Crime and Public Safety

Oran Routh was arrested this week after authorities seized multiple electronic devices and found hundreds of files of child sexual abuse in his home, according to court documents.

Gwinnett County Police detectives recently helped recover over $100,000 for a woman who fell victim to a business email compromise scam during the purchase of her home, according to a press release.

It's been seven months since Alicia Pope vanished from Conyers, Georgia and investigators believe she may be around Henry, Cherokee or Rockdale counties.

Atlanta police are investigating a shooting that left two men wounded early Tuesday morning in southwest Atlanta.

Have seen this teen? Deputies say 17-year-old Johnquavis Leonardo Ruthledge is wanted for murder and could be hiding out in metro Atlanta.

On Monday, Quindarrius Zachary, also known as D or Lil' D, resumed his testimony Monday in the trial of rapper Young Thug and his associates in Fulton County.

Four months after a 25-year-old woman was shot and killed at a bus stop in West Atlanta, her close friends are demanding answers in her killing. 

Students at Apalachee High School will return to class on Tuesday, their first day back since the mass shooting that took place nearly three weeks ago.

The man who was at the center of a nearly five-hour long SWAT standoff surrendered peacefully around 11 p.m. Monday.

A man was shot multiple times at a southwest Atlanta apartment complex on Monday evening. 

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Violent crime in the U.S. dropped in 2023, according to FBI statistics that show a continued trend downward after a coronavirus pandemic-era crime spike.

A man was arrested, accused of robbing a driver whose car broke down on the side of the road.

A Tennessee woman attempted to hire an online hitman for close to $10,000 to kill the wife of a man she met on the dating website Match.com, according to prosecutors.

A jury found Ahmad Alissa guilty of 55 counts, including 10 counts of first-degree murder, in the 2021 King Soopers supermarket shooting in Boulder, Colorado.

Funding has been approved to continue the Policing Alternatives and Diversion (PAD) program, which provides help to Atlanta's unhoused population instead of handcuffs.

Apalachee students head back to school, various fundraisers are ongoing throughout the community. 

A veteran Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who used his position to drug and sexually assault more than two dozen women while posted around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Wednesday.