SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: A Spalding High School student was on Monday afternoon arrested for possessing a firearm on school grounds. According to the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office incident report, 17-year-old Elisha Maurice Goggins was contacted by Deputy Richard Mangham and Assistant Principal Corenza Barnes regarding a complaint received Friday, Nov. 18, alleging Goggins was […]
Spalding High student arrested for having loaded firearm at school
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Responses to questions in Boynton investigation become heated
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: The September release of the GBI case file on its Jessica Boynton investigation raised questions as multiple inconsistencies were revealed. Efforts to obtain answers to those questions have been stymied by the refusal to respond to questions about those inconsistencies. The GRIP first interviewed Griffin Police Department Chief Mike Yates in […]
Griffin PD Officer Matthew Boynton subject of falsified criminal allegation
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: From information obtained through Open Records requests, The GRIP has learned that Courtney Callaway was terminated from her employment with Spalding E911 after filing what was determined to be a false criminal allegation against her former boyfriend, Griffin Police Department Officer Matthew Boynton. A formal complaint alleging of terroristic threats, stalking […]
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ALERT: Western Spalding County fire jumps Shoal Creek; is now approaching homes
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: A large fire burning in the western portion of Spalding County has now jumped Shoal Creek and is approaching a residential area. According to Spalding County Assistant County Manager Eric Mosley, personnel of the Spalding County Fire Department and the Georgia Forestry Commission are actively working to extinguish the fire. “What’s […]
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Five Loaves & Two Fish Food Pantry needs frozen turkeys for Thanksgiving meals
ELAINE KRUGMAN ::: Five Loaves and Two Fish Food Pantry provides groceries for families in need, but they are requesting your help, especially before Thanksgiving, when the demand is the greatest. Wouldn’t it be comforting to know when you sit down to Thanksgiving dinner that other families in your community would be able to do the […]
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SHS student struck by vehicle in school parking lot
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: The GRIP has confirmed a Spalding High School student has been struck by a vehicle on school property. A law enforcement source stated the driver who struck the student had reportedly been blinded by sunlight. The male student was transported to an area hospital. The GRIP will continue to follow this […]
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Spalding County Sheriff Wendell Beam behind false death notification in Jessica Boynton incident
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: Through a series of Open Records requests, The GRIP has learned that Spalding County Sheriff Wendell Beam is responsible for the false death notification made to the elderly grandparents of Jessica Boynton. The notification was made following an April 15, 2016, shooting incident – ruled by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation […]
GBI completes Boynton investigation requested by GPD
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has completed its investigation into the April 15 incident in which Jessica Boynton, the wife of Griffin Police Department (GPD) Officer Matthew Boynton, allegedly attempted to commit suicide using her husband’s duty weapon. GPD Chief Mike Yates immediately requested the GBI investigation, and agents arrived […]
GBI report on Boynton investigation leaves some questions unanswered
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: After thoroughly reviewing the GBI investigative case file on the April 15 Boynton incident, The GRIP conducted interviews with officials of the Griffin Police Department and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in an effort to clarify apparent inconsistencies. Following the April 15 incident, Griffin Police Department Officer Matthew Boynton, with the […]
Law enforcement videos now more expensive to obtain
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: At a time when increasing numbers of law enforcement agencies – including the Griffin Police Department – are implementing the use of body worn cameras (BWCs), Georgia lawmakers have enacted new legislation making it more costly to obtain the interactions the video recordings these and others devices document. The legislation – […]
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SCSO, GPD execute warrants on same location; multiple narcotics arrests made
SUBMITTED ::: The Spalding County Sheriff’s Office Warrant Division and Griffin Police Department Special Investigation Unit (SIU) on Wednesday executed separate arrest and search warrants at the residence located at 654 Garrett St., resulting in multiple arrests. According to a press release issued by the GPD, the SCSO Warrant Division served an arrest warrant at […]
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David Gibson indicted on 14 counts including 11 felonies
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: A grand jury on Sept. 15 handed down a 14-count indictment against David Gibson, formerly the captain of the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office Uniform Patrol Division. Gibson was on Sept. 10, 2015, arrested by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on criminal ten warrants obtained one day prior by Special Agent […]
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Two men charged with stalking, aggravated assault in connection with 16-year-old GCA student
STAFF REPORT ::: The Spalding County Sheriff’s Office has made two arrests in the case of a 16-year-old female Griffin Christian Academy student who reported being followed by two men in a white pickup truck Friday morning, Sept. 9, and approached at gunpoint at the intersection of Ellis Road and North Expressway, and a […]
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Local Vietnam veteran awarded medals
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: For Griffin resident and Vietnam War veteran David Baugh, what began as an effort to verify and correct his military service record became an experience that left him shocked…and overjoyed. “I was not expecting anything like that. It was just beyond my wildest dreams,” Baugh said of learning he was to […]
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David Gibson, Sheriff Beam criminal and civil cases at standstill pending DA action
SHEILA A. MATHEWS ::: The criminal case against David Gibson, former captain of the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office Uniform Patrol Division, as well as the civil cases against Gibson, Sheriff Wendell Beam and Spalding County, are at a standstill until at least mid-September. U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten on Jan. 13 originally ordered the civil […]
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