Police roundup includes armed robbery, high speed chases

Athens-Clarke County Police investigate a reported armed robbery: a 21 year-old man tells police he was held up at gunpoint on Pope Street near the corner of Waddell Street. There were no injuries reported. 

We have this morning the name of the Tennessee man who led Franklin County Sheriff's deputies on a high-speed chase earlier this week: 34 year-old Julius O'Brian is from Johnson City. The police pursuit that reached speeds of 130 miles per hour began on I-85 near Carnesville and ended with O'Brian's arrest in Anderson County South Carolina. A high-speed police pursuit in Habersham County ends with the arrest of a 15 year-old: Police in Cornelia say the chase reached speeds of 80 miles per hour before the car overturned. The teenager was not seriously injured.

Winston Turner gets a three-year prison sentence: the Jackson County man pretended to be a securities broker, stealing almost $900,000. The 50 year-old Jefferson man was sentenced in federal court in Gainesville.

Inspectors have now condemned the Banks Crossing motel that was burned in a fire last weekend: Banks County firefighters say the blaze that gutted the Scottish Inn on Highway 441 in Commerce was apparently sparked by a cigarette outside the motel.

A 29 year-old man from Baldwin faces child sex charges in Hall County: Dustin Dodd was booked into the Hall County jail, where he is being held without bond.