DEKALB CO. DEPUTY DERRICK YANCEY HAD A HISTORY OF BIZARRE VIOLENT EPISODES & ARRESTS!!!

Killings not Deputy Yancey's First Tangle With Law
By April Hunt
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
06/12/08

The DeKalb County sheriff's deputy who told police he was forced to shoot an intruder who attacked his wife had brought the man into his home as a laborer, newly released records show. The shootout - described by Derrick Yancey as the laborer shooting his wife, Linda, and Yancey shooting the laborer - erupted when the man tried to rob the couple, say DeKalb police records.

Yancey, 46, had picked up the man "to help him do some work around the house," the report says.
Details of what Yancey said happened inside the Stone Mountain home Monday afternoon emerged as other records show that Yancey had been arrested twice in 2006 on domestic violence charges for confrontations with his son. All charges were dropped. (Of course the charges were were dropped! A domestic violence misdeamor conviction means the offender cannot buy or possess firearms! Cops and prosecutors look out for each other with respect to 'omestic violence crimes!)

After Monday's shootings, neighbors said Yancey previously had hired day laborers to help with landscaping. Yancey told police he did not know the man he hired on Monday. He called 911 after the shootings and led an officer to the basement. The officer saw a yet-to-be-identified Hispanic man lifeless on the floor, "with a silver revolver lying on his left side," the report said. Linda Yancey, 44, was lying in a doorway. The officer spotted at least one silver shell casing on the floor, as well as a "large roll of bills, including $50 and $100 dollar bills," the report said.

"The detectives are not going into any details at this time," said department spokeswoman Mekka Parish. "It's all very fluid." Yancey has not been arrested or charged. Derrick and Linda Yancey both worked for the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department. Derrick, was a 17-year veteran who transported inmates, and Linda, spent 13 years there, most recently as intake officer in juvenile court.

Neither the Sheriff's Department nor county police officials would comment on Yancey's arrests in April and November 2006, in separate incidents involving his son Karron, now 18. Police reports, which include some improperly redacted information, show that, in the April incident, Yancey told police that his son hit him in the face when he tried to take away the teen's cellphone, as punishment for downloading "dirty music." A relative who was at the home called police, saying Linda Yancey said her husband chased their son out of the home with his pistol and threatened to "blow her son [sic] head off."

Linda Yancey later confirmed the threat but said her husband was not armed when he made it. (So that makes it alright in DeKalb County's cop-justice system!?!) In November, Yancey said he returned home to hear offensive music playing and confronted his son. The teen said Yancey hit him and threw his computer keyboard down, according to the report.