Athens murder suspect awaits extradition

Extradition is expected this week in the case of Philmon Chambers, who was arrested last week in Killeen Texas: he’ll be returned to Athens to face murder charges stemming from the December death of Rodriguez Rucker, who was shot and killed on Royal Court in Athens.

Sentencing is set for March 28 in the case of Renee Bonner, the Madison County woman convicted of trying to kill her 81 year-old mother by injecting her with an overdose of morphine. The 65 year-old Bonner was convicted in court in Danielsville, found guilty of charges that include attempted murder and neglect of a disabled person.

There are sexual assault charges for a teenager in Gainesville: 19 year-old Josue Hernandez was arrested and booked into the Hall County jail after an alleged sexual encounter with a 15 year-old boy on the University of North Georgia campus in Gainesville. 

A 26 year-old Gainesville man is booked into the Hall County jail, accused of dealing in marijuana: the Hall County Sheriff's Office says Joan Mendoza-Perez was arrested after a traffic stop in Gainesville.

Drug agents in Habersham County arrest a suspected methamphetamine dealer: the cops in Clarkesville say the 78 year-old man had been selling meth for twenty years.

Raquel Spencer gets a ten-year prison sentence, with most of it to be served on probation, her punishment for having sex with a student in Dalton: Spencer was an English teacher at a high school in Whitfield County.