Arrest Warrant Issued for Lumpkin Co. Coroner Candidate

DAHLONEGA, Ga. — An arrest warrant has been issued for Amanda Jones-Holbrooks, a candidate for Lumpkin County Coroner.

On June 1st, Holbrook’s ex-husband Ricky Edmondson Jr. filed a report with Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office alleging Holbrooks had filed a Quit Claim Deed for a piece of property owned by him with the Lumpkin County Clerk of Courts. Mr. Edmondson further stated his signature on the Quit Claim Deed had been forged by Ms. Holbrooks.

Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division along with Lumpkin County District Attorney’s office investigated the allegation and determined there to be sufficient probable cause to seek formal charges.

Today, Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office applied for and received an arrest warrant for Ms. Holbrooks, charging her with first degree forgery, a felony.

Edmonson told Fetch Your News, “I did not sign a quit claim deed. “I only learned about the quit claim deed when I attempted to transfer ownership of the land to my parents and my attorney Angela Clark discovered the land was now in my ex-wife’s name.”

Edmondson said the notary who witnessed the quit claim deed, Johnathan Fitzpatrick, stated that Edmondson personally appeared before him on Sept. 24, 2015. “That’s not true. I was in Murphy, N.C. on that day,” Edmondson said.

Holbroks, who goes by the name Jones in her campaign, is one of two candidates involved in the July 26 runoff. Her opponent is Jim Sheppard, a veteran law enforcement officer who is retiring after 28 years with the DeKalb County Police Department.

This is not Holbrooks first arest. She was arrested in Lumpkin County in 2007 and charged with deposit account fraud/bad checks.