Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
DeKalb County Fire Rescue, which serves Dunwoody and Brookhaven, broke ground Sept. 24 on a $10 million-plus fire station in Decatur, one of three new SPLOST-funded facilities under construction across the county.
Public Safety
DeKalb County Fire Rescue, which serves Dunwoody and Brookhaven, broke ground Sept. 24 on a $10 million-plus fire station in Decatur, one of three new SPLOST-funded facilities under construction across the county.
DeKalb County Fire Rescue, which serves Dunwoody and Brookhaven, broke ground Sept. 24 on a $10 million-plus fire station in Decatur, one of three new SPLOST-funded facilities under construction across the county.
Public Safety
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation charged five DeKalb County Jail inmates with malice murder in the Sept. 23 death of David Addo-Wright, a 24-year-old Covington man killed less than 48 hours after his first arrest, as the family's attorney alleges broken locks and unchecked gang activity inside the jail.
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A DeKalb County grand jury indicted former police Sgt. Cameron Livsey, 47, on rape, kidnapping and armed robbery charges after a DNA match linked him to the 2011 sexual assault of two teenage girls at Exchange Park.
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The Dunwoody Police Department issued a safety alert urging residents, especially young women and girls, to be cautious of strangers claiming to represent modeling agencies who may try to lure targets to hotels or private locations.
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Georgia Power confirmed hackers accessed names, addresses, phone numbers, emails and partial Social Security numbers for about 300,000 customers through its online portal, and the company is offering one year of free credit monitoring through Equifax.
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Brookhaven Police are investigating a Saturday evening shooting at the Parke Towne North apartments on N Cliff Valley Way that left an 18-year-old with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Five new measles cases in an unvaccinated Jasper County family pushed Georgia's 2026 total to 21, the highest in a decade, prompting DeKalb Public Health to urge Dunwoody and Brookhaven parents to verify their children's MMR vaccination status.
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DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston and Dunwoody Police Chief Mike Carlson visited Perimeter Mall on Sept. 28 as part of National Store Walk Month, an annual initiative pairing prosecutors with retailers to address theft.
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Moses Robinson, 67, of Decatur was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to a 1990 rape that went unsolved for 36 years until a 2019 DNA match through Georgia's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative identified him.
Public Safety
A federal lawsuit alleging Flock license-plate reader data led to an Army veteran's wrongful arrest and 30-day jailing adds new context to Dunwoody's $200,000 expansion of its Flock Safety partnership, approved in April over resident privacy objections.
Public Safety
DeKalb County Police Department Sgt. T. Cribbs, who serves in the Special Victims Unit, won both the large-agency and overall Supervisor of the Year awards from the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police at a Sept. 21 ceremony in Savannah.
Public Safety
DeKalb County breaks ground Thursday on Fire Station No. 16, an $11.1 million SPLOST-funded facility in Decatur with separated zones to reduce firefighters' cancer risk, replacing a station built in 1967.
Public Safety
Dunwoody police arrested a man accused of stealing a firearm from Academy Sports + Outdoors off Perimeter Center Parkway on Thursday morning; Sandy Springs police assisted in the search, and the suspect is being held at DeKalb County Jail with no charges yet specified.
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