Dawson Co. manhunt suspended for now

DAWSON CO. SHERIFF’S OFFICE FACEBOOK POSTING:

“UPDATE: We were unable to locate Ridings this morning but will continue keeping the area hot. Please call 911 if you see him. Thank you!

EARLIER POST:

Large presence of law enforcement in the area of HWY 53 and New Bridge Straight to Elliott Family Parkway due to a male with out of county warrants who ran from deputies this morning. He was last seen wearing white pants and no shirt. We do not believe the public to be in any danger but request that any sighting be reported by calling 911.”

Cody Riflings is 31 and from Dawson County and is wanted for burglary.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.