Police officer arrested on child molestation charge

GRAY - Gray Police Department patrolman James Albert (Jay) Clark II was arrested Friday and charged with one count of child molestation, according to special agent in charge Tom Davis of the Milledgeville office of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Gray Police Chief Billy Bagwell said the GBI issued an arrest warrant for Clark, 22, on Friday morning and that Clark turned himself in to the Jones County Law Enforcement Center.

Capt. Guy Mosteller of the Jones County Sheriff's Department said Clark was booked and released Friday afternoon on a $5,000 property bond.