16 Postal Service workers took bribes to deliver cocaine
Prosecutors say 16 U.S. Postal Service workers in the Atlanta area have been sentenced to federal prison for accepting bribes to deliver cocaine.
The AJC cites a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia in a Wednesday report. The office’s statement says some workers took bribes as small as $250 and that each was ordered to serve sentences between 3 and 9 years.
Prosecutors say federal agents learned about the postal workers in 2015 while investigating a drug trafficking organization in Atlanta. They say traffickers believed the workers were less likely to be caught by authorities.
To apprehend the 16 people, agents had posed as traffickers seeking postal employees while law enforcement officials recorded the interactions.
Police: 9-year-old shot by relative on Thanksgiving
Police say a 9-year-old boy has been fatally shot by an adult relative.
Savannah police spokeswoman Bianca Johnson tells the Savannah Morning News that Gabriel Early was mortally wounded on Thanksgiving day and died at a hospital. She says police determined he was shot by a relative, and there was no apparent malicious intent.
She says the relative has not been arrested, but the case will be presented to a Chatham County grand jury.
Student: Loaded gun was for protection from dog
Police say an 18-yearold brought a gun to his high school and told officers it was for protection from an aggressive neighborhood dog.
Roberta Police Chief Ty B. Matthews tells The Telegraph that Terry Knolton was arrested Tuesday and charged with having a gun on school grounds.
Matthews says Knolton told officers he was “going to do something” about the dog, and didn’t mean to bring the gun to school.