Some people in small, rural communities like Chattooga County scoff at the idea of active gangs perpetrating crime in our area.   However, law enforcement says that not only is gang activity prevalent – it is also extremely dangerous.  The most active gang in North Georgia is the all-white Ghostface Gang.  Members of this gang are heavily involved in drug activity and have been involved in numerous violent crimes.  Two of the gang’s members were arrested this week in Floyd county in connection with a 2022 crime. Thirty-four-year-old Dustin Earl Cotton of Cedartown and forty-one-year-old Scotty Joel Venable of Rome supervised the crimes that were committed by two other gang members. One member held the victim while the other struck the victim in the body and head with a metal object. Cotton and Venable are charged with aggravated assault, participation in criminal street gang activity, false imprisonment, and battery. The Ghost Face Gangsters started inside Georgia’s prison system and spread into communities primarily in Georgia and the Southeast.