STAFF REPORT ::: A Spalding County jury on Thursday convicted Carmen Emilio Torres and Eric Cabrera Lopez in the murders of Carlos Benford and Joshua Wyatt. Beford and Wyatt’s bodies were discovered burning in a truck on April 13, 2021. Spalding County firefighters and deputies responded to a location on Jackson Road near the Butts […]
Two men convicted in 2021 double murder, sentenced to life without parole
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Third arrest made in April murders of two men set ablaze in truck
STAFF REPORT ::: The Spalding County Sheriff’s Office has made a third arrest in the brutal April 2021 murders of Joshua Wyatt and Carlos Benford. Kristin Cordero-Rojas, age 29, was on Thursday arrested in an operation including the SCSO Special Operations and CAGE units, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Gang Task Force, United States Marshal […]
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Two Henry County men identified as murder victims found in burning truck; suspect in custody
STAFF REPORT ::: An arrest has been made in a case in which two bodies were discovered in a pickup truck engulfed in flames. The Spalding County Fire Department (SCFD) and Spalding County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) on Tuesday afternoon responded to the call on Jackson Road near the Butts County line.Upon arrival, first responders located […]
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