County to pay $15K to settle wrongful arrest suit
Lowndes County supervisors voted in executive session Friday to pay a former New Hope High School student $15,000 to settle a wrongful imprisonment lawsuit against a justice court judge, board president Harry Sanders confirmed to The Dispatch.
Student’s statutory rape charges dismissed
On March 26, Javonte Ellis, a senior at New Hope High School, was arrested at his school’s campus by investigators with the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department.