ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr announced that Averil Johnson, 45, of Lawrenceville, has been indicted in DeKalb County on 10 counts of felony Medicaid Fraud and two counts of felony Identity Fraud. As the owner of National Healthcare Center, LLC, Johnson is alleged to have submitted fraudulent claims for genetic testing services his company did not provide and to have retained payments for those claims.
Attorney General Chris Carr announced that five members of RNBA, a hybrid criminal street gang based in Boston, Georgia, have been convicted and sentenced to prison for their involvement in an April 3, 2022 shooting at the Green Food Market in Thomasville. The incident, linked to an ongoing conflict between RNBA and "Realer Than Most" (RTM), resulted in non-fatal injuries to a pregnant woman and another civilian. One defendant was also injured.
ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr announced today that Ugochinyere Anazodo, 46, of Gwinnett County, Georgia, and Dominique Beaulieu, 45, of Windermere, Florida, have been convicted and sentenced to prison for their roles in multiple cyber fraud schemes. These schemes targeted small businesses, government entities, and private citizens, resulting in significant financial losses through scams such as Business Email Compromise (BEC), romance and confidence fraud, inheritance scams, and identity theft.
Attorney General Chris Carr has filed an amicus brief supporting a Tennessee-led lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration's revised Title IX rule, which mandates that males and females share bathrooms and redefines "sex" to include "gender identity" and "sexual orientation."
Attorney General Chris Carr announced today that Hall County Solicitor General Stephanie Woodard has entered a guilty plea for unlawfully acquiring funds from Hall County and the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia (PAC) to cover personal expenses. These include unauthorized travel expenditures and the misuse of Local Victim Assistance Programs (LVAP) funds.
Attorney General Chris Carr has announced the appointment of former Cobb County Assistant District Attorney Timothy Ruffini to lead Georgia’s first statewide Organized Retail Crime Unit. Ruffini will manage a team of prosecutors and investigators dedicated to addressing criminal networks involved in recurring thefts and acts of violence targeting businesses across the state. This new unit is part of the Attorney General’s Prosecution Division, which also includes units focused on gang prosecution, human trafficking, and white-collar and cybercrime.
Attorney General Chris Carr announced today that Farid Moghaddam, 48, of Atlanta, has been indicted in Forsyth County on four counts of felony Medicaid Fraud and 11 counts of felony False Writings. Moghaddam, the owner and sole provider for North Cumming Dentistry, LLC, is alleged to have submitted fraudulent claims for services he did not provide and retained payments for those claims.
Attorney General Chris Carr is warning Georgians to be vigilant against potential price gouging and home repair fraud following Tropical Storm Debby. Consumers are also advised to be cautious when purchasing used vehicles that may have sustained storm damage.
Attorney General Chris Carr has won an appeal allowing his office to proceed with its civil case against the New Georgia Project for suspected violations of state campaign finance laws. The New Georgia Project had previously sued to block the State’s proceedings. Carr filed an appeal in March 2023, and the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion in favor of the Attorney General’s Office on July 8, 2024.
ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr announced that Denorris Hutchinson, 36, of East Point, has been convicted and sentenced to prison for trafficking two females, ages 15 and 17, in Fulton County. The 17-year-old, who had been reported missing from Kansas City, Missouri, was recovered from a hotel in Fulton County as part of a multi-agency operation conducted in 2020.
Attorney General Chris Carr announced the expansion of his Gang Prosecution Unit to Southeast Georgia. Assistant Attorney General Brooklyn Franklin and Criminal Investigator Pete Delatorre will oversee the unit's regional efforts, effective July 1, 2024. The expansion is funded by the state’s FY 2025 budget, signed by Governor Brian Kemp in May.
Attorney General Chris Carr has expressed approval of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine. Carr, who previously submitted an amicus brief in the case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, had urged the Court to overrule the Chevron doctrine.
Attorney General Chris Carr, joined by Senate President Pro Tempore John F. Kennedy and Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) Director Chris Hosey, announced the expansion of the Attorney General’s Gang Prosecution Unit to Macon-Bibb County. The announcement included the hiring of veteran prosecutor Ashton Jordan and seasoned investigator Nathan Shoate. Both will oversee the unit's regional efforts starting July 1, 2024, funded by the state’s FY 2025 budget signed by Governor Brian Kemp in May 2024.
Attorney General Chris Carr announced that Virginia Anne Bates, 37, of Forest Park, has been indicted in DeKalb County on charges of Trafficking of Persons for Sexual Servitude, Sexual Exploitation of Children, and Pimping. Bates is alleged to have knowingly harbored and provided a 16-year-old female and an adult female to sex buyers in DeKalb County. The defendant is further alleged to have collected a portion of the financial proceeds from the commercial sex acts of both victims.
ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr announced the indictment of Hall County Solicitor General Stephanie Woodard on 11 counts of Theft by Taking and 13 counts of False Statements and Writings. The defendant is alleged to have unlawfully acquired funds from Hall County and the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia (PAC) for personal and unrelated expenses between July 2018 and September 2022. The indictment also includes travel expenditures for which Woodard allegedly obtained reimbursement for expenses she had previously submitted to PAC or had never incurred. To...
ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) over a new rule mandating agricultural employers to allow temporary foreign-migrant workers to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.
ATLANTA, GA – Attorney General Chris Carr announced today that Julian Cubillos, Jayden Brown, Dakious Echols, and Desmontrez Mathis have been indicted by an Athens-Clarke County Grand Jury on charges of Malice Murder, Felony Murder, Aggravated Assault, and Violation of the Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act. The charges are related to the March 8, 2024 shooting at Hallmark Mobile Home Park, which resulted in the death of three-year-old Kyron Santino Zarco Smith and the injury of a nine-year-old male. The defendants are alleged members of a local gang known as “Everybody...
Attorney General Chris Carr is urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to take immediate action to permit the use of cell phone jamming devices within state prisons and local jails. The FCC currently prohibits the use of cell phone "jammers," a prohibition that extends to state and local governments. Contraband cell phones in prisons and jails are being used to plan violent attacks and other criminal activities, posing significant safety risks to correctional officers, visitors, inmates, and the public.
Attorney General Chris Carr announced the conviction and sentencing of Christopher Price, 36, from Stone Mountain, for trafficking a 16-year-old female in DeKalb County. The victim had been missing from Cedartown for approximately six weeks before being recovered by the Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit and the U.S. Marshals Service in March 2020. Investigations revealed that the victim had been trafficked out of a hotel in Tucker, Georgia, throughout February 2020.
Attorney General Chris Carr announced the conviction and sentencing of Jameesha Harris, 21, from Cleveland, Ohio, to 25 years for her involvement in trafficking a 16-year-old female in the Metro Atlanta area. The victim, reported missing from South Carolina, was recovered on August 2, 2023, following a traffic stop by the Greene County Sheriff’s Office. Law enforcement also found over 28 grams of cocaine and more than one ounce of marijuana in the vehicle.
