GBI Investigates Death in Dawson, GA
UPDATE: The GBI has charged Nakia West, age 26, of Albany, GA with Felony Murder and Aggravated Assault in connection with the death of Annie …
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GBI Makes Arrest in Multi-State Cyber Fraud Investigation
Lawrenceville, GA (February 2, 2022) – A year-long investigation conducted by the GBI Cyber Crime Center (G3C) has resulted in the arrest of Ngozi Patience …
GBI Public and Governmental Affairs Deputy Director Sworn in as First Woman President of the Georgia Chapter of NOBLE
Decatur, GA (February 2, 2022) – Natalie Ammons, Deputy Director of the GBI Office of Public and Governmental Affairs, has been sworn in as President …
Investigation of missing child underway in Vienna
Update: The GBI has arrested and charged Keara Cotton with Murder, Concealing the Death of Another, and Cruelty to Children 2nd Degree. Additionally, investigators obtained …
Officer Involved Shooting in Atlanta Under Investigation by GBI
UPDATE: Atlanta, GA (January 25, 2022) – The man involved in this OIS has been identified as Bobby Lee Sutton, age 59. ORIGINAL RELEASE: Atlanta, …
Police Officer Arrested for Sale of Marijuana
Warwick, GA (February 2, 2022) – On Friday, January 28, 2022, the GBI Southwestern Regional Drug Enforcement Office (SWRDEO), arrested Leon Mitchell, age 32, of …
Spalding County Sheriff’s Deputy Arrested for Distributing Obscene Materials to Minor
Griffin, GA (February 3, 2022) – The GBI arrested Spalding County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Mason Keith Lumpkin, 26, of Griffin, GA, for one count of …
GBI Investigates Homicide in Snellville, GA
Snellville, GA (January 9, 2021) – On Friday, January 7, 2022, the Snellville Police Department asked the GBI to investigate a homicide which left …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Lyons, GA
Lyons County, GA (January 9, 2021) – The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting in Lyons, Toombs County, GA. The Lyons Police Department …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Crawford County
Crawford County, GA (January 9, 2021) – The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting in Crawford County, GA. The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Columbus
Columbus, GA (January 7, 2022) – The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting in Columbus, GA. The Columbus Police Department asked the GBI …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Atlanta
Atlanta, GA (January 23, 2022) – The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting in Atlanta, GA, involving a Fulton County Sheriff’s Office deputy. The …
GBI Conducts Death Investigation in Evans County, GA
Claxton, GA (January 16, 2021) – The GBI is investigating a shooting incident that happened on Saturday, January 15, 2022. At about 10:30 p.m., the …
Double shooting in Vidalia under investigation
UPDATE: (January 12, 2022) – Joshua Magual Sanders, age 27, of Birmingham, AL, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in Flagstaff, AZ today on …
GBI Arrests Seven People in Home Invasion & Aggravated Assault Investigation
Cairo, GA (December 22, 2021) – The GBI has arrested seven people in a home invasion and aggravated assault investigation in Cairo, GA. Five of …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Savannah
Savannah, GA (December 22, 2021) – The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting in Savannah, GA. The Savannah Police Department asked the GBI to …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Columbus
Columbus, GA (December 20, 2021) – The GBI is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Columbus, GA. The Muscogee County Sheriff’s Office asked the GBI …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Haralson County
Haralson County, GA (December 20, 2021) – The GBI is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Haralson County, GA. The Georgia State Patrol (GSP) and the …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Columbus
Columbus, GA (December 20, 2021) – The GBI is investigating an officer-involved shooting in Columbus, GA. The Columbus Police Department asked the GBI to …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Henry County
Ellenwood, GA (December 10, 2021) – The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting an officer involved shooting investigation in Ellenwood, Henry County, GA. On Thursday, …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Camden County
Waverly, GA (December 10, 2021) – The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting an officer involved shooting investigation in Waverly, Camden County, GA. On Friday, …
GBI Investigates Child Death in Evans County
UPDATE: Claxton, GA (December 16, 2021) – On Wednesday, December 15, 2021, Daequan Roberts, 21, of Claxton, GA, was arrested for the death of his …
Suspect shot by Sandy Springs police after lunging at cops with knife
Sandy Springs, GA (November 19, 2021) – The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is conducting an officer involved shooting investigation in Sandy Springs. On Friday, November 19, …
Bibb County man shot and killed by police after pointing gun at officers during standoff
Byron, GA (November 18, 2021) – The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting in Byron, Crawford County, GA. The Crawford County Sheriff’s Office asked the …
Chief Deputy of Worth County Sheriff’s Office arrested for cruelty to children
Sylvester, GA (November 16, 2021) – On Monday, November 15, 2021, the GBI arrested Worth County Chief Deputy Raymond Drennen, age 60, and charged him …
Man charged for exploitation, battery of 15-year-old child
On Monday, November 15, 2021, the GBI arrested Steve Macallin Thomas, 22, of Garfield, GA. Thomas is charged with two counts of Sexual Exploitation and …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Jackson County
Jackson County, GA – The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting that happened in Jackson County, GA. One woman has died in the incident. …
Georgia issues blue alert for Jordan Jackson after shooting Henry County police office
Henry County, GA – The GBI has issued a Blue Alert for Jordan Jackson, 22, of McDonough, GA. A Blue Alert is a public safety alert …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Covington
Covington, GA (November 4, 2021) – The GBI is investigating an officer-involved shooting that happened in Covington, GA. One man has died in the incident. …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Cobb County
Smyrna, GA (November 3, 2021) – On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, the GBI was requested by the Cobb County Police Department (CCPD) to investigate an …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Atlanta
Atlanta, GA (October 29, 2021) – The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting at the request of the Atlanta Police Department. The preliminary information …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Atlanta
ATLANTA, GA – The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting that happened on 320 Luckie Street, in Atlanta. One man has died in the incident, and …
GBI Investigates Use of Force Incident in Richmond County
Update 10/18/2021: After several days under medical care, Jermaine M. Jones, Jr. has died. ORIGINAL STATEMENT: 10/12/2021 The GBI is investigating a use of force …
GBI Investigates Triple Homicide in Terrell County
Terrell County (October 18, 2021) – The GBI has charged Larry Eugene Calloway, age 54, of Parrott, GA with felony murder in a triple homicide …
State investigating officer involved shooting in Atlanta
Atlanta, GA (October 20, 2021) – The GBI is investigating an officer involved shooting that happened at the Atlantic House, a high-rise apartment building at …
Suspicious death being investigated in Fulton County
The GBI is conducting a death investigation in Fulton County. On Tuesday, October 19, 2021, the Georgia State Patrol (GSP) asked the GBI to investigate …
Police Seeking Information on Deadly Shooting in Manchester, Georgia
Manchester, GA (October 22, 2021) – The GBI and Manchester Police Department are continuing to seek information on a deadly shooting that occurred on Sunday, …
Roswell Police Department Seek Assistance in Locating Sexual Assault Victims
Roswell, GA (October 22, 2021) – The GBI is assisting the Roswell Police Department with identifying additional sexual assault victims in an ongoing criminal investigation. …
GBI Issues Blue Alert and Investigates Death of Alamo Police Officer Killed in the Line of Duty
Alamo, GA (October 13, 2021) – On Tuesday, October 12, 2021, Charlotte Ferguson, age 45, of Alamo, GA, was arrested and charged with Hindering the …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Monroe
Monroe, GA (October 9, 2021) – On Friday, October 8, 2021, the GBI was requested by the Monroe Police Department to investigate an officer involved …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Evans County
Evans, County, GA (October 9, 2021) – On Friday, October 8, 2021, at approximately 10:30 p.m., the GBI was requested by the Evans County Sheriff’s …
GBI Investigates Death in Sylvania, GA
Sylvania, GA (October 7, 2021) – On October 7, 2021, the GBI arrested Walter Washington, age 70, of Sylvania, GA and charged him with one count …
Appalachian Judicial Circuit District Attorney Announces Guilty Plea of Defendant in GBI Gang and Human Trafficking Investigation
Ellijay, Glimer County, GA (October 6, 2021) – Appalachian Judicial Circuit District Attorney Alison Sosebee announces a conviction by guilty plea in a gang and …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Crisp County
UPDATE: October 5,2021 The man involved in this officer involved shooting is identified as James Daynair Goodwin, age 46. Goodwin remains in the hospital in …
GBI Makes Arrest in 2008 Lakeland, GA Murder
Lakeland, GA (October 2, 2021) – On Friday, September 24, 2021, the GBI obtained arrests warrants and charged Marquis Williams, age 30, and Andrew Johnson, …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in LaGrange
Update: The man involved in this OIS is identified as Ronald McCormick, age 39, of LaGrange. LaGrange, GA (September 28, 2021) – On Tuesday, September …
GBI Investigates Officer Involved Shooting in Marietta
(Marietta, GA) – On Tuesday, September 28, 2021, the GBI was requested by the Marietta Police Department to investigate an officer involved shooting. The early …