Agents from the GBI bomb disposal unit were called to D&R Mini Storage off Veterans Parkway near Grove Street Monday after suspicious materials were found in a storage unit there. Chief Belinda Penamon of the…
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Between Monday, May 1 and Sunday, May 8 the Barnesville Police Department made the following arrests:
After a four-day trial that included often excruciating testimony of child abuse, a Lamar County couple was found guilty of beating a two-month-old girl, causing horrific injures to her little body. The jury returned guilty…
Between Friday, April 28 and Thursday, May 4 the following were processed through the Lamar County jail:
Between Sunday, April 16 and Sunday, April 23 the Barnesville Police Department made the following arrests:
A Lamar County jury found two defendants charged with violent abuse against a two-month-old girl guilty on all seven counts they faced Thursday afternoon. The jury returned the verdicts after deliberating for three hours and 40 minutes.
Jessica Miranda Coffey and Phillip Luke Norman were each found guilty of three counts first degree cruelty to children, one count second degree cruelty to children and three counts of aggravated battery against the baby. Testimony revealed that Coffey was the mother of the child but Norman was not the biological father.
Assistant district attorney Wayne Jernigan asked for a sentence of at least 29 years in prison- one for each broken bone the child suffered.
Judge Bill Fears sentenced both Norman and Coffey to 60 years in prison and 60 years on probation.
For much more, see the 5.2.23 print edition of The Herald Gazette.
Between Friday, April 14 and Thursday, April 20 the following were processed through the Lamar County jail:
A couple charged with beating their two-month-old daughter to the point she suffered 27 fractures and bone injuries are on tial this week in Lamar superior court. Jury selection began Monday. One of the older…