WZQZ reported last week about three Alabama residents who were arrested for a string of thefts that stretched from Northeast Alabama to Northwest Georgia. The three suspects are now in jail in Georgia and will be facing charges from multiple jurisdictions.
A Summerville woman reported a case of debit card fraud to the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office on December 1st. Helen Nichols told a responding deputy that there were two charges to her debit card totally $70 that were not authorized by her. Both of the charges were for a “lift ride company which is like Uber”, according to a report from the sheriff’s office. The complainant told the deputy that she had allowed someone who had been staying with her to use the card for groceries and believes he might be the one that used the card. The deputy advised the complainant to call the bank and cancel the card and advised that the case would be passed on to an investigator.
Susan Locklear with the City of Summerville has notified local media that due to the forecast of rain on Friday, Christmas in the Park has been postponed. Ms. Locklear said “Due to the foreacst of rain and the condition of the park, we are going to move Christmas in the Park to the rain date of Friday, December 16, from 6 PM – 9 PM”.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, December 7, 2022:
With 99% of the vote counted in Georgia, incumbent U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock has been projected to be the winner of the runoff election on Tuesday evening. The Georgia Secretary of State’s office says Warnock received 51.28% of the vote to Walker’s 48.72%. Chattooga County voters voted overwhelmingly for Walker and that was the case in every Northwest Georgia county. Warnock’ victory came from a heavy concentration of votes in the state’s major metro-areas and a handful of southwest Georgia counties.
A Chattooga County man was scammed out of hundreds of dollars by someone claiming to be with “Probation and Parole”. According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, Charles Akery said he got a phone call saying a family member was getting out of incarceration on December 1st and that they need payments for the family member’s ankle monitoring service.
WZQZ News heard from several Trion residents with questions about the Trion Town Council looking into mold remediation at the current Trion Police Department. We reached out to Mayor Lanny Thomas who provided the following explanation:
Chattooga County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a Maffet Street address in Trion after a Pit Bull attacked its owners and a neighbor’s dog.
The past week or so has been a deadly one on Floyd County roadways. Monday, a nineteen-year-old man was killed off Calhoun Road, marking the third traffic fatality in eight days. One of those fatalities was a twenty-five-year-old Summerville man.
A Floyd County Jail inmate, who is being held for Chattooga County, is accused of attacking a fellow-inmate and threatening to kill the other inmate. According to Floyd County Jail reports, Anthony Dennis Walker, age 21 of Winterville, Georgia is facing additional charges after he allegedly repeatedly beat another person with his fist and feet while stating that he was going to kill him. Authorities went on to say that the victim suffered visible injuries to his face from the attack. Walker is charged with aggravated assault battery and terroristic threats and acts. He had been housed at the jail since Thursday as a hold for Chattooga County.
