Westminster Man Booked on Outstanding Assault and Battery Warrant

43 year old Roger Michael Gilliam of Little Choestoea Road was booked into the Oconee
County Detention Center at 3:07am Wednesday on an outstanding warrant from late December of 2021 for a charge of Assault and Battery – High and Aggravated.

Late Tuesday evening of this week, deputies were notified of a reported kidnapping of a child from Stephens County, GA in which Gilliam was identified as a suspect, and that he was headed to the Westminster area.

Deputies responded to an address on Pump House Road where Gilliam and the child were located. The child was returned to of his mother and a deputy from the Stephens County
Sheriff’s Office arrived on scene to continue the investigation into the reported kidnapping.
Gilliam was placed under arrest on the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office warrant and transported to the Detention Center.

The outstanding arrest warrant against Gilliam was in regards to a disturbance call at a separate address on Little Choestoea Road during the late evening hours of December 28 of last year. Gilliam is accused of using a knife to cut the victim of the assault on his rib cage, which required medical attention. Gilliam had left the incident scene that evening before deputies arrived.

Gilliam was given a $10,000 surety bond and was released from the Detention Center after it was posted.