Thanksgiving break-in at Gville library results in thousands of $$$ in damage

One man is in custody in connection with the incident which happened about midnight Thursday.

Gainesville Police say they arrested Miles Crutcher, 22, inside the building.

“Crutcher broke several windows to gain entry,” Lt. Kevin Holbrook said Monday. “Crutcher allegedly caused $18,000 in damage to the facility.”

Library Director Lisa McKinney declined to comment or give additional information. “
Since this is an open investigation we unfortunately cannot comment beyond what the police department has put out,” she said.

He was arrested without incident and taken to the Hall County Jail where he was being held Monday afternoon. Bond is set at $2,950. He’s charged with burglary.

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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.