Salter, Medina Indicted by Grand Jury

Wendy

WENDY POWELL SALTER

Medina

EZEQUIEL MEDINA

The November term of the Toombs County Grand Jury convened recently and returned indictments on all the cases presented to them by Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tripp Fitzner’s Office. Among those individuals indicted were two in which allegations against them brought a heightened interest in many in the community.

In April of this year, Wendy Salter and her daughter Stella were reported missing to the Lyons Police Department. Days after the report, the mother and child were found to be in Puerto Rico where Wendy Salter was taken into custody and eventually extradited back to Toombs County and her daughter was returned to her custodial father who lives in this area.

During its latest term, Toombs County Grand Jurors did indict Wendy Powell Salter on the offense of Interstate Interference with custody.

Another familiar person indicated by the Grand Jury was Ezequiel Medina. In September, the then 17-year-old was initially arrested for allegedly making a social media post of a terroristic nature the day after two students and two teachers died from a student who open fired at a school in Apalachee, Georgia. However, those were the charges on which Medina was indicted last week.

After being booked into the Toombs County Detention Center. Law enforcement discovered evidence in the form of a digital video depicting Medina having sexual contact with a child under the age of 16 years. Last week he was officially charged with two counts of aggravated child molestation; two counts of sexual exploitation of children; and one count of child molestation.

Medina has been in the Toombs County Detention Center since he was arrested in September having been denied bond on the child molestation allegations.

In another indictment Azairian Octavous Wright was indicted on malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony which caused the death of Ladarius Cobb in November of last year. Wright was arrested in Vidalia on December 28, 2023, following a search by the Vidalia Police Department, U.S. marshal Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.