
A forty-year-old Trion man was arrested on Saturday of last week after a call to 911 about a “peeping Tom” in the Airport Road area. The complainant told a responding deputy that a man was peeping in her window. When the woman retrieved a gun, the subject ran off. The residence was inside a gated area, according to the report. Deputies later located the suspect, identified as Matthew Ralls Jennings. Jennings was carrying a large knife. Jennings told deputies that he had “heard noises” at that is why he had gone to the house on Airport Road. Jennings was arrested and taken to the Chattooga County Jail on charges of loitering and prowling and being a peeping Tom. According to Georgia law, “peeping Tom” means: a person who peeps through windows or doors, or other like places, on or about the premises of another for the purpose of spying upon or invading the privacy of the persons spied upon and the doing of any other acts of a similar nature which invade the privacy of such persons. Georgia Code § 16-11-61







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