Ex-district attorney charged in Ahmaud Arbery case booked at Georgia jail
by Elizabeth Faddis, Breaking News Reporter | November 25, 2021 04:47 PM
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A former Georgia district attorney was charged for allegedly mishandling the Ahmaud Arbery murder case and was booked into jail.
Jackie Johnson, 49, a former Brunswick Judicial Circuit district attorney, was booked into Glynn County jail on Wednesday after she turned herself in, according to authorities. Jail records show Johnson was released the same day and did not have to pay a cash bond, the Associated Press reported.
The former attorney is accused of discouraging police from making arrests in connection with Arbery's death.
Johnson, who had been the community's top prosecutor at the time of the Arbery murder in 2020, was indicted by a grand jury last week. She faces a felony charge of violating her oath of office and a misdemeanor count of obstructing police work.
Johnson is being prosecuted by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr's office. She has denied any wrongdoing and said she recused her office from the case because one of the men now convicted in the murder of Arbery, Greg McMichael, had been an employee, according to CBS News .