Crime
Posted under Crime, Police on November 5th, 2008 by PolkNewswire
A shooting in Aragon left a 14- year old boy dead and a 15 year-old detained by the Police Wednesday afternoon around 4pm.
Police and GBI officials were on the scene on Bellview Rd. which runs off New Prospect Rd. at 5:30pm investigating.
While police have not identified either of the individuals, they are questioning the 15 [...]
Posted under Crime, Police on September 13th, 2008 by PolkNewswire
By PNW Reporter Hayden Jennings
Polk County Authorities along with the GBI are investigating a triple shooting Friday Night in Rockmart.
The original call to Polk 911 occurred around 9:51 PM when someone reported hearing 6 shots in the area of Church St. and Bluff St. Just after this, another complaintant reported that there were two victims [...]
Posted under Crime on September 5th, 2008 by PolkNewswire
A drifter who has lived between Cedartown and Chatsworth in recent months has been arrested in Calhoun County in connection with the armed robbery at the Smart Mart on US 27 south in Cedartown Tuesday.
29 year old William D. Graham is alleged to have threatened a clerk with a knife before fleeing in with a [...]
Posted under Crime on August 5th, 2008 by PolkNewswire
A shooting in Polk County has sent one person to the hospital with what are considered serious injuries after being shot several times.
Cedartown police responded to a home on Marietta Street after they received a call that shots had been fired.
When officers arrived on the scene, they were unable to find any one.
Shortly after, police [...]
Posted under Bartow County, Crime, Police on July 30th, 2008 by PolkNewswire
An Acworth Man has been arrested in connection with possession of child porn.
According Sheriff Millsap, sheriff’s investigators working with
an investigator from Smyrna Police Department, a member of The Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, served a search warrant at 4457 Seneca Lane, Acworth Georgia Wednesday Afternoon after an approximately month long [...]
Posted under Crime, Education on July 26th, 2008 by PolkNewswire
A Georgia Highlands student was arrested Friday and charged with hacking into the college’s computer network for the purpose of allegedly changing his grade.
According to law enforcement officials, the student, now identified as 19 year old Christopher Fowler of Bartow County was arrested in Cartersville by agents from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the [...]
Posted under Bartow County, Crime on July 14th, 2008 by PolkNewswire
An Atlanta man has turned himself into the Bartow County Sheriffs Office in connection with the theft of approximately 77,000.00 dollars worth of household goods and furnishings.
According to Sheriff Clark Millsap, David Newton Smith, 50 years of age, of 302 Perimeter Center North, Atlanta was moving household items for a couple in Bartow County on [...]
