The Rabun County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to find two men wanted on outstanding arrest warrants.
Preston Michael English and James Matthew Hicks are wanted on felony counts of theft by receiving stolen property and theft by taking.
The sheriff’s office says both men are known to frequent Rabun, Gwinnett, and Hall counties.
“This duo has been involved in criminal activity for some time,” Rabun County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Scott Cheek tells Now Habersham. He says on March 22, 2021, Rabun County deputies were involved in a short chase with the duo as they pulled a stolen excavator from Gwinnett County on a UHaul through Rabun.
The deputies caught up with the men and arrested them. They charged English with fleeing and attempting to elude officers, theft by receiving stolen property, possession of meth, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon during the commission of a felony, and driving on a suspended license.
Hicks, who is from Gwinnett County, was charged with several offenses in connection with that incident, including possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, possession of meth, and theft by receiving stolen property.
English was released on bond. In August of 2021, he was arrested again on warrants out of Franklin County, Georgia, and placed back into the Rabun County Detention Center the following November for failure to appear. Cheek says English has been arrested 15 times in Rabun County alone.
