GAINESVILLE, Ga. -- A DeKalb County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for attempting to defraud the bank where he used to work.

William "Rusty" Beamon Jr., 52, will be arraigned Monday in Gainesville.

According to information presented in court, Beamon was vice president of Ellijay-based Appalachian Community Bank, which failed in 2010.

In 2009, Beamon told a real estate agent that he owned and wanted to rent out a house in Cumming, although the house was actually owned by Appalachian Comunity Bank. When the agent negotiated a lease for the house on his behalf, Beamon took more than $20,000 from a renter and deposited it into his personal bank account.

He also allowed the bank to make loans to his wife and a shell company he owned, and finance fraudulent real estate purchases of properties in the bank's foreclosure inventory, according to U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates.

BUFORD, Ga. -- A missing man and his 5-year-old son were involved in a police chase in Gwinnett County last week.

PHOTOS | Mug Shots: See 'em to Believe 'em

A police officer pulled over 33-year-old Jeremiah E. Johnson's car after the man ran a red light at the intersection of Nelson Brogdon Boulevard and Buford Highway in Buford on Jan. 11.

While running the car's information, the officer learned Johnson was reported missing in Iowa and that he had taken his son, Johnnathon Johnson, during a custody dispute with the child's mother, according to Gwinnett County Police. The officer spotted Johnnathon in the back seat of the car.

When the officer asked Johnson to step out of the car, the suspect drove away, with the child still inside. The officer followed, but lost Johnson's car as it crossed into Forsyth County, police said.

ATLANTA -- The Georgia Supreme Court has dismissed a pretrial appeal by a man who said his constitutional right to a speedy trial had been violated.

Marcin Waldermar Sosniak faces the death penalty in the March 2006 slayings of four people in a Forsyth County farmhouse.

In an opinion published Monday, the court says Sosniak failed to follow the proper procedure in filing his appeal. The high court says its decision overturns its own prior rulings that gave defendants the right to an automatic appeal of a denial of a pretrial constitutional speedy trial claim.

The opinion says that even if Sosniak had followed proper procedure, the trial court carefully evaluated his claims and correctly denied the appeal.

A call to a lawyer for Sosniak was not immediately returned.