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Griffin PD lieutenant fired for recording meeting with Police Chief Mike Yates
Griffin Police Department Chief Mike Yates received verbal counseling and former Lt. Chris Wilson was terminated following the investigation of an audio recording of a meeting involving the two...
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Sheriff: Dozens arrested in operation targeting series of gang related...
STAFF REPORT ::: Dozens of arrests have been made in connection with what the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office describes as a series of gang related incidents in which people, homes and vehicles have...
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GPD Chief: more than 560 arrested during CAGE Unit 14-month Operation...
STAFF REPORT ::: The Griffin Police Department Criminal Apprehension and Gang Enforcement (CAGE) Unit, with support from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Drug...
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Unexpected snowfall aids in GPD and SCSO tracking entering auto suspect
STAFF REPORT :::A Griffin man is facing charges related to entering an auto in the Forest Hills neighborhood. The Griffin Police Department reports that at approximately 2 a.m. Saturday, Uniform...
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SCSO deputy arrested by GBI for distributing obscene materials to minor
STAFF REPORT ::: A deputy employed by the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office was on Tuesday, Feb. 1, arrested and taken into custody by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Spalding County...
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Four-year-old Griffin boy in critical condition following shooting
STAFF REPORT :::A four-year-old Griffin boy is in critical condition after being shot. Officers of the Griffin Police Department Uniform Patrol Division on Tuesday morning responded to a call...
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GPD: Friday murder suspect remains at large; considered armed and dangerous
STAFF REPORT ::: A stabbing in Griffin has left one man dead and police searching for the suspect. The Griffin Police Department on Friday responded at 4:08 p.m. to 110 Morris St. Apartment G, in...
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Search underway for hit-and-run driver who killed bicyclist on Vineyard Road...
SHEILA A. MATHEWS :::The Georgia State Patrol Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team is investigating a hit and run that took the life of 59-year-old Richard Miley, of Spalding County. Miley, who...
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GSP makes arrest in fatal Saturday night hit-and-run that killed bicyclist
SHEILA A. MATHEWS :::An arrest has been made in a Saturday night hit-and-run that killed 59-year-old Richard Miley, who was riding his bicycle on Vineyard Road when he was struck. Benjamin Tyshawn...
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Griffin teacher arrested and charged with hitting two students
STAFF REPORT ::: Cassandra Clarice Barlow, a teacher in the Griffin-Spalding County School System, has been arrested after allegedly striking two students with a computer charger. Spalding County...
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Sheriff: Arrest made in Sunday murder that took place with children playing...
STAFF REPORT ::: A 19-year-old Griffin man, Brandon Hawkins, has been charged with murder and aggravated assault following a Sunday afternoon shooting. Deputies of the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office...
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EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: GPD Crime Lab and evidence room compromised by...
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: On Thursday morning, the Griffin Police Department (GPD) issued a press release regarding the security breach that is the subject of this investigative report.The GRIP has been...
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BREAKING NEWS: GBI investigating allegation of missing funds from Griffin...
STAFF REPORT :::The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating an allegation of missing deposits from the Griffin Golf Course. An “internal source” reported the missing deposits to the office of...
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Griffin man charged with brutally killing and decapitating his sister’s pit bull
STAFF REPORT :::Police say a Griffin man is in custody on charges related to the horrifically brutal killing and decapitation of his sister’s pit bull. Griffin Police Department Office Matthew Kerlin...
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City pursuing Facebook subpoena related to deletion of Griffin PD press release
Griffin Police Department Chief Mike Yates SHEILA A. MATHEWS :::The city of Griffin is inquiring into the removal of a press release from the official City of Griffin Police Department Facebook page....
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Rehoboth Road Middle School on lockdown while threatening letter is investigated
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: Rehoboth Road Middle School has been placed on lockdown while the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office and school administrators investigate a threatening not located today on school...
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Jury deliberates only 25 minutes before convicting Griffin teen in 2020...
Booking photo provided by the Griffin Police Department SHEILA A. MATHEWS :::A Spalding County jury on Wednesday deliberated only 25 minutes before returning a guilty verdict in the murder trial of...
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GHS student facing child porn charges after explicit video was AirDropped at...
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: A 17-year-old Griffin High School student, Lucinda Karina Bailey, has been arrested and charged with the production and distribution of child pornography under the Georgia...
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Griffin man reported being struck by “stray bullet” prior to succumbing to...
STAFF REPORT :::Wildarious Draggs, of D.F. Fuller Drive, was conscious and responsive just before 6 p.m. Tuesday when Griffin Police officers arrived at 1001 Lake Avenue in response to a shooting....
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EXCLUSIVE: Griffin Police Department manipulated public records, used civic...
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: In an organized effort, the city of Griffin and Griffin Police Department have engaged in the selective release of public records to manipulate the responses of Black residents...
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