Police reports include animal cruelty, drug arrests

There are animal cruelty charges for an Athens man arrested at his home on East Carver Drive: Athens-Clarke County Police say 26 year-old Quinn Williams kept three pit bulls chained in his backyard; police say one of the dogs had to be put down.

Police are investigating a string of automobile break-ins in Franklin County: Lavonia Police say someone smashed windows in four cars in the parking lot of a restaurant, stealing items that were inside the vehicles.

An accused marijuana dealer is booked into the Hall County jail: Kevin Leachman is 31 years old, from Flowery Branch. 

An Acworth man is in the Rabun County jail, facing sexual assault charges: 28 year-old Kirk Martin worked as a jail guard in Murray County until he was fired last year. He's charged in an assault that was reported last week.

They called it Operation Purge: police in Gwinnett County say they arrested 16 fugitives and confiscated marijuana and firearms, some of them stolen. Law enforcement officers involved in the arrests included the Gwinnett County Police Department and the Gwinnett Sheriff’s Office; also police in Lawrenceville, Duluth, and Braselton.

Gwinnett County school officials have not released the name of the teacher, but they say an instructor at Archer High School in Lawrenceville has resigned after the revelation of what is described as an inappropriate relationship with a student.