man’s Brigham Street home Nov. 5, robbed the man, and beat him with a metal stick. Stephen Michael Bilow, 40, is charged with burglary, robbery by force, aggravated assault and possession of methamphetamine. An indictment in the case was filed Tuesday in […]
Macon — Bibb County grand jurors indicted a Macon man Tuesday in the Sept. 24 kidnapping and robbery of a woman in a Bloomfield Road parking lot. Marquethus Arcellous Flowers, 24, is charged with armed robbery, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault, hijacking a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. […]
