Man draws decades behind bars for Augusta attack on estranged wife

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – A judge accepted a guilty plea in the 2022 case of a man accused of holding his estranged wife at gunpoint and threatening to set her on fire before deputies showed up.

The suspect, Frank Ward, was sentenced Thursday to 20 years behind bars.

The incident happened Feb. 12, 2022, in the 2400 block of Lisbon Road, where deputies went after getting a 911 call with no one on the line…

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