Author: Staff Reports

The CCA Patriots went 2-1 in three games this week while the Lady Patriots were a perfect 2-0. On Tuesday, both teams played Memorial Day School. For the girls, it was a match-up of #5 (CCA) vs. #4 (Memorial Day). The Lady Patriots won 55-50 in overtime. At the end of the third quarter, CCA was down 11 points but a big 20-point fourth quarter tied the game at the end of regulation. The Lady Patriots lost starter Brilyn Waldron to a concussion early in the overtime period. Three girls scored double digits (Arabelle Roberts, Ava Vickers, and Abrah Harris).…

At last weekend’s Valdosta State University Hall of Fame induction ceremony, three individuals who have either played or coached for the Coffee Trojans were inducted as a part of the 2018 VSU Blazers National Champion football team. Linebacker Jameon Gaskin and defensive lineman Javionte Martin, both former Trojans and freshmen on the championship team; and defensive back Alex Brown, a Lowndes Viking who is now a Coffee assistant coach, were on the team in 2018. All three played as freshmen and contributed to the Blazers’ national title run. Gaskin was named the Gulf South Conference’s Defensive Freshman of the Year…

A disorderly person call at the Dollar General in Broxton took a bizarre turn on Friday night when the subject, James Brent Morton, 49, of Broxton, allegedly pulled a handgun on a police officer then fled the scene. According to an incident report from the Broxton Police Department, a Broxton police officer responded to the call and found several people arguing at the store. The officer asked everyone to be quiet and then had Morton step to the side with him. The report says that the officer could smell alcohol on Morton’s breath and Morton appeared to be intoxicated. The…

Earlier this month, an inmate who had been released from Coffee Correctional Facility in Nicholls was transported to the Coffee County Jail on a warrant from Orange County, Florida. According to a sheriff’s office report, Ashton Marotta, 20, was wanted out of Orange County for trafficking 28 grams or more of fentanyl, possession of a firearm by a person found to have committed a delinquent act, and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The warrants were issued by Orange County on April 4, 2023. Marotta was taken to the Coffee County Jail from CCF on January 7,…

A 45-year-old was arrested after he allegedly called 911 twice to falsely report people were in his home and hiding under his home. The subject, identified as Jeremy Joseph Noyes, 45, remains in the Coffee County Jail. An incident report from the sheriff’s office states that on January 11, 2025, in the early morning hours, Noyes called 911 and reported that three or four men had come into his home and forced him to leave. Noyes added that one of the men was still inside hiding under a bed. Deputies responded and did not find anyone at the home. While…

An Ambrose man was jailed and later released on January 15, 2025, after he allegedly pulled a gun on another person during an argument because, as the suspect stated in the report, “he wasn’t going to let anybody whoop his ass.” On the morning of January 15, deputies responded to Curtis Vickers Road in response to an individual with a weapon, an incident report from the sheriff’s office states. According to the report, Tommy Jowers, 70, had gotten into an argument with the victim inside the Ambrose store around 8:30 a.m. when Jowers pulled a .22 handgun out of his…

An 18-year-old and a 20-year-old are in jail on aggravated assault charges after one of them allegedly fired multiple shots into a vehicle and a home in Sleepy Hollow Mobile Home Park on Saturday, January 18, 2025. According to an incident report from the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office, Cupris Morgan, 18, and Larry Daniel, 20, were in a silver Cadillac when one of them allegedly fired multiple shots into a vehicle which was pulling into a home at the mobile home park. According to the report, bullets also struck the home next door. The report states that the owner of…

Saturday night at Valdosta State University, Dr. June Munford of Coffee County was inducted into the Valdosta State University Hall of Fame. Dr. Munford, a first baseman, played baseball for the Blazers from 1983-1984 following two years at Middle Georgia College (now Macon State University). He capped his MGC career with a 1982 JUCO World Series national championship in Grand Junction, Colorado. According to a press release from VSU, Dr. Munford’s two seasons with the Blazers included a run at a national championship in 1983. That year, VSU finished third in California with a 45-14-1 record. Valdosta State won the…

A Douglas police officer who stopped a vehicle on the West Green Highway for driving without a tag found more than he expected. An incident report from the Douglas Police Department states that at noon on January 9, 2025, a DPD officer saw a Nissan Pathfinder driving on East Ward Street with no tag. He stopped the Pathfinder on the West Green Highway and spoke with the driver, identified as Anthony Santino Jimenez, 39, of Alma. The officer ran Jimenez’s license through 911 and found that he had two warrants for his arrest – one for battery and another for…

Friday morning, state troopers and deputies in Jeff Davis County arrested three Coffee County residents after one of the suspects had fled the Bacon County Hospital the previous night. According to the Jeff Davis County Sheriff’s Office, early Friday morning, Jeff Davis officials received a be on the lookout from Bacon County regarding a Coffee County man that left the hospital in Alma in connection to a drug trafficking investigation. Officers stated he may be hiding in Jeff Davis County. At approximately 11 a.m., troopers from the Georgia State Patrol noticed a vehicle matching the description of the car from…