(GA. NEWS NETWORK UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE)
*College Park-based Chick-fil-A increased its nationwide sales 5.2% to nearly $24 billion last, according to the AJC, quoting a newly franchise disclosure document.
*A federal jury has convicted Patrick Shackelford, a former federal prison guard, for accepting bribes and conspiring with inmates to smuggle narcotics and other contraband into the federal pen in Atlanta. The government says they used an elaborate scheme through which visitors sneaked contraband into the prison through a secret hole in the visitation area. Shackelford will be sentenced in June. Three co-defendants have already been found guilty and sentenced.
*Two men have been indicted on Federal charges for allegedly running a nationwide phone scam out of Warner Robins. Mihir Patel and Himanshubhai Barot are accused of convincing victims to send large sums of cash to businesses in central Georgia while pretending to be law enforcement or other government agencies. The scheme netted at least $116,000.
*Soon, it may be possible to surrender infants to climate-controlled, Safe Haven boxes located outside various facilities. State law currently allows parents to surrender infants directly into the arms of a medical professional, police officer, or firefighter without any penalty. Michael Bossak, with Memorial Health Children’s Hospital in Savannah, says the boxes are monitored by video and automatically trigger a 911 request when opened. The bill is now on the governor’s desk.
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