
Here is the latest arrest report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office for Wednesday, December 29, 2021:
Mr. Jimmy Lynn Maddux, age 73 of the Waterville Community, Trion, passed away Monday, December 27, 2021 at the Redmond Regional Medical Center.

NGEMC is reporting over 1,600 people without power in Chattooga County. The outage was reported at 4:22 AM and is affecting people from Ridgeway Drive in Trion to Fish Hatchery Road / Back Berryton Road in Summerville. A smaller outage is being reported in the Halls Valley Area that extends from just north of Stoleman Road into a small portion of Walker County.

Attorney General Chris Carr and Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) Commissioner Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.PH, are warning Georgians to beware of potential scams related to the heightened demand for COVID-19 testing.

A thirty-year-old James Street, Summerville man was arrested last week after he got into a fist fight with a Trion man and then attempted to get the victim to lie to police.

The Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force made three arrests on Monday, including two accused of distributing illegal drugs.

An inmate at the Floyd County Jail is facing charges of interference with government property, unlawful acts of violence in a penal institution, and criminal damage to property following an incident Sunday morning.

A report out this month by a federal committee on pandemic relief oversight detailed the vulnerabilities of state workforce agencies that resulted in more than $39 billion in improper unemployment payments during the first year of the pandemic.

One of the biggest challenges facing Georgia right now is finding more workers. As of this month, there are more people working in the state than ever before. Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler says attracting more workers is Georgia’s biggest challenge.










