Thursday, March 28, 2024

Katt Williams Banned from Two Georgia Counties Under Plea Deal

Katt Williams
Katt Williams

*Comic Katt Williams must never step foot in two Georgia counties as part of a plea deal negotiated Thursday to assault charges in the state.

Williams, a former Hall County, GA resident, pleaded no contest to charges in connection with an alleged assault of his bodyguard, his attorney Drew Findling told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Williams and two acquaintances allegedly held and assaulted bodyguard Corey Dixon on Feb. 28, the day before Williams was arrested on a separate misdemeanor battery charge in Hall. One acquaintance, Tatiana Smith, 24, allegedly choked Dixon and assaulted him with a baseball bat.

“It’s our understanding that Mr. Williams was encouraging our victim, Mr. Dixon, to engage in some criminal activity in the Atlanta area,” former Hall sheriff’s spokeswoman Nicole Bailes said at the time.

Deputies executed a search of Williams’ home and found large quantities of marijuana and several firearms, Bailes said.

Williams was charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats, false imprisonment and felony possession of marijuana. He was indicted in March on those charges and others.

The Hall County District Attorney’s Office dismissed the aggravated assault and firearm possession charges as part of the plea deal, Findling said. The false imprisonment and terroristic threats charges were reduced to simple assault.

However, Williams was banned from Hall and Dawson counties and ordered to pay $7,500 in restitution to the victim. (The banishment extends to Dawson County because it is part of the same judicial circuit as Hall County.) He must also perform 100 hours of community service, District Attorney Ray Mayer told the Gainesville Times.

Williams will be on probation for five years as part of the deal. If he complies with the terms of his probation, the probation and the ban could end as soon as two years. If he abides by the court’s conditions, the marijuana charge also will be dismissed.

Williams still faces charges in connection with other incidents across the metro area. Of the other situations, Findling said he is “approaching things methodically, and whatever happens happens.”

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