Crime & Safety

Acworth Tie to Gwinnett Standoff

An arrest here was the only thing in the hostage taker's criminal record.

Lauren Holman Brown, the 55-year-old Suwanee man who held five Gwinnett County firefighters hostage before being shot dead Wednesday, was arrested once on a charge of failure to appear in Acworth.

But it wasn't clear Thursday where in Acworth the charge originated.

Acworth is in four counties: Cobb, Bartow, Cherokee and Paulding. 

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There is no record of the charge with the city of Acworth, according to officials with Acworth Municipal Court in Cobb.

Wherever it originated, the arrest was the only thing in Brown's criminal record prior to Wednesday's standoff, Gwinnett authorities said Thursday during a press conference.

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