Five area residents are in custody following a drug trafficking investigation in Hancock County. According to information provided today by Sheriff Scott Gittings, the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton Drug Task ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ga. — Two Hancock State Prison inmates are dead after two different fights, according to Hancock County Coroner Dontrelle Andrews. Andrews said that William Holeman, 34 ...

Hancock County residents are being warned by police about an ongoing police impersonation phone scam. In a post on Facebook, the Hancock County Sheriff's Department said the Hancock County Jail ...

Conflict has been brewing in Hancock County between the Sheriff's Office and the county commissioners over the proposed acquisition of a new K9 after one of their ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ga. — Two inmates died on Thursday at the Hancock State Prison, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. The GDC confirmed Friday to Action News Jax’s Atlanta ...

HANCOCK CO., Miss. (WLOX) - The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office says a man wanted in connection to an aggravated assault incident in Hancock County was found dead in Arkansas. Hancock County ...

They say the Hancock County Sheriff's Office and Department of Correction ... around the prison — which can hold up to nearly 1,200 inmates — authorities found Lloyd White and Jeaundean ...

Two prisoners at Hancock State Prison were found dead ... Facility until 2020 and worked for the Irwin County Sheriff’s Office until March 2024, also was among those indicted.