Serial Criminal Put Away For 15 Years
Long-time thief made a habit of burglarizing homes in Midtown, Morningside and surrounding neighborhoods.
A serial burglar who has long committed crimes throughout area neighborhoods including Midtown, Ansley Park, Virginia-Highland and Morningside, was sentenced this week to 20 years behind bars according to Fulton County Senior Assistant District Attorney Tiffany Harlow. Harlow told members of the Neighborhood Planning Unit-E this week that because Charles Lee Echols, 54, assisted authorities in the investigation of other unsolved burglary crimes that he had committed in the area, he was able to plea bargain and the judge probated five of the 20 years sentence. Harlow said the career criminal was sentenced to an additional 10 years probation for the theft by taking felony acts. The probation period will begin when Echols is released from …
Chris Murphy
8:49 am on Saturday, December 8, 2012
Judge Downs and her colleagues on the bench are almost as complicit as the perp. They continually allow people like this guy to terrorize whole neighborhoods, while melon-heads out there call them "non-violent criminals." Come home to a kicked-in door and ransacked house sometime and tell me how "non-violent" that feels. Some people cannot be "rehabilitated" with the current state of human … more ›