Members of Assisted Suicide Group Charged over Death

Georgia authorities have charged four members of an alleged assisted suicide ring with helping a 58-year-old man there end his life.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Claire Blehr, 76, and Thomas E. Goodwin, 63, were arrested Wednesday at a home in Dawson County in the northern part of the state.

GBI spokesman John Bankhead also said Dr. Lawrence D. Egbert, 81, of Baltimore was arrested. Nicholas Alec Sheridan, also of Baltimore, has been charged but is not in custody.

Bankhead said the four are members of the Final Exit Network.

They were charged with assisted suicide, tampering with evidence and a violation of Georgia's anti-racketeering act. Authorities in at least eight other states are executing search warrants related to the investigation.

(AP)