Ex-Deputy charged with killing wife and day laborer
Derrick Yancey has surrendered to authorities
By DAVID MARKIEWICZ, DAVID SIMPSON

The Atlanta Journal-Const

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Former DeKalb County sheriff’s deputy Derrick Yancey was charged with murder Thursday in the shooting deaths of his wife and a day laborer at his home June 9.

Yancey was indicted on two counts of murder in the deaths of his wife, Linda Yancey, 44, and the laborer, Marcial Cax-Puluc, whom police said was age 23. Don Geary, DeKalb chief assistant district attorney, said Yancey, who resigned from the sheriff’s office on Monday, also faces two weapons charges in the incident.

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• DeKalb County news Yancey told police he killed Cax-Puluc after the illegal Guatemalan immigrant shot Linda Yancey. Derrick Yancey said he had hired Cax-Puluc to do yard work. He said the man found one of Yancey’s guns in his home and used it to try to rob Linda Yancey.

Yancey surrendered to authorities at the DeKalb County Jail at 2:40 p.m. Thursday, said Mikki Jones, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office. She said he would be moved to another jail because of his former job with the sheriff’s office, which oversees the DeKalb jail.

Linda Yancey also worked for the sheriff’s office. She spent 13 years there, most recently as an intake officer in juvenile court. Derrick Yancey
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