🌱 Which recent Oconee County cases involved suspects from Statham?

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• Which recent Oconee County cases involved suspects from Statham?

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📰 News we're reading

• Stun gun needed to subdue man barricaded in bathroom (newsbreak.com) — Recent Oconee County sheriff's reports include multiple incidents involving Statham residents, from a shoplifting suspect identified as a 28-year-old Statham man to another Statham man arrested after a Walmart theft. The blotter also details a bathroom standoff requiring a stun gun, a burglary at student apartments, and several theft and drug-related arrests in nearby communities.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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• Obituary: Mary Alice Parks of Forrest City (thewynneprogress.com)

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• State Senate District 47 Has New Democratic Candidate After Former Candidate's Conviction (uga.edu)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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