An Alabama woman was taken to a hospital in Floyd County after being injured by her own car.
The woman's Kia SUV reportedly ran out of gas on highway 100 in Holland and a motorist, that was driving by, stopped to help push the SUV out of the roadway. As the Kia was being pushed the woman somehow fell out of the vehicle. At that point the car was heading down a small ditch area and the woman's legs went underneath the car.
There is no word on the woman's condition.
The National Day of Prayer is Thursday, May 2. The event will be recognized locally at 6 p.m. that day at the Chattooga Civic Center.
The event will include prayers for our nation. Pastor Francois Carr, from South Africa of Hearts Cry Ministry, will be the featured speaker at the civic center.
This year is the 62nd Day of Prayer in America. Themed Pray for America, the national verse is Matthew 12:21. The Chattooga focus verse is 2 Chronicles 7:14
For more information call: Betty Mosley, organizer at 706-857-2195; Ronnie Richter at 706-766-3146 or 706-857-7995; or Marsha Farrow at 706-859-2624.
A Trion man reported to the Chattooga County Sheriff's Department last week that his dog may have been shot by a neighbor.
Benjamin Johnson, of a Diamond Lane, Trion, address, called 911 around 2 a.m. April 26 to report that his dog may have been shot. Johnson said he discovered the dog at about 12:30 a.m. bleeding from his chest. He said he wasn't positive but it appeared the dog had been shot with some type of small pellet. He said someone had told him that his neighbors had been shooting guns the same day. Deputies were unable to make contact with the neighbors that allegedly were shooting guns.
Two Chattooga County residents, as well as a Floyd County woman have been arrested for their involvement in a criminal ring that spans from Georgia to Pennsylvania.
According to the indictment, Chattooga residents, 36-year-old Astrid Perry and 25-year-old Heather A. Smith, as well as Floyd resident Beverly J. McHenry, and five others were involved in a conspiracy to use identification: including names and social security numbers, of other people, some of which are prisoners incarcerated in state correctional facilities in Georgia, to unlawfully file false electronic and paper tax returns in which false refunds were claimed.
The group is being charged under the federal mail and wire fraud statute.
The conspirators in Pennsylvania would gather social security numbers and then call or mail them to Georgia for Smith, Perry and McHenry to process.
Smith and McHenry are accused of using an online tax service called, `Taxslayer.com` to file fake tax returns. The refunds were either electronically funneled to bank accounts in Georgia and Pennsylvania or mailed to post office boxes in Rome or Summerville.
Authorities said that Smith and McHentry opened several fake bank accounts around the area.
The indictment said that they used the names, D`s Gutter Cleaning Service, Heather Tax and Accounting, Williams Repair and Remodeling, Bells Tax Service, and Frank Smith Tax Consulting and Home Repair for the deposits.
The group also used H&R Block Emerald Prepaid MasterCards to divert money, records state.
All three Georgia residents were taken before the Rome district federal court magistrate judge and given a $20,000 bond. They all have to appear in a Pittsburg federal court later this week.
Chattooga County Road and Bridge Director Joe Reed says Lyerly
Dam Road has water over it and will be impassable this afternoon.
Motorists are advised to plan alternate routes. Issue is not expected
to last for a long period.
A Dalton woman says she was kidnapping in Dalton and brought to Chattooga County, but then refused to talk to Sheriff's Department investigators.
The 21-year-old woman told deputies she was walking on Highway 201 near Dalton on April 26, going to a friend's house when a dark colored vehicle, possibly a Dodge Charger, pulled up. She said she got into the vehicle, occupied by two Hispanic males, when they asked her if she needed a ride.
She said they drove past where she wanted to go and the driver would not let her out of the vehicle when she asked him to stop. By this time, the vehicle and its occupants were in Chattooga County. The woman said she called 911 and the men heard her make the call. One man, reportedly named Jay, opened up the vehicle glove compartment, retrieved a gun and is alleged to have laid it on lap. He reportedly said, he was not going to jail.
The driver reportedly stopped at the the intersection of Gore-Subligna Road and E. Armuchee and told the woman to get out of the vehicle. The woman reportedly went to an empty house on West Armuchee Road and waited for deputies, according to the report. The woman told deputies that the vehicle had the same type of equipment as the deputies' patrol vehicle and its occupants could hear everything officers were saying to 911 and other departments.
She alleges that at one point the man named Jay said he had a house in Trion, where they could take her and they would "take care of her.
Once at the Sheriff's department, the woman reportedly refused to talk to investigators. A friend took her home.
Sheriff Mark Schrader said he "finds it odd that the woman wouldn't speak to investigators about a possible kidnapping incident." He said deputies are trying to follow up on the reported incident and will try to talk with the woman again. He said he is checking with Dalton/Whitfield County law enforcement to see if there has been a similar incident in the past.
Schrader said the woman's descriptions were vague but deputies are looking for a vehicle that fits the suspect vehicle in the area.
Memorial services for Mrs. Hattie Patterson will be held at Cedar Springs
Baptist Church on Sunday, May 5th at 3:00 pm. She was a member of
Cedar Springs Baptist Church. She is survived by two sons, Broderick
Bateman (Michelle), Brittan Bateman (Teicher), Five grandchildren, one
brother, Curtis Hudgins (Edna), Three sisters, Annie Martin, Myrtle Price,
and Ramona Hudgins, Six nephews and one niece, Three sisters in law,
Moselle Patterson, Cora Patterson, Edna Hudgins, Two brothers in law,
Leslie and Elvin Patterson. She was preceded in death by her husband
Emmanuel Patterson four years ago.
Listed on the April 29 Arrest Report at the Chattooga County Jail are:
Joshua Anthony Day — Hunting without permission; Discharging a firearm from across the road; Hunting from a vehicle
Chattooga County deputies pulled over a semi truck in Menlo this morning after the truck ran the four way stop at the intersection of Highway 48 and Highway 337. Sheriff Mark Schrader said that deputies pulled the truck over after it ran the stop sign and nearly struck a couple of vehicles. The truck was pulling a van trailer full of cotton headed to Mount Vernon Mills in Trion from somewhere in Tennessee. The driver told deputies that he came off of Lookout Mountain and had no brakes when he got to the four way stop. Sheriff Schrader said that deputies were writing the man tickets for running the stop sign and for improper lane usage. The deputies called the Georgia D.O.T. to the scene as well.
