The property tax deadline is December 1st, but Chattooga County Tax Commissioner Joy Hampton says that she is going to give a grace period for those needing to get their property taxes paid.
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, November 30, 2022:
A Summerville woman and a homeless man were charged with burglary after they were found squatting inside a vacant apartment building on College Street in Summerville.
Summerville Police are investigating the theft of some tools that belong to a Cartersville man who was working in Chattooga County earlier this month. Corey Elrod told Summerville Police that he had been staying at the Coach Inn off the Lyerly Highway and had left a green, Ryobi tool bag in the bed of his Dodge pickup truck. The theft was believed to have happened sometime between 8 PM on November 17th and 8 AM on November 18th. The bag contained a variety of hand tools. The incident has been turned over to an investigator with the Summerville Police Department.
Chattooga County homeowners and landowners have until tomorrow to pay their 2022 property taxes without incurring any penalties. The property tax due date in Chattooga County is December 1st. Taxpayers are reminded that the Chattooga County Tax Office is closed on Wednesdays.
A former Chattooga County Deputy has been arrested by the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force on drug charges. Thirty-five-year-old Marvin James Armstrong was booked into jail on felony charges of attempt or conspiracy to violate the Georgia Controlled Substance Act and use of a communication facility in commission of a felony involving controlled substances. Armstrong was booked into the Floyd County Jail on the charges on Monday of this week. Chattooga County Sheriff Mark Schrader told WZQZ News that Armstrong was terminated the first week of August.
According to a report released this week by the Summerville Police Department, a fifty-three-year-old Northwest Congress Street, Summerville man was arrested earlier this month on DUI charges after a Summerville police officer saw him driving and knew that the driver had suspended or revoked license.
The first day of early voting in Chattooga County saw a record number of voters turn out to cast their ballots in the runoff election between incumbent Democrat U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker his Republican Challenger.
On November 10, 2022, Sen. Jeff Mullis (R – Chickamauga) held the Native American Peace Tree Ceremony alongside Rep. Matt Hatchett (R – Dublin), Rep. Katie Dempsey (R – Rome) and the Georgia Council on American Indian Concerns at Liberty Plaza at the Georgia State Capitol.
On November 16, 2022, Jonathan Alexander, a 49-year-old man from Walker County, was convicted of Trafficking Methamphetamine, Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute, Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Distribute, Possession of Marijuana, and Possession of a firearm during commission of a felony. The evidence presented at trial showed that on February 7, 2022 law enforcement arrived at Jonathan Alexander’s camper residence, located on 511 Cook Road in Walker County with members of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force and Department of Community Supervision.