CSRA crime news

Crime blotter

One-sentence summaries of crime and public-safety reporting from local CSRA outlets. Each entry links to the originating publication.

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WRDWJul 2
A man was taken into custody after a SWAT response to a barricaded suspect and possible hostage situation at a Richmond County hotel.
Augusta PressJul 2Booking record
A Richmond County deputy jailer was arrested after allegedly giving an inmate outside food and lying during the investigation.

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Aiken StandardJul 1

A woman was killed in a fire in Aiken County early Wednesday morning.

Augusta PressJul 1

Men took their honor seriously in the eighteenth century. A slight didn’t just risk a fist fight. It risked death at dawn on a lonely field. Button Gwinnett would have known that when, just days after the 1777 gubernatorial election in Georgia, a contest Gwinnett lost, he sent a…

Augusta PressJul 1

An Augusta man was arrested and charged in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left a worker in critical condition with a severe brain injury.

Augusta PressJul 1

The Georgia Supreme Court upheld two Richmond County murder convictions, leaving the defendants in prison.

WRDW· Jun 30

Augusta PressJul 1Booking record

A 3-year-old Augusta boy died after being rushed to the hospital with signs of severe abuse and malnutrition, and his mother and her boyfriend were arrested.

WJBFJun 30Booking record

A Warrenton man was arrested on child molestation charges.

WRDW· Jun 30

WJBFJun 30

A young Marine, his wife, and a third person were killed when their car hit a tree on I-20 in Greene County.

WFXGJun 30

A 16-year-old was wanted in connection with an aggravated assault in Richmond County.

WFXG· Jun 29

WJBFJun 30

A man was wanted for questioning in a Waynesboro aggravated assault that left one victim shot and hospitalized.

Augusta PressJun 29

Authorities sought an Augusta teen on aggravated assault warrants after a predawn shooting sent bullets into an occupied home.

WRDWJun 29

A replacement was named for a Lincoln County commissioner who resigned after pleading guilty to child cruelty and receiving 10 years of probation.

WRDWJun 29Booking record

A Thomson man was arrested in connection with a 2024 rape case.

WRDWJun 29

Richmond County deputies were looking for Abe Joseph Faust, 35, who was wanted for aggravated assault in Augusta.

WJBF· Jun 29

WRDWJun 29Booking record

A driver was arrested in Richmond County after a traffic stop led to a pursuit that ended with deputies using a PIT maneuver.

Augusta PressJun 29

During the week of June 17-23, a total of 220 crimes were tracked by The Augusta Press from the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office. Violent crimes included one case of homicide, four cases of aggravated assault and 80 cases of simple assault, in addition to seven cases of criminal…

WRDWJun 26Booking record

A 28-year-old man was wanted on an aggravated assault charge after an incident at the Apartments at 1901 Harvest Point Way in Richmond County.

WJBF· Jun 26

WRDWJun 26

A Screven County man was charged with child molestation after allegedly exposing himself and performing a sexual act in front of two juveniles.

WFXGJun 26

A Richmond County man was convicted in a 2024 murder over a cocaine dispute.

WRDWJun 26

A suspect was convicted in connection with the July 2024 shooting death of a 38-year-old man near Walton Way in Augusta.

WRDWJun 26

A woman was arrested at a business on Wrightsboro Road in Augusta.