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Police briefs: woman sentenced, suspects arrested

A Winder woman gets a 20-year prison sentence, with five of those years to be served behind bars: Amber Lisy was convicted on an assault charge in Madison County. 

Police in Gainesville are searching for suspects in the shooting that put a 20 year-old man in the hospital: police say the victim was shot in the back and taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center. The shooting happened while the man was in the back seat of a car in the Newtown section of Gainesville. He was, at last report, hospitalized in stable condition. 

Police in Flowery Branch arrest a Gainesville man on indecent exposure charges: David Garcia is also accused of inappropriately touching a woman in a parking lot. 

A second suspect linked to the summer shooting of a teenager who was shot and killed in Gwinnett County has been indicted by a grand jury in Lawrenceville: there are murder, assault, and robbery charges for 21 year-old Denzel Wilburn. Wilburn and 20 year-old Savion Dillard are charged in the July 1 shooting death of 15 year-old Branden Gerena, who was killed outside a convenience store in Buford. 

Four teenagers arrested by Atlanta police on jaywalking charges are now linked to a string of automobile break-ins: they were arrested while darting in and out of traffic in Buckhead.

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