Special Election To Fill Vacant Roswell Council Seat

ROSWELL, GA -- Residents who live in Roswell's Post 4 will have to wait a few months before they will have someone from their district serve on the City Council.

That's because council members at their Nov. 14 meeting voted to approve a resolution calling for a special election to fill the unexpired term of Kent Igleheart, who resigned earlier this month following his arrest on child sex charges.

Fulton County will conduct the special election, which is set for March 21, 2017. The winner of the election will serve the remainder of the unexpired term, which ends December 2017.

Igleheart was arrested Oct. 20 by DeKalb County police and charged with sexual exploitation of children, enticing a child for indecent purposes and furnishing alcohol to a minor following a sting operation carried out at Northlake Mall.

According to police, Igleheart is accused engaging in inappropriate sexual activity with a 17-year-old female juvenile.

The former councilman, according to DeKalb police, allegedly initiated an online relationship with the victim when she was about 13 years old. He was arrested during undercover operation where he allegedly arranged to meet the female victim at the mall.

When he arrived, police say he had alcoholic beverages in tow. He was taken into custody by police, and investigators learned he also booked a hotel room at Days Inn on Northlake Parkway.

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