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Public Safety
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
Latest reporting from the Public Safety desk.
Public Safety
State recovers stolen crypto for Cobb County scam victim
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced his office seized and returned cryptocurrency stolen from a Cobb County resident who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to a fake trading platform, marking the second such recovery in two weeks.
Public Safety
Cobb commissioners approve $2.56M land buy for police annex
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Aug. 26 to purchase a 1.83-acre property at 550 Commerce Park Drive in Marietta for $2.56 million, earmarking it as a future special operations annex for the Cobb Police Department.
Marietta, GA
5:37 pm, August 28, 2026
88°F
Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
Feels like 93° · 31% rain
Public Safety
State recovers stolen crypto for Cobb County scam victim
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced his office seized and returned cryptocurrency stolen from a Cobb County resident who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to a fake trading platform, marking the second such recovery in two weeks.
Public Safety
Cobb commissioners approve $2.56M land buy for police annex
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Aug. 26 to purchase a 1.83-acre property at 550 Commerce Park Drive in Marietta for $2.56 million, earmarking it as a future special operations annex for the Cobb Police Department.
Marietta, GA
5:37 pm, August 28, 2026
88°F
Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
Feels like 93° · 31% rain
Public Safety
State recovers stolen crypto for Cobb County scam victim
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced his office seized and returned cryptocurrency stolen from a Cobb County resident who lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to a fake trading platform, marking the second such recovery in two weeks.
Public Safety
Cobb commissioners approve $2.56M land buy for police annex
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously on Aug. 26 to purchase a 1.83-acre property at 550 Commerce Park Drive in Marietta for $2.56 million, earmarking it as a future special operations annex for the Cobb Police Department.
Marietta, GA
5:37 pm, August 28, 2026
88°F
Chance Showers And Thunderstorms
Feels like 93° · 31% rain
Public Safety
Cobb jail's Bond Beyond Bars reunites mothers with their children
The Cobb County Sheriff's Office held its second Bond Beyond Bars completion event of 2026 on Aug. 20, reuniting incarcerated mothers who earned GEDs and workforce certifications with their children for a rare contact visit at the detention center in Marietta.
Public Safety
Failed pump dumps 25,000 gallons of sewage into Olley Creek, killing fish in Cobb County's largest 2026 spill
A construction-site pump failure sent 25,000 gallons of sewage into Olley Creek on Aug. 15, the largest spill in Cobb County's ongoing 2026 overflow series, killing fish and producing elevated E. coli readings discovered during routine monitoring two days later.
Public Safety
Cobb County man sentenced to life without parole plus 490 years for raping, sexually exploiting infant
Marcel Moreland, 27, was sentenced to life without parole plus 490 years in Cobb Superior Court after pleading guilty to 25 felony counts of rape, child molestation, incest and sexual exploitation of an infant who was abused from one month to six months old.
Public Safety
Accused serial rapist faces 25-plus victims across Cobb, Douglas, Paulding since 1988
Bobby Lee Hart Jr., 53, faces indictments in Cobb, Douglas and Paulding counties for at least 25 alleged rapes and sexual assaults along the Highway 92 corridor dating to 1988; he has been held without bond at the Cobb County Jail since Feb. 6.
Public Safety
Powder Springs man charged with DUI near Sprayberry High School
A Powder Springs man was arrested on DUI charges near the Sprayberry High School intersection in East Cobb on Monday, Aug. 17, two weeks into the new school year.
Public Safety
Cobb burglary suspect linked to NASCAR legend Greg Biffle's home break-in
Cobb County Police linked a Stone Mountain man jailed for a Smyrna burglary to the break-in at late NASCAR driver Greg Biffle's North Carolina home, with investigators saying the suspect monitored news and social media to target homes left vacant after tragedies.
Public Safety
Northeast Cobb man arrested after months of alleged stalking, court order violations
Robert Steven Read, 55, of Worley Road in Northeast Cobb was arrested Monday on a misdemeanor stalking charge after allegedly spending months following and contacting a woman in violation of a Cobb Superior Court protective order.
Public Safety
Albany police employee denied bail in Cobb County child molestation case
A telecommunications specialist employed by the Albany, New York, Police Department faces two felony child molestation charges after allegedly molesting a girl under 16 at the SpringHill Suites hotel pool on Interstate North Parkway; he was arrested Monday, Aug. 10, after also refusing to comply with a Cobb County police traffic stop.
Public Safety
Man identified, charged in Smyrna road rage pistol-whipping
Smyrna police identified and charged Frederick Hammonds with felony aggravated battery in connection with a June 27 road rage attack near Cumberland Boulevard and Cobb Parkway in which a driver was pistol-whipped and hospitalized for surgery.
Public Safety
Palmetto woman faces four new stalking charges after alleged bond violations in East Cobb case
A Palmetto woman is held without bond at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center on four new felony aggravated stalking charges after allegedly contacting an East Cobb man with threatening "black magic" messages, violating bond conditions from a prior 2025 stalking case involving the same victim off Murdock Road.
Public Safety
Cobb schools acknowledge threat was made in Campbell Middle gun incident
The Cobb County School District told Campbell Middle School families that a gun confiscated from a student on Aug. 12 was not used in any threat, but investigators later confirmed a threat was made after a parent reported his son was told "I'll shoot you" by the armed classmate.
Public Safety
Judge denies bond for former Ridgeview employee accused of assaulting teen patient
A Cobb County judge denied bond Aug. 12 to Jalen Pugh, 25, a former Ridgeview Institute employee accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old patient at the Smyrna mental health facility, as detectives investigate possible additional victims.
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