Robert Lee Presgraves

A man who initiated a week-long, multi-agency man hunt in May 2022, was indicted by the Toombs County Grand Jury this week.

On May 5, 2022, Robert Lee Presgraves was scheduled to appear in court for sentencing on weapons and theft charges when he overpowered a Toombs County Detention Center employee and fled to a neighboring convenience store where he stole a Pineland Paper delivery truck. The truck was located about an hour later, but Presgraves was not found. Over a week later, a Montgomery County deputy spotted a man fitting the escapee’s description just outside Mount Vernon. The deputy was able to take Presgraves into custody without any resistance. Presgraves told the deputy that he was “tired of running.”

His latest charges for which he was indicted last week include one count of theft by taking and one count of escape.

In other formal decisions handed down by the Toombs County Grand Jury this week, three men were indicted on a total of 35 counts of sexual exploitation of children. Twenty-two of those counts are against the same man. The charges relate to pornographic images found in the men’s possession which depicts young girls and boys in various suggestive acts and descriptions.

Other individuals indicted by the grand jury include crimes of aggravated assaults, providing contraband to inmates at Montgomery State Prison, obstruction of and terroristic threats to police officers, drug charges, burglaries, and criminal damage to property.

An indictment is not evidence of guilt, but a decision reached by the grand jury that there is enough evidence presented to them by the District Attorney’s Office to proceed with the charges further in the judicial system. In this term of the grand jury, 24 bills of indictment were presented with 23 returned as true bills and 1 no bill.