Rome-Floyd Metro Task Force officers arrested four men in the West Rome area on Friday, charging them with conspiracy to traffic marijuana and other charges, including a California man wanted by U.S. Marshalls.

According to Floyd County Jail records:

23-year-old Jamaican Ja Mal Malik Mitchell and 33-year-old Marcus Antwan Townsend, both of Rome, along with 29-year-old Vernon Dean Mandigo of San Francisco, California, and 31-year-old Antwan G. Serchion of Atlanta met with other people to discuss dividing and distributing more than 10 pounds of marijuana.

Mitchell and Serchion were additionally charged with trafficking marijuana and all four men were also charged with possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.

Mandigo and Townsend were additionally charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Mandigo also had a firearm with an altered identification mark, gave police a false name, and is wanted by US Marshals in Virginia on an outstanding warrant.

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