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Highway 154 Standoff in Newnan, GA: 14-Year-Old Escapes, Jeremy Head Charged in Coweta County

Coweta County deputies were sent to a home in the 2700 block of Georgia Highway 154 on a domestic dispute call Tuesday afternoon. SWAT and drone teams were activated. About four hours later a 14-year-old got out of the house. A man was booked into the Coweta County Jail on seven counts. He has been charged, not convicted.

What happened on Highway 154

Coweta County deputies were sent to a home in the 2700 block of Georgia Highway 154 in Newnan at approximately 4:23 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. Four newsrooms place the response there that afternoon: Atlanta News First, FOX 5 Atlanta, the Newnan Times-Herald and The Georgia Sun. Three give the time as approximately 4:23 p.m.; Atlanta News First says "just before 4:30 p.m."

What deputies found became a standoff. The sheriff's office activated its SWAT and drone teams, per Atlanta News First, the Newnan Times-Herald and The Georgia Sun. A 14-year-old was inside with a man for the hours that followed.

At about 8:30 p.m. the girl got out — all four newsrooms report she escaped after the man fell asleep. Jeremy Head was then booked into the Coweta County Jail on seven counts, per Atlanta News First and The Georgia Sun.

Head is charged. He has not been convicted of anything, and every allegation here belongs to the agency that made it.

Exactly where, and what we won't publish

The most precise location any account gives is the 2700 block of Georgia Highway 154, Newnan, Coweta County. Locals say "Highway 154," so that is what this page uses.

No street number has been released — no subdivision, no cross street — and we will not estimate one. The person held inside was a child. A precise address would hand the internet a permanent map to a 14-year-old's front door over what she is alleged to have been through. That is a decision, not an oversight.

For the same reason, this page carries no locator map and no coordinates. There are none in the record we are working from, and we would not plot a private residence if there were.

What kind of call came in first

FOX 5 Atlanta and the Newnan Times-Herald both describe a domestic dispute. FOX 5 Atlanta reported that "deputies were called to a home…after receiving a report of a domestic dispute." The Newnan Times-Herald puts the dispatch at "approximately 4:23 p.m. for a report of a domestic dispute."

FOX 5 Atlanta adds a detail the others do not carry: the call was a 911 hang-up. Its sentence reads, "Deputies responded to a 911 hang-up call at a home on the 2700 block of Ga. Highway 154 at approximately 4:23 p.m. Tuesday."

Those sit together comfortably. A hang-up is how the call arrived; a domestic dispute is what the response was classified as. A call that ends before anyone speaks is sometimes the only signal a household can send.

Who was involved, and who we don't name

The man arrested is Jeremy Head. All four newsrooms name him. The Newnan Times-Herald also gives the fuller form Jeremy Len Head. Atlanta News First names him and also refers to him as "the suspect." His age and address are not established.

The person held is a 14-year-old girl. FOX 5 Atlanta, the Newnan Times-Herald and The Georgia Sun describe her as Head's daughter. Atlanta News First describes a 14-year-old family member and calls her "the relative." That is a difference in how specific each newsroom chose to be, not a disagreement about who was inside.

The Local Alert does not name her, and will not. She is a minor and the alleged victim of a violent crime, and a child does not get to opt out of a search result later. We are also not describing what she is alleged to have gone through; the counts the sheriff's office filed are the only description of the alleged conduct here.

The SWAT and drone response

Three newsrooms report the activation. The Newnan Times-Herald: "Coweta County SWAT and drone teams were activated." The Georgia Sun: "The sheriff's office activated its SWAT unit and its drone unit." Atlanta News First credits the Coweta County Sheriff's Office and its SWAT and drone teams.

The Newnan Times-Herald also places hostage negotiators at the scene, describing the escape as coming "through a coordinated effort by hostage negotiators." Atlanta News First puts it as “with the help of hostage negotiators.” All four newsrooms place negotiators at the scene.

A drone team is a new fixture of a rural Georgia standoff: aerial video gives a command post a picture of a structure it cannot otherwise see around. What this one saw is not established here.

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Timeline of Tuesday, Aug. 11

Two clock times exist in the public record: the dispatch and the escape. Everything between them is sequence, not schedule. The diagram below is a chronology, not a map.

Chronology only, not to scale. The two clock times shown are the dispatch and the escape. No address is plotted.

The escape at about 8:30 p.m.

This is the part every account agrees on, and the part that matters most: the 14-year-old got herself out.

Atlanta News First: "the relative was able to escape the home after the suspect fell asleep." FOX 5 Atlanta: "the girl was able to escape from the home after Head fell asleep." The Georgia Sun says the same. The Newnan Times-Herald supplies the clock time: "At approximately 8:30 p.m., through a coordinated effort by hostage negotiators, the girl was able to escape."

Note what that last sentence does not say. It credits negotiators and says the girl was able to escape. It does not describe officers carrying her out, and we quote it as written. Where she went afterward is not established here.

The one thing our sources dispute

Every account ends with Head in custody. They do not describe the last step the same way, and one newsroom sits on both sides of it.

Version one: SWAT went in. Atlanta News First reports "SWAT members then entered the home, took the suspect into custody and booked him into the Coweta County Jail." The Newnan Times-Herald and one FOX 5 Atlanta story both say SWAT members entered and took Head into custody "without further incident." The Georgia Sun: "After the girl got out safely, SWAT members went inside and took Head into custody."

Version two: he surrendered. A second FOX 5 Atlanta story reports "Shortly after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, the man surrendered to law enforcement officers."

Read that carefully. FOX 5 Atlanta published two stories here, and they describe the ending differently. That is one newsroom's two write-ups, not two independent newsrooms. We are not resolving it. Both versions are published, both attributed, neither dropped.

The seven counts at booking

Head was booked into the Coweta County Jail, per Atlanta News First and The Georgia Sun. All four newsrooms list the same set of counts. The Georgia Sun's version reads: "false imprisonment, battery under Georgia's Family Violence Act, cruelty to children, two counts of terroristic threats and acts, possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime and obstruction."

That is seven counts across six charge names, because terroristic threats and acts is charged twice. Three newsrooms tie the battery count to Georgia's family-violence framework; Atlanta News First writes it plainly as battery. That is a difference in wording, not a different charge, and we show you both.

What those charge names mean

Charge names are legal shorthand, and readers hear something harsher or softer than the word carries. In plain language, with no statute numbers attached: false imprisonment is holding a person somewhere against their will. Family violence battery is a battery count filed where the accused and the alleged victim share a family or household relationship — the qualifier describes the relationship, not a separate act. Cruelty to children is a category name for a count involving a child.

Terroristic threats and acts, despite the word, has nothing to do with terrorism as most readers use the term; it is the count for threatening a person with violence, and it is charged twice. Weapon possession during the commission of a crime is an add-on count and does not identify the weapon. Obstruction is interfering with officers. We attach no felony grade and no sentencing exposure to any of these.

Charged is not convicted

This is not boilerplate. It is the most important paragraph here.

Jeremy Head is presumed innocent unless and until he is proven guilty in a court of law. A charge is an accusation — a sworn allegation that an offense occurred and that a particular person committed it. It is not a verdict, not a finding and not proof of anything.

As of this writing there is no reported indictment, no plea, no trial and no judgment, and no defense lawyer has publicly answered these counts. That is why this page will not call Head guilty or describe him as having done what the counts allege.

The weapon count, and what wasn't said

One of the seven counts is possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime. What no account carries is the weapon.

FOX 5 Atlanta reported that authorities did not specify what type of weapon was allegedly involved, writing that "Authorities did not provide additional information…specify what type of weapon was allegedly involved."

Attention: a weapon count is not a gun count. The name covers a category, and a reader who fills in the blank from the phrase "SWAT standoff" is supplying a detail no agency has. We will not name a weapon type or a caliber.

Injuries: the one statement on record

FOX 5 Atlanta reported that "Authorities reported no injuries."

That is the whole of the public record on injuries, and it should be read exactly as narrow as it is: a report of what authorities said that night. It is not a medical finding, and not a statement about what the 14-year-old experienced.

This page also does not describe any alleged assault. The counts the sheriff's office filed are the description of the alleged conduct, and that is where ours stops.

Four hours, and what the clock misses

FOX 5 Atlanta described the incident as a four-hour hostage standoff, writing that "A domestic dispute turned into a four-hour hostage standoff." That framing belongs to that newsroom.

The two published clock times sit either side of it: dispatch at approximately 4:23 p.m., the girl out at approximately 8:30 p.m. Roughly four hours and change, so description and times are consistent.

What no one can tell you is when the situation inside the house began. A dispatch time is when officers were sent, not when a dispute started, and we will not convert either figure into a claim about how long she was held.

An earlier case FOX 5 Atlanta describes

FOX 5 Atlanta reports a separate, earlier matter involving Head: "In an earlier case, Coweta County authorities identified him as one of the county's most wanted fugitives after he allegedly spent more than a year avoiding arrest. Authorities eventually tracked Head to a Carroll County home, where investigators said he barricaded himself inside and refused to surrender."

Three limits. First, it is one newsroom's account, corroborated by nobody. Second, it describes a different county — that barricade was in Carroll County, and Georgia counties are separate jurisdictions with separate sheriffs and court files. Third, how the earlier case was resolved is not established here, and neither is any connection to the 2026 counts.

A prior accusation is not a prior conviction, and is not evidence of a present offense. We include it because a named outlet published it, and frame it this tightly for the same reason.

Who handles a standoff in Coweta County

Georgia readers routinely mix up the agencies that work a scene like this. It matters: each holds different records and answers to a different official.

Booking counts are the arresting agency's accusation. What survives to an indictment is a prosecutor's decision, made later, and the two lists do not always match.

How to get the incident report

The agency that holds the report is the Coweta County Sheriff's Office, credited in every account with the response, the SWAT activation and the booking. A request goes to the agency that created the record — not city police, not the state patrol, not a court clerk. In Georgia these requests are made under the state's Open Records Act.

We are not publishing a mailing address, e-mail, form link or fee schedule for the sheriff's office, because we have not verified one for this page. Guessing at an agency's records contact is how a family ends up mailing paperwork into a void.

Attention: even a correctly addressed request commonly comes back withheld while a criminal case is open. That is the standard posture on an active file, not a rejection of the person asking. A case with a minor victim also carries extra redaction, so a released report is likely to arrive with her identifying information removed.

Where our sources differ

We publish disagreements rather than picking a winner. One note first: FOX 5 Atlanta published two stories here, and they are one newsroom, not two. Where they differ, the table shows both under that newsroom's name. "Not stated" means the point does not appear in what we compiled from that outlet.

The one genuine contradiction there is the custody row, and it lives inside a single newsroom's two stories. Everything else is a difference in how much each account included.

What we don't know yet

Nothing above is filled in by inference. A blank stays a blank here.

If this is your family

Most people reading a page like this are not strangers to it — relatives, neighbors, someone who recognizes the block.

The answers sit on separate clocks, held by separate offices. The sheriff's office holds the incident file, the jail the booking record, a prosecutor whatever happens next. None moves on a family's schedule, and records tied to an open case are commonly withheld until it closes. Where a child is involved, other offices may hold files that are not public at all.

The Local Alert is not a law enforcement agency and not a law firm. We cannot tell you what to say to anyone who calls about this.

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Frequently asked questions

What happened on Highway 154 in Newnan, Georgia?
Coweta County deputies were sent to a home in the 2700 block of Georgia Highway 154 at approximately 4:23 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. FOX 5 Atlanta and the Newnan Times-Herald report the call came in as a domestic dispute. The sheriff's office activated its SWAT and drone teams, per Atlanta News First, the Newnan Times-Herald and The Georgia Sun. At about 8:30 p.m. a 14-year-old got out, and Jeremy Head was booked into the Coweta County Jail.

Where exactly did the Newnan standoff happen?
At a home in the 2700 block of Georgia Highway 154 in Newnan, Coweta County. That block reference is the most precise location in the reporting compiled here. No street number has been released, and The Local Alert is not going to estimate one or publish coordinates for a private home.

Who was arrested in the Newnan hostage standoff?
Jeremy Head. FOX 5 Atlanta, the Newnan Times-Herald and The Georgia Sun name him as Head, and the Newnan Times-Herald also gives the name as Jeremy Len Head. Atlanta News First and The Georgia Sun report he was booked into the Coweta County Jail.

Who was the hostage in the Newnan standoff?
A 14-year-old girl. FOX 5 Atlanta, the Newnan Times-Herald and The Georgia Sun describe her as Head's 14-year-old daughter. Atlanta News First describes a 14-year-old family member. The Local Alert does not publish the name of a minor who is the victim of an alleged violent crime.

What is Jeremy Head charged with?
Seven counts. FOX 5 Atlanta, the Newnan Times-Herald and The Georgia Sun list false imprisonment, family violence battery, cruelty to children, two counts of terroristic threats and acts, possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime, and obstruction. Atlanta News First lists the same set but writes the battery count simply as battery. These are accusations filed at booking, untested in court.

Has Jeremy Head been convicted of anything in this case?
No. Jeremy Head is charged, not convicted. He is presumed innocent unless and until the State proves otherwise in court. Nothing here is a finding of guilt, and every allegation is attributed to the agency that made it.

How did the 14-year-old get out of the home?
Atlanta News First, FOX 5 Atlanta, the Newnan Times-Herald and The Georgia Sun all report she escaped after Head fell asleep. The Newnan Times-Herald puts that at approximately 8:30 p.m., through a coordinated effort by hostage negotiators.

How did the standoff end for Jeremy Head?
The accounts differ and The Local Alert is not choosing between them. Atlanta News First, the Newnan Times-Herald, The Georgia Sun and one FOX 5 Atlanta story report that SWAT members entered and took Head into custody without further incident. A second FOX 5 Atlanta story reports that shortly after 8:30 p.m. the man surrendered to law enforcement officers.

Was anyone hurt in the Newnan standoff?
FOX 5 Atlanta reports that authorities reported no injuries. That is the only statement about injuries in the reporting compiled here, and it reflects what authorities said rather than a medical finding.

What kind of weapon was involved in the Newnan standoff?
Not established. One count at booking is possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime, and FOX 5 Atlanta reports that authorities did not specify what type of weapon was allegedly involved.

Does Jeremy Head have a lawyer, and has bond been set?
Not established. Whether Head has an attorney, whether bond has been set, when he is due in court and whether the case has gone to a grand jury are all open questions here.

Why does this page not name the 14-year-old?
Because she is a minor and the alleged victim of a violent crime, and naming her would attach a permanent, searchable record to a child for what she is alleged to have been through. The Local Alert does not publish the names of minor victims or the address of the home.