Former Athens-Clarke County officer Amber Ferguson was arrested by the GBI on child sexual exploitation charges.

An Athens-Clarke police officer was fired Tuesday after warrants were taken in Commerce charging her with a crime against a child.

COMMERCE, Ga. — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) has arrested Amber Nicole Ferguson, a former officer with the Athens-Clarke County Police Department, on two counts of sexual exploitation of children. Ferguson, a 33-year-old from Commerce, Georgia, surrendered to authorities at the Jackson County Jail on Monday, Jan. 15 at 8 a.m.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) made an arrest in a child molestation case out of Bainbridge. On Dec. 5, the Decatur County Sheriff’s Office requested the GBI to investigate allegations that Cory Hall,