THOMSON, Ga. — A Georgia mayor has been suspended from office after being arrested for giving alcohol to inmates.. Back in June, Thomson police asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to ...

THOMSON, Ga. (AP) — The mayor of a small Georgia town has been suspended after he was indicted over allegations that he illegally left a bottle of gin in a ditch for a state prison work crew ...

THOMSON, Ga. — A Georgia mayor has been suspended from office after being arrested for giving alcohol to inmates. Back in June, Thomson police asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to ...

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp suspended an east Georgia mayor Friday after he was arrested on charges of giving inmates on a work-detail alcohol. Benjamin Cary Cranford, 52, was elected as mayor of ...

THOMSON, Ga. — A Georgia mayor who was suspended after a grand jury indicted him for allegedly giving alcohol to an inmate work detail asked for a re-do, and Gov. Brian Kemp re-appointed a ...

THOMSON, Ga. — The mayor of a small Georgia town was found not guilty of leaving alcohol in a ditch for inmates to find while on work detail.. Thomson Mayor Benjamin “Benji” Cranford was ...

Cranford was later suspended by Gov. Brian Kemp, but his acquittal restores him to office and entitles him to back pay.. No one disputes that Cranford bought a bottle of Seagram’s Extra Dry Gin ...

THOMSON, Ga. (AP) — The mayor of a small Georgia town is back in charge after a jury acquitted him of charges that he intentionally left a bottle of gin in a ditch for a state prison work crew ...