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Deputies, not young girl, meet man at park
Charges include sexual exploitation of a child
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
WOODSTOCK — A Forsyth
County man who went to a
park in neighboring Cherokee
County on Friday night to meet
what he thought was a 13-year
old girl was met instead with
handcuffs.
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Forsyth County Sheriff's Cpl. Todd Little talks about Dennis Marx as he details the late gunmans’ histo
ry with law enforcement. The agency released details of the June 6 courthouse shooting Tuesday.
Timely training
helped ward off
courthouse attack
By Jim Dean
jdean@forsythnews.com
By the time Dennis Marx drove
onto the Forsyth County Courthouse
plaza June 6 and started a gun battle
with sheriff’s'deputies, he had
already shot himself in the leg,
according to information authorities
released Tuesday.
Sheriff’s office representatives
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Sharon Forks expansion is priority
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New branches
shelved for now
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
Plans are being made to move for
ward on a large expansion of the
Sharon Forks Library — with or with
out a $2 million state construction
grant that could be awarded during the
next Georgia legislative session.
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24, of Cumming didn’t realize
was the person with whom he
had been chatting on a social
dating site for months was a
detective with the Cherokee
County Sheriff’s Office.
Aguilera, who was arrested
about 11 p.m. at Hobgood Park,
was the focus of a targeted
investigation, according to
Cherokee Sheriff’s Lt. Jay
included those details and others —
including that some deputies had
trained for just such an attack the day
before — in a presentation at the
morning meeting of the Lanier
Forsyth Rotary Club.
The officials laid out a timeline of
the events of June 6, as well as previ
ous interactions the sheriff’s office
had with Marx, who was scheduled
to appear in court that morning to
enter a guilty plea on drug and weap
on charges.
The case against Marx dated back
to August 2011. After making several
undercover drug deals, authorities
said thev served a search warrant on
The Forsyth County Public
Library’s board was presented with
budget scenarios and project priorities
during its meeting Monday night.
After some discussion, it was decid
ed the focus should remain on “mak
ing Sharon Forks the most efficient
and largest space” rather than using
funds to buy land in the county’s
southwest corner for a fifth library
branch.
Long-term plans of building two
new branches, one in the southwest
and the other in northwest Forsyth,
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The probe began July 16
after Aguilera approached the
detective’s undercover identity
online. The detective identified
himself as a 19-year-old woman
and used a generic photo taken
from a basic image search,
according to a sheriff’s report.
While the online dating site
doesn’t allow anyone younger
him. During that raid, they seized
several firearms from Marx, who .was
described as a devoted gun enthusi
ast.
Apparently upset at the loss of his
guns and what he perceived as a.per-
Sonal attack, Marx began plotting the
courthouse assault, according to
authorities.
During the presentation, Sheriff’s
Sgt. Richard Thompson shared some
of the items that Marx brought with
him to the courthouse. They included
grenades designed to blow up as soon
as the pin was pulled.
The grenades were attached to zip
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also were aired at last monthés board
meeting. But even with funding, a
southwest branch would not open until
at least 2023, according to Jon
McDaniel, the library system’s direc
tor.
According to Holly Barfield, the
system’s assistant director for infor
mation technology, those proposed
branches would nearly eliminate a
drive time longer than 12 minutes to
any library, but she noted the Sharon
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than 18 to use its services, juve
niles create fake profiles to pre
vent being blocked. According
to the report, the detective finds
a way to identify himself as a
13-year-old girl and tells inter
ested men the photo was not
“me.”
Aguilera reportedly continued
to chat with the detective, begin
ning a sexually explicit dia
logue. .
He was charged with 13
counts of obscene Internet con
tact with a minor, two counts
Woman’s
pumpkins
Vandals had trashed
seasonal yard display
By Kayla Robins
krobins@forsythnews.com
Two Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office
employees are being hailed for their
efforts to help an elderly woman whose
yard display of pumpkins was destroyed.
According to the sheriff’s office, the
woman woke up Friday morning to find
her pumpkins had been smashed.
The woman, who lives in south
Forsyth, alerted authorities, according to
Robin Regan, spokesman for the sheriff’s
office. But as these types of “pointless
acts of damage are difficult to solve,” the
agency was unable to do much.
However, the dispatcher and deputy
who responded to the call felt bad for the
woman, so they decided to get her a new
display.
The next day, when both were off duty,
they went shopping, Regan said. The
efforts of the two, who wish to remain
anonymous, resulted in a sport utility
vehicle full of pumpkins. They left the
new display on the woman’s porch with a
note.
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Two employees of the Forsyth
County Sheriff's Office recently
replaced an elderly woman's pump
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Aguilera
each of sexual
exploitation of
a child and
electronic
obscene materi
als to a minor
and one count
of attempted
child molesta
tion. ]
As of Monday, Aguilera
remained in custody without
bond at the Cherokee Adult
Detention Center, according to
Baker.
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