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Information from the Tift County Sheriff's Office- On Tuesday, May 7, 2013, the Mid-South Narcotics Task Force along with the Tift County Sheriff's Office served a search warrant on the residence of 36More >>
The Mid-South Narcotics Task Force and the Tift County Sheriff's Office arrested 36 year old Daniel Eubanks, and seized over $100K in cash.More >>
Tuesday, May 21 2013 12:38 PM EDT2013-05-21 16:38:05 GMT
Blake Samples, 34, is charged with the murder of Dusty Carroll in Colquitt County. Carroll died after being shot on April 28 at the residence of Samples' ex-wife. Carroll drove himself to the hospital,More >>
Blake Samples, 34, is charged with the murder of Dusty Carroll in Colquitt County.More >>
Tuesday, May 21 2013 12:34 PM EDT2013-05-21 16:34:44 GMT
The Albany Police Department's Criminal Investigative Bureau would like to solicit the public's assistance with locating Kizzie Lashay Coleman, 21. She is 5'7" and weighs 176 pounds. The Albany PoliceMore >>
The Albany Police Department's Criminal Investigative Bureau would like to solicit the public's assistance with locating Kizzie Lashay Coleman, 21. She is 5'7" and weighs 176 pounds.More >>
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The Red Cross has an interactive system to let loved ones know their status. You can list yours, and search for others at this website....More >>
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August 8, 2005
Americus- Americus and Sumter County law enforcers are now double checking the backgrounds of people they arrest after a mistake in May helped put a sex offender back on the street.
Fred Revels was arrested for attacking at nurse at Sumter Regional Hospital the day after he got out of Reidsville State Prison. No one ran a background check, so no one realized Revels just finished a five year sentence for child molestation.
He got out the next day on bond and a week later was arrested for attacking another woman on Lee Street in Americus. So that doesn't happen again, the police department and sheriff's office changed their policies.
"We put a redundant system in," said Americus Police Chief, James Green. "We'll run a check on every person we arrest and then when they're delivered to the sheriff's department for incarceration, they'll do a background check also to make sure."
At first, officers didn't know Rogers was on probation either, because of a clerical error made in the probation office when Rogers was convicted 5 years ago. No one will be disciplined for either of the mistakes.
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