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Chief Mize: Update on Recent TPD Cases
WNEG News spoke recently with Toccoa Chief of Police Jimmy Mize, who provided an update and details on the city police department’s involvement in several recent crimes and investigations in Toccoa and Stephens County. First, Mize spoke of a fatal fentanyl overdose that occurred June 28 at 2:20 p.m....
Northeast Georgia teenager dead after car-church van accident
WLHR Lake Hartwell Radio quotes the Habersham County, Georgia sheriff’s spokesman as saying a teenage boy died Wednesday in an Atlanta healthcare facility, the result of a traffic accident last weekend at Demorest, Georgia. Theodore Bone, 15-year-old resident of the Eastanollee Community in Stephens County, was riding in a church van when the accident occurred on Georgia 365 South. Known as Teddy to his friends and family, Teddy had been placed on life-support. Before Teddy’s passing, Georgia troopers announced the following charges against the driver of the second vehicle, 64-year-old Barry Clark of Hartwell: DUI and failure to obey a traffic control device and serious injury by vehicle.
Saturday Pursuit of Reckless and Dangerous Driver Begins, Ends at Home Depot
UPDATE (07/01/24 12:27 p.m.) – WNEG News has received the booking report for David Justin Freeman. Attached is his booking photo. The charges currently filed against Freeman include:. AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (Felony), OBSTRUCTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS BY USE OF THREATS OR VIOLENCE (Felony), WILLFUL OBSTRUCTION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS...
SCSO, TPD, GSP respond to two local incidents this morning
WNEG News is reporting this morning on two incidents involving law-enforcement officials this morning. In one incident around 10 AM this morning, a vehicle pursuit that reportedly began in the area of The Pointe Church, skirted the Walmart parking lot and ended up in the Home Depot parking lot, resulted in a SCSO vehicle apparently being struck and having to be towed from the location. Also, two Toccoa Police officers received injuries from glass when the window of their patrol vehicle was broken during the attempt to subdue the suspect.
Local Grower’s Market Open Today
The weekly Stephens County Grower’s Market takes place today from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The market, which moved from its location at 325 N. Broad Street in Toccoa earlier this year, is now located adjacent to the Eastanollee Cannery, 582 Eastanollee School Road. According to Cannery manager Richard...
2024 Stephens County Fireworks Display and Independence Day Celebration is this Friday
Next Thursday, July 4, is the 248th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, and this Friday, June 28, Toccoa and Stephens County residents and visitors can get a jump start on the festivities at the Stephens County Fireworks Display and Independence Day Celebration. Hosted by the Stephens...
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