GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS
The man charged with aggravated assault of a peace officer and entering autos has been indicted on the charges by a Jones County Grand Jury.
The bills of indictment returned by the Grand Jury Dec. 6, included two cases involving James David Miller. The aggravated assault of a peace officer charge stemmed from a November incident and the entering auto charges are from an incident that took place at a hunting camp in October.
Miller was arrested Nov. 3 for the charge of aggravated assault against a peace officer.
The complainant on that incident report is listed as JCSO Investigator Barron Hall and the target of the assault was Investigator Gerry Nelson.
Hall said the U.S. Marshals Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force accompanied Jones County deputies Nov. 2 to serve a warrant at motel on Gray Highway. The subject of the warrant was not Miller but an individual who was living with him.
Miller was in the parking lot as law enforcement arrived and upon seeing the officers, got in his truck and attempted to flee. Hall said Miller headed toward Nelson and came close to hitting him and then the officer’s truck.
Nelson was able to jump out of the way and the suspect kept going. Miller was arrested the following day in Bibb County by U.S. Marshals.
In a Nov. 10 Facebook post, Jones County Sheriff Butch Reece stated that Miller had also been charged in an Oct. 9 entering autos case. Reece said the charge followed a month-long investigation into the crime, which found Miller committed the entering auto and burglary that took place on U.S. Highway 129 at the corner of Ellis Church Road.
