Author: Robert Preston

The old adage goes “the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” Such could be said for Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, armed robbery at McDonald’s in Douglas. The poorly planned robbery ended up landing three people, including one McDonald’s employee, in jail. Jonterria Seay, who worked at the restaurant, allegedly hatched what he thought was a way to pick up a few extra bucks. He knew when the manager left the restaurant with the deposit and he figured if he had a little help, he could get the deposit for himself. According to information obtained…

No matter what happens in two weeks at Super Bowl LIV in Miami, a former Trojan will win a Super Bowl ring. Two former Trojans, the Kansas City Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill and the San Francisco 49ers’ Kentavious Street, will face off against each other in the NFL’s biggest game. Most people are familiar with Hill – the wide receiver is a four-time Pro Bowler, the second highest paid wide receiver in the league, one of the NFL’s most explosive player, and probably the fastest player in the NFL. In his career, he has played in 59 games and caught…

A few good Samaritans saved the life of a child whom they found on a busy state highway on Sunday. The incident happened on Sunday afternoon when several individuals riding in a Chrysler 300 found a small child in the middle of the Fitzgerald Highway at the intersection of Pine Forest Drive in Touchton Woods. One of the individuals in the car, Teezy Fussell, started recording the incident with his phone via Facebook live. According to Fussell in the video, he and his friends found the child in the road. The child, who appeared to be about two years old,…

Tyreek Hill scored two touchdowns and set up a third score in the Kansas City Chiefs’ 35-24 win over the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship game Sunday afternoon. The win sends the Chiefs to Super Bowl LIV on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, in Miami. The Chiefs will face the winner of the NFC Championship game, which is in progress as this story is being posted. The San Francisco 49ers are leading the Green Bay Packers 27-0 at halftime. The Chiefs fell behind the Titans 10-0 then quarterback Patrick Mahomes connected with Hill on an eight-yard touchdown pass with…

The Douglas Police Department has a new officer on patrol. Earlier this week, the police department adopted Mando, an abandoned puppy, as the department’s mascot. On his first assignment, Mando helped recover about $2,500 in stolen money. Thursday morning, Mando received his honorary criminal justice degree from Wiregrass Technical College. He’s still in the early phases of the field training program, a large portion of which is devoted to potty training right now. Chief Shane Edmisten promises that once that’s taken care of, Mando will move on to the next phase of training.

Coffee Trojans offensive coordinator Kevious Johnson has been hired as head football coach of the Turner County Rebels. Coach Johnson has served as the Trojans’ offensive coordinator for the last two seasons. He was also a member of the Coffee coaching staff in 2017, when the Trojans played for a state championship against Lee County. Lee won in overtime. Coach Johnson played high school football for Coffee head coach Robby Pruitt at Fitzgerald High School. He then had a record-setting career as a running back at Wofford. This is Johnson’s first head coaching job. He is one of several Coffee…

Three individuals have been charged in connection with the death of Vann Brown, 39, which occurred at a residence at 1200 Woodrow Harper Road in Ambrose in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. Daniel Anderson, Justin Anderson, and Jason Anderson all turned themselves in to the Coffee County Law Enforcement Center early this afternoon. Jason Anderson has been charged with making false statements and writings. Justin Anderson has been charged with tampering with evidence and making false statements and writings. Daniel Anderson has been charged with reckless conduct. Justin’s and Jason’s charges are felonies while Daniel’s charge is…

A Coffee Correctional Facility inmate has been released from prison after DNA testing showed he was not guilty of the crimes for which he had been convicted, according to the Georgia Innocence Project. According to a post on the Georgia Innocence Project’s Facebook page, Kerry Robinson walked out of CCF a free man on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, after spending 18 years in prison. Robinson was convicted of a 1993 rape and robbery of a woman in Moultrie. He was accused of being one of three men who committed the crimes. On the morning of Jan. 8, a…

Former Coffee Trojan Tyreek Hill has been named one of the Athletes of the Decade by In the Game Magazine. Hill played football and ran track at Coffee High. Underutilized most of his football career, nobody really understood just how talented he was until his senior year in track. He won the 100 and 200 meters at the state track meet as a senior. Later, he missed the national high school 200 meter record by a hundredth of a second. His performances in track and field both as a high school student and in the summer following graduation earned…

I remember Jan. 3, 2000, very well. New Year’s Day was a Saturday. We brought in the new year working feverishly to save files and documents on our home computer in an attempt to salvage what we could from the dreaded Y2K bug that was going to wipe us all off the map. The tragedy that was supposed to be Y2K didn’t happen and we were all still breathing a collective sigh of relief when tragedy of another kind struck. The afternoon of Monday, Jan. 3, 2020, we received word that at least one police officer had been shot…