Month: December 2025

By Alvieann Chandler, Chase Houle, WXIA Staff

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    NEWTON COUNTY, Georgia (WXIA) — The escaped Rockdale County inmate who fled from Grady Hospital earlier this week and stole two vehicles was taken into custody in Newton County on Wednesday morning, according to deputies.

The three-day manhunt spanned multiple metro Atlanta areas, including Henry County, Newton County, Rockdale County, and Fulton County.

In a press conference on Wednesday, the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office said the inmate, Timothy Shane, was taken to Grady Hospital on Sunday evening after an attempted suicide. The following day, Shane fled from the hospital and stole two vehicles in the process, deputies said.

Deputies said he crashed the first vehicle, an SUV he stole near the hospital, into another vehicle at Peachtree Street and Ralph McGill Boulevard in Atlanta. Officials said no one was hurt in that incident. However, the owner of the stolen vehicle informed law enforcement that a handgun was missing from the stolen vehicle, leading deputies to consider Shane to be armed and dangerous, according to Rockdale County officials.

That night, Rockdale County officials said he was later seen on video footage stealing a silver Pontiac Grand Prix near the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which was later seen in Henry County, at the Publix on Highway 155.

Later, officials said they learned Shane was picked up by an Uber driver in the Publix parking lot and dropped off at a house he had connections with in Rockdale County.

Officials said they obtained a search warrant for the house and went to execute it, but Shane was not located.

According to officials, he then contacted a rideshare that picked him up on Old Monticello Way in Newton County. This is when Rockdale County contacted the Convington Police Department for assistance.

It was later reported that multiple residents began calling 911, reporting a suspicious man in the area in Newton County. K-9 Units were deployed to track in that area, and they were able to later confirm that the suspicious man was Shane, according to Rockdale County officials.

Deputies said Shane was captured in the 9000 block of Morris Drive in Newton County on Wednesday morning after receiving notification that he was seen knocking on doors.

The Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office said it is initiating an internal investigation into how Shane was able to get away from law enforcement.

According to Rockdale County officials, the deputy who was with Shane at the hospital when he escaped has been placed on administrative leave.

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By Cody Alcorn

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    EAST POINT, Georgia (WXIA) — A welfare check on Thanksgiving at a gas station in East Point led police to uncover an alleged multi-county human trafficking operation involving several metro Atlanta hotels.

Marlandow Jeffries, 45, and Lashandra Walker, 47, are both charged with trafficking a person for sexual servitude.

According to their arrest warrant, East Point Police officers were called to the Chevron gas station on Virginia Avenue on Nov. 27, where a woman was found hiding in a locked bathroom, yelling that she needed help.

Police said she told officers she had been trafficked for weeks across the metro area and asked to retrieve her belongings from a nearby hotel room.

Officers traced her back to the Country Inn & Suites by Radisson on Hardin Avenue, where staff confirmed the room she had stayed in had been repeatedly rebooked under the name of a woman investigators later identified as Lashandra Walker.

The hotel also confirmed another person listed on the room, Marlandow Kentrel “Orlando” Jeffries had left before officers arrived.

According to the warrant, officers documented CashApp and Chime transactions tied to the operation and collected photos, ads, text messages and hotel records as evidence.

Investigators said the victim described being moved between hotel rooms at the Country Inn & Suites in East Point; a Quality Inn on Jonesboro Road in Morrow; a Holiday Inn on Highway 138 in Stockbridge; and a Comfort Inn on Powers Ferry Circle in Marietta. She also gave detectives descriptions of Jeffries, Walker, their vehicles, their home address in Conley, and others she said were involved.

According to the warrant, the woman who was rescued told investigators that another woman known only by nicknames had also been trafficked and beaten at the same East Point hotel.

Neither of the suspects have been granted bond as of Tuesday night.

If anyone has additional information on either of these suspects, you’re urged to call East Point Police.

Contact the Human Trafficking Hotline

To report suspected human trafficking in Georgia, call the Statewide 24-Hour Human Trafficking Hotline at (866) 363-4842. If you have reason to believe that a victim is in imminent danger, call 911 or your local law enforcement agency to file a report. For more information on how to get help for both national and foreign-born victims of human trafficking, visit endhtga.org.

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By Sadie Buggle

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    PARKER, Colorado (KRDO) — South Metro Fire Rescue crews are sharing dramatic footage of an electric vehicle (EV) fire inside a home’s garage in Douglas County on Monday, which shut down a roadway and sent one person to the hospital. Watch the video from the fire department above.

Just before 3 p.m. on Dec. 1, SMFR and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office responded to what was initially reported as a single-family residential structure fire on the 14000 block of Vienna Circle.

Parker Road was closed at Chambers Road as crews responded to the scene, where they found a fire in the home’s garage and began checking whether it had spread into the house.

In an update at 3:30 p.m., SMFR shared that the fire was under control, and crews had gotten the upper hand before it spread to the main structure of the residence.

The fire department first shared that the home’s two occupants had been safely evacuated, but later shared that one person was taken to the hospital for further evaluation. At this time, it is unclear if that person was one of the home’s residents.

Crews say they then worked to remove the electric vehicle from the garage to prevent further spread. Video shared by SMFR shows the EV after it was successfully removed from the garage, still very actively on fire. Crews said it was subsequently covered with a fire blanket and towed from the scene.

SMFR says the cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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