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BUFORD -- It was a harrowing few hours for shoppers at Mall of Georgia Wednesday afternoon, as police officers, cruisers and helicopters swarmed the area surrounding the mall.
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Mall Bomb Scare: No explosives were found at Mall of Georgia

by Thom ChandlerAugust 7, 2019August 7, 2019
LITHONIA -- A DeKalb County Police officer was hospitalized after a shootout with a suspect early Thursday morning.
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DeKalb police officer shot in line of duty, suspect still at large

by Thom ChandlerAugust 2, 2019August 6, 2019
Updated with more details provided by the Dunwoody Police Dept.
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Dunwoody Police officer dragged down ramp on I-285

by Thom ChandlerAugust 1, 2019August 2, 2019
BIBB COUNTY -- The Bibb County Sheriff's Office is reminding residents not to give any money to scammers calling and claiming to be from the sheriff's department.
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Scam Alert: That police officer calling to demand you pay a fine probably isn’t legit

by Thom ChandlerAugust 1, 2019August 1, 2019
LAKE LANIER -- The Hall County Sheriff's Department is trying to find the rightful owners of what officials call a "sizeable amount" of fishing equipment the department recovered while executing a search warrant last week.
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Hall County Sheriff’s Dept. recovers fishing equipment stolen from docks at Lake Lanier

by Thom ChandlerJuly 31, 2019July 31, 2019
ATLANTA -- Three gang members pleaded guilty in a 2017 shooting that left a 5-year-old girl paralyzed and seriously injured a 3-year-old boy.
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3 gang members plead guilty to shooting and paralyzing a 5-year-old girl while she played in a bounce house at a birthday party

by Thom ChandlerJuly 29, 2019September 24, 2023
NORCROSS -- The driver in Saturday’s hit and run pedestrian fatality has been arrested.  The vehicle was recovered at 745 Beaver Ruin Road yesterday afternoon. It had damage consistent to the incident. 
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Arrest made in fatal hit and run in Norcross

by Thom ChandlerJuly 23, 2019July 23, 2019
LITHONIA -- The DeKalb County Sheriff's office has made an arrest in connection with the stabbing death of Troy Cosby last year.
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Suspect arrested and charged with murder in the 2018 stabbing death of Troy Cosby

by Thom ChandlerJuly 23, 2019July 23, 2019
UPDATE: An arrest has been made in this incident. Read more about it here.
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Gwinnett Police search for driver in fatal hit and run

by Thom ChandlerJuly 22, 2019July 23, 2019
DALLAS -- A Paulding County K-9 officer died Friday after what Sheriff's Dept. officials are calling "a series of tragic, almost unbelievable events."
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Police K-9 officer dies after ‘series of tragic, almost unbelievable events’

by Thom ChandlerJuly 22, 2019July 23, 2019
SAVANNAH -- Savannah Police Violent Crimes detectives made a quick arrest in the homicide of a 70-year-old woman on Thursday, July 18.
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Georgia man arrested and charged with the murder of his 70-year-old mother

by Thom ChandlerJuly 19, 2019July 19, 2019
DOUGLAS COUNTY -- A Douglas County mother has been arrested and charged with trafficking heroin after law enforcement officials from Douglas and Cobb Counties caught her shipping heroin to her son in the Cobb County jail.
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Sheriff: Georgia mother arrested for shipping heroin to inmate sun

by Thom ChandlerJuly 18, 2019July 18, 2019
GAINESVILLE -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has made five additional arrests relating to the killing of Hall County Deputy Nicolas Dixon.
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Five more arrests have been made in the killing of Hall County Deputy Nicolas Dixon

by Thom ChandlerJuly 17, 2019July 17, 2019
EMANUEL COUNTY -- An Emanuel County Grand Jury indicted seven members of a Bloods-affiliated racketeering enterprise Tuesday after receiving testimony from Special Agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Eastman Office and the Washington County Multi Agency Gang Unit. 
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Grand Jury indicts 7 for Bloods-affiliated racketeering charges

by Thom ChandlerJuly 17, 2019July 17, 2019
BUFORD -- The second suspect in the murder investigation of a 15-year-old who was shot and killed behind a Buford gas station has been arrested.
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Second arrest made in killing of 15-year-old behind Buford gas station

by Thom ChandlerJuly 17, 2019July 17, 2019
ATLANTA -- A Lithonia man suspected of sexual assaults against his girlfriend’s minor child has been arrested at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport by the Sex Offender Unit of the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office working in conjunction with U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Office of Homeland Security.
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Man suspected of sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s child arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson

by Thom ChandlerJuly 16, 2019July 16, 2019
LAWRENCEVILLE -- Gwinnett Police are asking for your help in identifying suspects in multiple entering auto cases. 
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Here’s why you should keep your car doors locked at night

by Thom ChandlerJuly 12, 2019July 12, 2019
ATLANTA -- A 37-year-old rapper and sports agent from Alabama has been arrested on charges of trafficking meth and marijuana.
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GBI: Rapper throws meth over balcony of Atlanta high rise during drug bust

by Thom ChandlerJuly 12, 2019September 24, 2023

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