Listed on the January 10 Arrest Report at the Chattooga Jail are:

Rolanda Carol Cannon, Summerville — No Charges Listed

Henry Daniel Carie, Rome — Child Support

Cynthia Amanda Namore, Trion — Public Drunkeness

Larry Mack Silvers, Calhoun — Probabation Violation

Jonathan Lloyd Arnold, Summerville — Suspended/Cancelled Registration; No Insurance/No Proof of Insurance; Failure to Maintain a Single Lane

Wayne Thomas Blackmon, Jr., Summerville — Public Intoxication

David Charles Livingston, Rome — Loitering/Prowling

Christopher Benny Morgan, Menlo — Obstruction or Hindering Persons Making Emergency Telephone Call; Public Drunkeness 

 Christopher Thomas Warren, Trion — Disorderly Conduct; Good Behavior Warrant

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It made national headlines when a man handcuffed himself to a co-worker at the Taco Bell in Ringgold. Jason Earl Dean said, at the time of his arrest, that he "wanted a date" with the young woman. On Monday 25-year-old Dean received a 10-year sentence for the stung. Judge Ralph Van Pelt gave Dean four years in prison, plus six years on probation with specific conditions. He is to have no contact with the victim or her family.  

US Representative Tom Graves is again co-sponsoring the "Fair Tax", introduced this year as HR 25. The plan would repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and replace the current federal income tax code with a single, national consumption tax. Graves said, "this is the kind of fundamental reform we need to change the direction of our country. Under the fair tax, families could budget on their actual income and use their purchasing power to prow the private sector and create jobs. It would be an honest, simple and fair tax code that would eliminate the expensive filings, confusing forms and legions of IRS agents," according to Graves. 54 members of the New Congress have signed on as as co-sponsors of HR 25.