Former Bibb deputy facing 13 new charges

MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A former Bibb County Sheriff’s deputy is facing 13 new charges after his grand jury hearing.

Prestridge was arrested in February after an internal affairs investigation showed he choked, kicked and refused to let his girlfriend leave the house in October. He was charged with aggravated assault, aggravated battery and false imprisonment.

The indictment says Jeffrey Brian Prestridge has assaulted five different women and threatening another since 2013. It also accuses him of hitting and kicking two children.

The grand jury charged Prestridge with aggravated battery, aggravated assault and false imprisonment for allegedly hitting, kicking, choking and confining a woman in October 2015. The indictment says this woman suffered a rib fracture from the beatings.

The indictment charges Prestridge with aggravated assault for allegedly choking another woman in March 2015.

Prestridge is charged with terroristic threats and simple battery for allegedly telling a third woman he was going to kill her and pushing her face against a glass window in January 2015.

Jurors also charged Prestridge with aggravated assault, terroristic threats, battery and simple battery for allegedly choking, threatening, grabbing and pushing a fourth woman against a glass window in May 2014.

The indictment says Prestridge is charged with two county of aggravated assault – family violence and terroristic threats for allegedly chocking, hitting and threatening a fifth woman in June 2013.

The grand jury also indicted Prestridge on one count of terroristic threats for threatening to kill a sixth woman in March 2014.

Prestridge is also facing two counts of cruelty to children in the first degree for allegedly hitting and kicking two children under 18.

Prestridge is being held in the Bibb County Jail without bond.