MACON, Ga. — Former Macon-Bibb mayoral candidate Shekita Maxwell started serving a 60-day jail sentence on Tuesday after a state court judge revoked her probation, according to court officials.
Back on Aug. 31, 2023, Maxwell was accused of attacking a property manager at the Bowman Station apartments in North Macon after Maxwell accused maintenance workers of getting dust on her car.
According to Bibb County State Court Clerk Katie Liipfert, Maxwell was sentenced to 60 days in jail on June 21. But the judge suspended the jail time, allowing her to serve the sentence on probation instead.
However, a Bibb County incident report says, three days after the judge issued the suspended sentence, Maxwell allegedly slammed her daughter's head into a toilet at a home on Atwood Drive.
Deputies say her 23-year-old daughter met them in the driveway, bleeding above her right eye. She told deputies that Maxwell attacked her and threw her phone in the yard to prevent her from calling 911, the report said.
Maxwell was arrested in July and charged with battery, false imprisonment and interfering in a call for emergency assistance.
According to Bibb County Solicitor General Rebecca Grist, that recent arrest violated Maxwell's probation in the 2023 Bowman Station case. That led Judge Sharell Lewis to revoke Maxwell's probation on Tuesday.
After the hearing, Maxwell was taken to the Bibb County Jail to begin serving her sentence.
Maxwell ran unsuccessfully for Macon-Bibb mayor back in the May 2024 elections. She got 14% of the vote, and Mayor Lester Miller 86% of the vote.
She sued the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections to get the election results thrown out, but a judge threw her lawsuit out last week.