THOMASVILLE — An Albany man charged with a string of crimes was found guilty in a four-day Thomas County Superior Court and sentenced to prison.

Alvin Davis Jr. was sentenced to 25 years in prison on convictions of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

Davis was acquitted of an armed robbery charge. A charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon was dismissed.

Davis was denied bond and has been held in the Thomas County Jail since being arrested in January 2014 in a Colquitt County traffic stop.

In October 2013, Davis and another man went to a Festus Street residence armed with a stolen firearm and took $800 from the victim.

The victim, who never reported the incident, was shot at as he ran from the house.

Louis Schofill, then a Thomasville Police Department detective, learned about the incident several days later. At the time, Schofill was investigating the theft of a laser-equipped firearm that was traced to the Festus Street incident.

Jim Prine, assistant district attorney, commended Schofill for his role in bringing Davis to justice.

Judge Harry Jay Altman sentenced Davis to 20 years in prison on the aggravated assault conviction and to a consecutive five years on the firearm conviction.

The 2012 incident is not Davis’ first run-in with the law in Thomas County.

In 1995, Davis was convicted of aggravated assault, aggravated stalking and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The incident involved his children’s mother.

Davis was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He was released in 2007 and banished from Thomas County until the end of his probation in January 2015.

Davis was in Thomas County in violation of the banishment at the time of the 2013 incident.

Davis’ two sons were convicted in the July 2012 murder of a South Carolina soldier lured to Thomasville by a woman with whom he had served in the military.

One of the sons entered pleas to murder and arson.

Alvin Davis III stood trial and was convicted of murder, arson, armed robbery, aggravated assault and cruelty to children. The convicted killer’s father attended the trial, again in violation of the banishment.

The soldier’s Mercedes was burned on Millpond Road in the presence of a child.

Senior reporter Patti Dozier can be reached at (229) 226-2400, ext. 1820.