Macon Water Authority Grand Jury Investigation

Minutes after helping her change a flat tire, 35 year old Shawndarius Deonte Johnson got into the car with the mother of his children and stabbed her repeatedly in front of their 3-year-old daughter. On August 20, 2026, a Bibb County jury convicted Johnson on all...

Jaives Fountain was already sitting in the Bibb County jail when he stabbed a fellow inmate, brandished a shank at a jailer, started a fire, and inappropriately touched a female corrections officer. That pattern, spread across almost a dozen separate criminal cases,...

Dante Ahke Withers, of Ohio, pleaded guilty Friday, August 14, 2026 to one count of Child Molestation. Withers was sentenced by a judge to 20 years, with the first 15 years to serve in confinement, followed by probation. Withers, then 29 years old, met the victim,...

When Caleb Levi Hendrix, 34, told investigators his brakes had locked up as he swerved to avoid a motorcycle, one detail from the crash scene told a different story. The only skid marks on the road belonged to the victim’s father’s vehicle, which came upon the scene...

Frederick Ogletree swore an oath to serve without partiality or malice. Prosecutors say he broke it by choking, tasing, and punching a woman in his custody, then smiling as he locked her in a cell. Ogletree, a former Bibb County jail deputy, pleaded guilty on August...