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De Kalb County

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Crime Blotter

Police: DeKalb Man Solicited Girl, 13

Kyle Alexander Williams was arrested at his Stone Mountain home on Wednesday.

A 24-year-old Stone Mountain man pretended to be a teenage boy in online discussions with a 13-year-old Canton girl, then tried to solicit her for sex, the spokeswoman for the Canton Police Department said tonight. Kyle Alexander Williams, 24, was arrested at his DeKalb County home on Wednesday and charged with electronically furnishing obscene material to minors and violation of the Computer Pornography and Child Exploitation Act of 1999, Sgt. Stacy Bailey said. Wednesday's arrest culminated a nearly month-long investigation that began when the girl's father filed a police report. He was concerned about inappropriate discussions on a social networking site between his daughter and an unknown male he thought was 17 years old, Bailey said. …

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Canton Man Suing DeKalb County

After he was wrongfully arrested for the murder of a DeKalb strip club owner, Joey Celestin lost his job, his home and more.

A Canton man mistakenly fingered as the suspect in the September 2010 shooting death of a strip club owner intends to sue DeKalb County for damages, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting. Hours after Terry Stephenson was gunned down outside Pin Up's, an adult entertainment club located just east of Decatur on East Ponce De Leon Avenue, police converged on the River Ridge apartments in Canton and arrested Celestin in front of his two sons. He spent 21 days in jail before evidence revealed he was at work at the time of the shooting. Celestin spoke to WSB-TV nearly two weekends ago, the first time he'd given an interview since his exoneration. Click here to watch the report.

Monday, May 23, 2011

'I Didn't Know What Was Going On'

For the first time since he was exonerated of the September shooting death of a DeKalb County strip club owner, a Canton man speaks.

Last September, Joey Celestin was mistakenly fingered as the suspect in the shooting death of a DeKalb County strip club owner. Hours after Terry Stephenson was gunned down outside Pin Up's, an adult entertainment club located just east of Decatur on East Ponce De Leon Avenue, police converged on the River Ridge apartments in Canton and arrested Celestin in front of his two sons. He spent 21 days in jail before evidence revealed he was at work at the time of the shooting. Celestin spoke to WSB-TV over the weekend, the first time he'd given an interview since his exoneration. Click here to watch the report.

YuQin Guo

3:36 pm on Tuesday, May 24, 2011

I am very happy innocent man is free!   more ›

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