Author: Staff Reports

The last time the CCA Patriots and the First Preparatory Christian Highlanders met on the field of play, a state basketball championship was on the line. The Highlanders weathered the Patriot storm and won the game – and the championship – on the Columbus State University campus a few weeks ago. But now it’s baseball season and things are different. CCA showed that Wednesday afternoon in Douglas when the Patriots defeated the Highlanders 15-0 in four innings. Junior Blake Bryant threw a 37-pitch, four-inning no-hitter to put an exclamation point on CCA’s first win of the season. The Patriots scored…

A Coffee Correctional Facility employee was arrested and jailed on multiple charges after she allegedly reported for work smelling like marijuana. According to a press release from the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office, on March 10, 2025, deputies were dispatched to the Coffee Correctional Facility in Nicholls following reports from the onsite K-9 unit regarding an employee who arrived for duty with a strong odor of marijuana. The sergeant and K-9 handler on duty made contact with 22-year-old Norshaaliyah Carswell. Upon approaching her vehicle, the K-9 indicated a positive alert for the presence of drugs. This prompted the deputies to conduct…

A seemingly benign traffic stop that took place on March 11, 2025, at around 10 p.m. in Broxton ended up being something much, much more. According to an incident report from the Broxton Police Department, Broxton PD officers stopped a vehicle on 441 North near the Dollar General store. The reason for the stop was an alleged cell phone violation. During the stop, officers discovered three pounds of marijuana laced with narcotics wrapped in green indoor/outdoor carpet, a cell phone, and a very advanced drone. The investigation revealed that, using the drone, the drugs were going to be smuggled into…

A 19-year-old Douglas man was arrested after he allegedly fired multiple shots into his ex-girlfriend’s car, the last shot of which he fired at the car in the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office parking lot, then fled to Coweta County where he was eventually apprehended. No one was injured in the shooting. According to an incident report from the Douglas Police Department, on March 10, 2025, at around 1:30 a.m., Marcus Bernard Walker, 19, saw his ex-girlfriend at the Jet Foods store on Bowens Mill Road SW. Two other individuals were in the vehicle with the ex-girlfriend, a male and a…

Two individuals have been arrested and charged cruelty to children in the 1st degree, aggravated battery, felony murder, and malice murder in connection to the death of a four-year-old little girl. On March 14, 2025, at 7:46 p.m., officers with the Toombs County Sheriff’s Office received a call in reference to an unresponsive child. The caller said she was on the way to the hospital from her home. EMS responded and intercepted the vehicle at the Enmarket store located on West Liberty Street and South Victory Drive in Lyons. EMS took the child into their care and began life-saving measures…

A 60-year-old Douglas man who was released from federal prison on Friday, March 14, 2025, was booked into the Coffee County Jail the same day on charges stemming from an incident that took place before he began serving his federal sentence. Kyle Banner Waldron, 60, pleaded guilty to money laundering in April of last year after an investigation by the IRS and Secret Service determined that Waldron submitted at least 20 different PPP or EIDL applications on behalf of multiple businesses and individuals. To obtain loan funds, Waldron submitted multiple fake IRS forms in support of the funding applications and…

It’s not often that you see a tie in baseball but that’s exactly what happened Thursday afternoon on the CCA campus when the Patriots faced the Deerfield-Windsor Knights. The score was tied 5-5 when an afternoon thunderstorm rolled in, resulting in umpires calling the game at the end of the seventh inning. The game was the third straight home game negatively affected by the weather this season. Though there was no winner, the big takeaway is the Patriots battled from a 5-0 deficit to tie the game before the showers came. The Knights jumped out to a 5-0 lead after…

Earlier this month, a Douglas man was arrested and charged with a felony after he allegedly posted an explicit video on social media of a woman without her permission. On March 1, 2025, a deputy responded to a call to meet a complainant. When the deputy arrived, she met with a female who said that Benny Bolen, 44, of Douglas, had posted the video to Facebook, according to an incident report from the sheriff’s office. She told the officer that she was unaware that Bolen had made the recording and she certainly hadn’t given him permission to post it where…

A traffic stop that took place on March 3, 2025, just before 2 a.m. resulted in the arrest of an individual who had items in her vehicle that officers suspected were going to be given to inmates. According to an incident report from the sheriff’s office, a deputy was assisting another officer on a traffic stop on the 206 Connector on the above date when a vehicle pulled into a driveway before getting to the scene of the traffic stop. The report states that the officer believed the driver of the vehicle was attempting to avoid riding by the traffic…

On March 4, 2025, at approximately 4 p.m., a deputy responded to an animal cruelty call and found eight small dogs living in an old house that was covered in feces and urine. According to a report from the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office, a deputy arrived at the home at an Elzie Anderson Road address and heard multiple dogs in the home. The officer could also smell urine and feces from outside of the house. The deputy called animal control and the owners of the home. The homeowner gave animal control and the deputy permission to enter the house. There…