Investigators with the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office are reporting the arrests of three people in connection with a string of burglaries which occurred during the months of June and July. On August 1, officials received information about individuals that could be involved in these burglaries and, as a result of this information, investigators arrested Carlos Refugio Diaz, Zeke Williams Buttz and Ashton Mikelle Solomon for their involvement. In a press release issued by the sheriff’s office this weeks, law enforcement officials stated crime victims around the county reported that unknown suspects had entered their residences and taken items that included…
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James Jacobs, the husband of Diana Jacobs, the caretaker recently arrested in connection with a body discovered at Rosewood Manor assisted living home in Nicholls, has also been arrested and charged with financial fraud in connection with the same case. Sheriff’s officials released information Friday morning, August 15, stating investigators with the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office received information that led to the location of James Jacobs in Pierce County. Jacobs was wanted for questioning in regards to the August 8 incident in Nicholls, where the body that investigators believe to be that of Alexander Hunt was found buried in a…
Congregants of Faith Chapel Church on Mahogany Road say their prayers were answered last Saturday when Joseph Mark Dube turned himself in to authorities, confessing to two incidents in which the church was burglarized. Representatives with the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office report on August 3, 2014, a burglary was reported at Faith Chapel. Deputies arrived at the scene, where they were met by a member of the church who stated he observed the back door open when he arrived that morning. Upon further investigation, he discovered a window at the rear of the church had been broken. It was later…
The Valdosta State University Red Hot team, the danceline for the VSU Blazers, recently competed at the National Dance Camp in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, taking home the first place overall trophy for Division I schools. The Red Hots beat out teams from the University of Kentucky and the University of Georgia, among others, and have earned a full paid bid to the upcoming national competition. Coffee County natives Hannah Hulsey is pictured here on the second row, far right, along with Lexie Curles, second row, fourth from right.
An employee with Rosewood Manor, an assisited living home in Nicholls, has been charged with one count of concealing a dead body after authorities located the remains of a male body adjacent to the facility’s property last Friday. Diana Marie Malphus Jacobs was taken into custody following the incident last Friday evening, August 8, after telling authorities she was aware of the body being buried on the property. At the time, officials did not state whether Jacobs would be charged with a crime. Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, along with the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office, conducted a search…
Coffee County Sheriff Doyle Wooten has confirmed an inmate assigned to a work detail at the Child Advocacy Center in Douglas walked off from his work detail this afternoon and is still missing. The inmate, identified as 36-year-old Gabriel Benjamin Carelock, was assigned to a work a detail remodeling the Child Advocacy Center and had been on the detail for three weeks. Sheriff Wooten stated the guard assigned to Carelock told the sheriff Carelock had stepped outside to saw some plywood and took flight. Carelock was incarcerated on a contempt order for child support and traffic violations. He is not…
It’s a rare occasion when I pen an article using a first-person format. Due to the nature of this piece, however, I find it not only necessary, but really the only way of conveying the message to the reader. DouglasNow.com officially kicked off its web presence midnight, June 23, 2014. Since that time, we have experienced growth, readership, support, revenue and a tremendous amount of positive feedback which has exceeded anything we could have fathomed. To put it in perspective, in the last month, July 8-Aug. 7, DouglasNow.com has received 79, 941 ‘page views,’ according to an analysis provided by…
Law enforcement officials confirmed late Friday night that the remains of a human body were discovered adjacent to an assisted living home in Nicholls. Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, along with the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office, were conducting a search and excavation at an outbuilding located on the property of Rosewood Manor, 1107 Tanner Avenue, where the remains were found. Officials with the sheriff’s office stated they had received a tip that the body of a male may have been buried on the property. The name and age of the deceased has not been divulged at this time,…
A collaborative effort on the parts of the Douglas/Coffee County Drug Unit (DCDU) and the Douglas Police Department last week resulted in the discovery of multiple bags of marijuana set to be distributed and the arrest of one Coffee County man. Authorities report that around 6:30 p.m., July 29, the DCDU was contacted by the police department to assist with a case being investigated at a residence inside the city limits. Drug agents, along with the assistance of the local police, conducted a search of the home and were able to locate 17 bags of suspected marjuana packaged for distribution.…
Getting arrested is never fun. Getting arrested for allegedly urinating on your mother’s property in plain view of the general public is, well, just embarrassing. However, this is exactly what happened to 48-year-old Carlos Defranco Jackson last week. Officers with the Douglas Police Department responded to an address on South Pearl Avenue at around four o’clock in the afternoon, where they were meant by a complainant who advised Jackson had been drinking all day and, as stated in the official report, “he has been peeing on his mother’s property.” The complainant told police he wanted Mr. Jackson removed from the…