Crime & Safety
Atlanta Fugitive Arrested in South Georgia
The woman had been on the lam for more than two years before being caught working at a chicken plant.
A woman who had been on the Atlanta Police Department's Most Wanted List for two years was tracked down and arrested on Tuesday.
According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kim Ward shot her boyfriend in the chest at a home on Holly Street on March 19, 2012. She earned the distinction of being the only female fugitive on the APD's most wanted list.
Police told the AJC that investigators used social media to track Ward, and eventually located her working at a Claxton chicken plant. She had been living in Savannah with unidentified people at the time of her arrest.
WJCL reports that the Atlanta Police Department's Fugitive Unit worked in tandem with the FBI to arrest Ward. She is now in the Fulton County Jail on charges of aggravated assault, aggravated battery, and kidnapping.
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