Author: Robert Preston

Adam John Lee of Broxton is missing and several agencies are looking for him. According to a tweet posted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Lee was last seen at his home on Highway 268 West on May 20, 2020. He has ties to Coffee, Atkinson, Ware, and Wilcox counties. Additionally, he has family in Indiana. Lee is described as a white male, 30 years old, with blue eyes, and red/auburn hair. He stands 6’3” and weighs 200 pounds. If you have any information regarding Lee’s whereabouts or the circumstances that led to his disappearance, contact the GBI’s tip line…

Adam John Lee of Broxton is missing and several agencies are looking for him. According to a tweet posted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Lee was last seen at his home on Highway 268 West on May 20, 2020. He has ties to Coffee, Atkinson, Ware, and Wilcox counties. Additionally, he has family in Indiana. Lee is described as a white male, 30 years old, with blue eyes, and red/auburn hair. He stands 6’3” and weighs 200 pounds. If you have any information regarding Lee’s whereabouts or the circumstances that led to his disappearance, contact the GBI’s tip line…

Adam John Lee of Broxton is missing and several agencies are looking for him. According to a tweet posted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Lee was last seen at his home on Highway 268 West on May 20, 2020. He has ties to Coffee, Atkinson, Ware, and Wilcox counties. Additionally, he has family in Indiana. Lee is described as a white male, 30 years old, with blue eyes, and red/auburn hair. He stands 6’3” and weighs 200 pounds. If you have any information regarding Lee’s whereabouts or the circumstances that led to his disappearance, contact the GBI’s tip line…

Adam John Lee of Broxton is missing and several agencies are looking for him. According to a tweet posted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Lee was last seen at his home on Highway 268 West on May 20, 2020. He has ties to Coffee, Atkinson, Ware, and Wilcox counties. Additionally, he has family in Indiana. Lee is described as a white male, 30 years old, with blue eyes, and red/auburn hair. He stands 6’3” and weighs 200 pounds. If you have any information regarding Lee’s whereabouts or the circumstances that led to his disappearance, contact the GBI’s tip line…

Adam John Lee of Broxton is missing and several agencies are looking for him. According to a tweet posted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Lee was last seen at his home on Highway 268 West on May 20, 2020. He has ties to Coffee, Atkinson, Ware, and Wilcox counties. Additionally, he has family in Indiana. Lee is described as a white male, 30 years old, with blue eyes, and red/auburn hair. He stands 6’3” and weighs 200 pounds. If you have any information regarding Lee’s whereabouts or the circumstances that led to his disappearance, contact the GBI’s tip line…

A tractor-trailer accident blocked Highway 268 between Ambrose and Broxton for several hours Tuesday afternoon. The truck, owned by Averitt Express of Cookeville, Tenn., was heading east on 268 and apparently left the right side of the roadway. As the driver attempted to correct the vehicle, it crossed the left-hand lane, the trailer rolled on its side, and the truck drove down into the ditch before coming to rest in a wooded area. The trailer blocked both lanes until wreckers from American Truck Parts of Douglas could get it moved. Officers from the Georgia Department of Transportation, Coffee County Sheriff’s…

Two reports of large predators, both posted on social media over the weekend, have people in South Georgia talking. One is a photo of a panther allegedly taken on a trail camera near Rebecca while the other is of a black bear seen in Coffee County. While reports of bear sightings in Coffee County are rare, it is entirely plausible that bears exist here. The panther photo, however, is more problematic. First, the bear. Demetrianaa Michelle posted the photo to her Facebook account. DouglasNow.com sent Demetrianaa a message seeking more information about the photo and where exactly it…

A Wednesday afternoon shooting in eastern Coffee County resulted in an armed standoff between the alleged shooter and officers from multiple law enforcement agencies, eventually ending peacefully. The shooting took place in a mobile home park off Clyde Kirkland Road east of Douglas. According to sources, the alleged shooter is Eric Chestnut, 21, of Douglas. He allegedly shot Shanna Shelton, his pregnant girlfriend, in the lower jaw. Shelton was able to flee the scene, where she was eventually picked up by an ambulance. An Air-Evac helicopter later transported Shelton to a trauma center in Savannah. Officers from the…

Greg Roberts, a Douglas native and graduate of Coffee High School and then-South Georgia College, has been hired as the head baseball coach at Brunswick High School, according to a story published in The Brunswick News earlier this week. Roberts has coached at Frederica Academy (2012-2014 and 2018-2020) and Glynn Academy (2015-2017). According to the story, Roberts is the only person to have served as head baseball coach at all three Glynn County schools. Roberts has coached at Coffee High School and later at Citizens Christian Academy, where he was head baseball and softball coach. Roberts won state titles in…

The Feb. 23, 2020, shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, in Brunswick keeps getting closer and closer to Coffee County. First, Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney George Barnhill was asked to take the case and ultimately recused himself – but not before offering an opinion on the case, stating that he felt as though Arbery’s shooting was legally justified. Late last week, media outlets released additional video footage showing what Arbery was doing moments before Greg and Travis McMichael chased him down in a pick-up truck and shot him dead in the street. The new footage shows Arbery in…