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Cobb County May 21, 2020

Cobb’s Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Team gets federal grant and new coordinator

Cobb County District Attorney Joyette Holmes and liveSAFE Resources announced a federal grant to expand the work of Cobb’s Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). The grant was from U.S. Department…

Cobb County April 13, 2020

Cobb’s National Crime Victims Rights Week event to take place online this year

Cobb’s observance of National Crime Victims Rights Week will go online this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. National Victims Rights Week will be observed April 19 – 25 this…

Cobb County March 12, 2020

Cobb DA’s office says record restriction event was “a great success”

Cobb District Attorney Joyette Holmes’s office and the office of Cobb Solicitor Barry Morgan deemed the record restriction event held at the Riverside EpiCenter on Feb. 29 a “great success.”…

Victim Mitchell Jones holding his dog, in article about investigation using geofencing

Austell January 6, 2020

Geofencing technology leads to arrest and life sentence in Austell murder

Cobb County police detectives made use of a technology called geofencing to secure an arrest and conviction in a murder that occurred in Austell. Geofencing is a technology that uses…

Austell December 23, 2019

Two consecutive life sentences for man convicted of rape of child in Austell

Cobb County District Attorney Joyette M. Holmes announced in a public information release that an Atlanta man convicted of raping a child in Austell has been given a sentence of…

Addiction and Recovery December 18, 2019

Cobb Opioid Fatality Review Project moves forward

The Cobb Opioid Fatality Review Project completed its first opioid fatality review (OFR) on November 20. A public information release from Kimberly Isaza, Public Information Officer for Cobb District Attorney…

Austell December 16, 2019

Man who judge said ‘terrorized and tortured’ a child in Austell gets 20-year sentence

Cobb District Attorney Joyette M. Holmes announced in a public information release that a Locust Grove man has been sentenced to 20 years, with 10 to be served in custody,…

Cobb County December 6, 2019