Police said the man was pleasuring himself in the open in front of a girl whose father flagged down a police officer before the man escaped.
Five Decatur men and another man from Covington were arrested after the victim was shot following a dispute at a local Chevron station.
A 19-year-old man was found shot outside a DeKalb County food mart Wednesday evening, he later died from his injuries.
Adam Mathias Garcia of Decatur faces federal drug and firearms possession charges in a major drug trafficking conspiracy based in Savannah.
The DeKalb County Police Department implemented two non-sworn, civilian personnel positions for lower priority, nonviolent service calls.
DeKalb police are searching for two men who they say shot at the glass cases and stole jewelry from a store in The Gallery at South DeKalb.
Swimming pool dangers persist, especially for children, in Decatur and Avondale Estates
DeKalb County police say as many as 50 shots were fired at a Decatur gas station Tuesday night, leaving two people injured and two dead.
Victor Lee Tucker, the suspect in the Big Bear Supermarket shooting last Monday, was released from the hospital Friday and arrested.
The DeKalb County Police Department was supposed to hold its first-ever youth academy Saturday, but it's been rescheduled to July.
Laquitta Willis, 41, was working her shift at Big Bear Supermarket on Monday. A man shot and killed her after an argument over face masks.
William "Bill" Smith was serving as a Baldwin County Sheriff's deputy. He drowned Sunday while rescuing swimmers near Gulf Shores.
Decatur police said the man tried to board a moving train when he fell, and the train severed one of his legs.
DeKalb and Atlanta law enforcement officers arrested a second suspect Thursday in connection with the death of a child last month.
Applications are now being accepted for DeKalb County Police Department's first-ever, one-day youth academy event.
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office said an inmate already in custody was behind the explosive device threat at the courthouse Thursday.
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office is conducting an investigation into the incident and origins of the "possible explosive device" report.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the man shot and killed by police in a suspected kidnapping incident and car chase Tuesday.
One man is dead after a car chase, foot pursuit and officer-involved shooting near downtown Decatur in a suspected kidnapping incident.
DeKalb County sheriff's deputies arrested a 50-year-old DeKalb County man accused of killing a woman and hiding the evidence.
Family Dollar employees saw a woman set fire to product on store shelves, and DeKalb law enforcement needs the public's help finding her.
Anyone with certain outstanding misdemeanor warrants issued by a DeKalb County law enforcement agency can qualify. See the details here.
Dozens of DeKalb jail inmates chose to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and requests are increasing daily, Sheriff Melody Maddox said.
Eric Hall, 52, is facing six charges, including sex trafficking, pimping of a person under age 18, and drug and firearm possession charges.
A man in his 30s was killed in a drive-by shooting at a DeKalb County convenience store Monday afternoon.
A man with a knife was shot and killed by DeKalb police Monday. Bodycam footage shows police pleading with him to put it down before firing.
A man wielding a knife lunged at DeKalb County police multiple times, which led officers to fire their guns at him, police said.
Franklin Clyde Wilson, 63, went missing last week and Decatur police issued a statewide Mattie's Call to find him. He was found safe Monday.
Decatur police issued a statewide Mattie's Call to find 63-year-old Franklin Clyde Wilson, who may be in danger of self-harm.
One person was killed in the crash Thursday, and the driver who caused the accident is expected to be charged in his death.
A fire broke out in the basement of a Decatur apartment building Wednesday morning at the intersection of Sycamore Place and Ponce.
Decatur and Brookhaven police are looking for the public's help in identifying a suspect believed to have committed crimes in both cities.
The DeKalb County Police Department released a sketch of a person-of-interest in an August 2020 homicide of 18-year-old Demarco Williams.
A firefighter was directing traffic on Covington Highway last month when someone driving a black Mercedes-Benz struck him and drove away.
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office is looking to hire detention officers, security technicians and deputy sheriffs.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into an officer-involved shooting in DeKalb County from Monday, leaving one man injured.
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office arrested a 17-year-old on warrants for his arrest Friday for an October 2020 murder and armed robbery.
Five men died in two crashes on I-285 in DeKalb County Monday, which shut down I-285 for at least five hours before the morning rush.
Ricky Hawk, whose 2015 song "Watch Me Whip/Nae Nae" went viral, is charged in the shooting death of Frederick Rooks who died on Jan. 21.
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office confirmed they arrested a DeKalb County man on a murder charge of a 19-month-old child.