Athens Armed Robbery Suspect Taken into Custody in Watkinsville

Athens Clarke County Police teamed up with Oconee County Sheriff's deputies and Watkinsville Police to capture Ray Lee McDaniel at a Woodside Place residence Tuesday afternoon.

The man Athens Clarke-County Police believe is responsible for robbing at knifepoint a clerk at the Golden Pantry on West Broad Street Saturday night for $232 was apprehended Tuesday afternoon in Oconee County. According to a post on the Oconee County Sheriff's Office's Facebook Page, 26-year-old Ray Lee McDaniel was taken into custody at a home on Woodside Place around 2:30 p.m. Deputies and officers from Watkinsville Police Department and Athens Clarke-County Police Department reportedly worked together to make the arrest. McDaniel was booked into the Clarke County Jail at shortly after 5 p.m. You might also be interested in reading: Watkinsville Police Make Warrant Arrest Five Arrested After Fight Oconee Docket Book April 9- 15 Oconee …

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ACC Police Post Photo of Armed Robbery Suspect in Athens, Ga.

Ray Lee McDaniel is known to law enforcement officials in both Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties.

  Ray Lee McDaniel is thought to be responsible for robbing a Golden Pantry clerk at knifepoint over the weekend. 

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Update: Fugitive Wanted in California for Armed Robbery Nabbed in Oconee Shoplifting Case

Chief deputy says San Francisco authorities have decided not to extradite Janey Corran Travis, 22, of Athens. An arrest does not mean a conviction.

Update 2:22 p.m.: Chief Deputy Lee Weems of the Oconee County Sheriff's Office reports San Francisco authorities are not going to extradite Travis and she will be released as soon as her bond is processed. A 22-year-old Athens woman wanted in San Francisco, California on a charge of armed robbery was arrested Monday in Oconee County. According to the Sheriff's Office, Janey Corran Travis of Christy Court was taken into custody at Kohl's after store employees accused her of putting new shoes on two children and attempting to leave the store without paying for them.   Travis and Bryan Yahola Campbell, 27, of the same address, were both charged with shoplifting. In addition, Travis, who initially identified herself to deputies by a different …

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Man Says He was Robbed at Knifepoint by Woman He Met on Internet

The victim tells Oconee County Sheriff's deputies he willingly got into a car with a woman he met on "Backpage" and was robbed of $65 and left on the side of the road in Bishop.

Be careful with what you arrange on the Internet. A man told Oconee County Sheriff's deputies he was robbed early Saturday morning in Bishop by a woman he met on the classified ads website Backpage, according to an incident report. The victim had apparently used a pay-phone to arrange a meeting with the woman known as China after having connected with her just hours before on the website.  He told authorities the woman picked him up at a location on Duncan Circle in Commerce and they traveled through Jefferson and Winder,  eventually ending up at the intersection of High Shoals Road and US Highway 441 in Bishop around 1 a.m. At the stop sign, the woman allegedly "produced a fixed bladed kinfe that looked like a kitchen knife and ordered […

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Oconee Authorities Hunt Armed Robbery Suspect

An employee of Blockbuster Video on Experiment Station Road was robbed at gunpoint Saturday morning, authorities report.

Update 5:15 p.m. The Oconee County Sheriff's Office reported that the suspect may have fled the scene in a dark green Honda Civic with a cracked windshield driven by a white female with light brown hair. Original article: Oconee County authorities are searching for a man they believe robbed an employee of Blockbuster Video, located at 2061 Experiment Station Road in the Butler's Crossing shopping plaza, around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. On the way to make a bank deposit, the store employee was approached by a man in the parking lot who pulled a gun and demanded the money bag, said Chief Deputy Lee Weems of the Oconee County Sheriff's Office.  The employee handed over the bag and the man took off behind the blockbuster building, he said, adding no…

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One Man Arrested Following Home Invasion, A Second Remains on the Lam

Mark Anthony Sims, 30, of Athens, faces a number of charges, including armed robbery and aggravated assault.

Oconee County Sheriff's deputies arrested one man on armed robbery charges and are searching for another who may have been involved in a home invasion Sunday at a residence on Alpine Court. Around 10:40 p.m., a man carrying a pistol entered the home and tried to rob the residents, according to a news release. A man who lived there began to wrestle with the suspect to get control of the gun, and several shots were fired. A female resident struck and injured both men with a baseball bat during the struggle. They were later treated for their injuries. Mark Anthony Sims, 30, of Athens, was charged with armed robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm during the commission of …

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9:00 am on Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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Oconee Deputies Capture Clarke Armed Robbery Suspects

Three suspects were detained Tuesday night at a local convenience store and turned over to Athens-Clarke County Police.

Oconee County sheriff's deputies detained three  suspects for Clarke County within an hour and a half of a Tuesday night armed robbery, said Chief Deputy Lee Weems. According to a public information assistant with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, officers responded to a robbery around 8:4o p.m. at a Baldwin Street address. The victim told police that a man he knew came to his home and demanded that the victim give him his medication, officers reported.   The victim told police that the man left, returned with a baseball bat and hit him in the head. One of two women accompanying the man grabbed the medication from the victim's hand while the man pinned him to the couch, pressing the bat against the victim's throat and choking him…

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