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The Flagler County Sheriff's Office recently arrested Tina Marie Smith, age 43, of Palm Coast for child pornography and having sex with a minor. Her husband, Alton Everett Smith, Jr., is being sought for the ... . Anyone with information on the location of Alton Everett Smith, Jr. or this case should contact the Flagler County Sheriff's Office or other authorities. It is reported that Mr. Smith may be travelling on the Intracoastal Waterway in a blue and white sailboat. ...

For three days the Polk County Sheriff's Office ran a sting called "Operation Hot Date" and their target was prostitutes and pimps who were using Craig's List to set up ... 's List and negotiated prices for sexual acts between $125 and $800 according to a story at www.tbo.com. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd put some of the blame squarely on the doorstep of California based Craig's List for the problem and despite the lack of customers arrested, Judd said that may change shortly. He claimed to have ...

... role in an accident with a truck in Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Times-Union reported March 9. Officer Amanda Meyer ran her cruiser into a truck that had stopped before ... railroad tracks, causing injuries to her left arm but not to the truck's driver. A FHP spokesperson said Meyer had glanced at a laptop mounted in the cruiser ... so laptops aren't a widespread problem -- except for law enforcement. Law enforcement officers frequently have laptops mounted right in their vehicles, which helps them ...

... a.m. Wednesday, according to John Bankhead, spokesman for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The man was found hanging in the Coverdell Legislative Office Building next to the Capitol. The Magistrate Court of Cobb County issued a criminal warrant for the man Tuesday. The ... . The felony offenses occurred between January 2001 and March 2009, according to the warrant. The Cobb County Sheriff's Office tried to serve the warrant twice Tuesday night, said Nancy Bodiford of the sheriff's department. " ...

... in Metro Atlanta. Two off-duty police officers, Sara Thomas, a GBI agent based in Athens, and Ruth Stringer, a DeKalb County Sheriff's Office ... Leithead, though not for long. In the meantime Stringer had stepped into the women's restroom. It was then that she saw a pair of male feet sticking out from under a ... he had entered the bathroom with the intention of raping the 13-year-old. Both officers displayed presence of mind, great instincts, and a willingness to investigate a questionable situation, ...

... resulting in the inmate's death. Brown allegedly obstructed justice by interfering with the investigations of these incidents. The Fulton County Sheriff's Office has referred allegations of another incident involving detention officer Denita Shaw to federal ... we must remember that press releases by prosecutors often tell only a portion of the story. The full Department of Justice's press release is available here. Relevant articles in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution are available here and here.

... a history of bad decisions and bad choices," the judge reportedly told Hall. "That's very difficult to look past in this kind of a case." Prosecutors told the judge that Hall had ... . Hall then fled the house in her sister's car as her boyfriend placed a call to the sheriff's office, the article said. The deputy that responded to the call who was on his way ... her name and the circumstances under which she drove away from her boyfriend's house. She even said she was pregnant, which it turned out, she ...

... week that while one South Carolina police department was paying an informant to participate in drug deals, another local sheriff's department was expending resources to bust the same informant for committing the very same drug offenses! After the ... Antonio Express News reported that Texas' highest criminal appeals court issued a decision that, in effect, allows police officers to give illegal drugs - even when the drugs are evidence in a case - to informants for their personal use! In this case, ...

... 's why I was surprised to see that the chairman of the county commission for Carroll County, Georgia, in Metro Atlanta, was allowed to drive home after a breath test putting him just under the ... %, less than 0.01% under the limit. Rather than arrest him, the officer let him drive home, a distance of less than two miles, and ... the way home. The officer asked Chappell for the exact time when he had the drink, but the videotape is silent during his answer, which a spokesman for the Sheriff's Department ...

... Georgia does not meet those minimum standards. For example: • District attorneys in metro Atlanta counties such as DeKalb and Fulton routinely offer defendants in capital ... spree that left four people dead, including a judge, his court reporter, a sheriff's deputy and a federal agent. The proceedings have been repeatedly delayed ... involves the fate of Troy Anthony Davis, who was convicted in 1991 of killing a Savannah police officer and has been sitting on death row ever since. Davis was convicted ...