Media release: In recent years, the Rome Police Department has increased their enforcement efforts towards DUI violators around the St. Patrick’s Day holiday period. This holiday is often times referred to as an “adult holiday” due to the increased consumption of alcoholic beverages during celebrations affiliated with it. The Rome Police Department would like to… Read more
From WRGA: An armed robbery Friday night resulted in an injured store clerk at a local gas station. According to Rome Police Sgt. Bryan Goresh, two black males entered the BP gas station on Cartersville Highway around 11 p.m. The men then left the store and came back in to rob it. Sgt. Goresh said shelves… Read more
Friday evening from Floyd County Police: “Inmate Garrett Shields has been arrested in Atlanta by fugitive officers.” And this note from the state Department of Corrections’ Twitter feed: Georgia Corrections @GA_Corrections · 20m20 minutes ago .@GA_Corrections #RECAPTURED Floyd Co. Inmate Garrett Shields back in custody. read more
Media release: Felix Moreno-Garcia and Fabian Pineda-Garcia have been sentenced for possessing over four pounds of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. “These brothers were significant contributors to the Northwest Georgia methamphetamine market,” said Acting U.S. Attorney John Horn. “Thankfully, DEA agents and the Lookout Mountain Drug Task Force successfully put an end to this… Read more
Media release: On Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 5:54 a.m, Bartow County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to Five Forks Grocery at 10 Lowery Road in Kingston in reference to an armed robbery. According to Sheriff Clark Millsap, the clerk told deputies a white male subject wearing an orange Nike sweatshirt, sun glasses and a gray bandanna… Read more
Authorities are continuing to investigate what appears to have been a domestic disturbance that escalated into a murder/suicide on Monday. News of the shootings and subsequent investigation led to the lockdown of two nearby schools. The call came in as a shooting at Winchester Drive in the Hunters Landing subdivision read more
From Brad Cothran, Bartow County EMS: The emergency medical service “responded to the scene of a possible person shot with a firearm in the Euharlee area on Winchester Drive. Bartow County Sheriff’s Office, Euharlee Police and the Geogia State Patrol are on the scene. A female patient was brought out to the EMS unit for… Read more
Thanks to Poncho Wilson for the head’s up on the accident at U.S. 411 and the Bypass just before noon today.
From WRGA: Rome police are looking for a man that held up the Bojangles at 1383 Redmond Circle around 7:34 p.m. on Friday evening. According to Capt. Paul Greene of the Rome Police Department, a black male carrying a handgun and wearing a disguise came in the back door of the business and demanded money. read… Read more
Media release: According to Bartow Coutny Sheriff Clark Millsap, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, at about 5:51 a.m., a white male wearing a Nike sweatshirt/hoodie, an UnderArmor hat and a bandana around his face entered the Five Forks Grocery convenience store at 10 Lowery Road in Taylorsville. The man was holding a black pistol when he walked in.… Read more
Emerson Mack Abbott Jr. has been charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of James and Myra Reeves, the east Floyd County couple found shot Jan. 23 at their home at 49 Terhune Road, according to Floyd County Police. The investigation was conducted by the police department’s criminal investigation division as well… Read more
If you haven’t done so yet, now is the right time to download the free Floyd County Emergency Management app from Apple or Android. Here’s what you need to know (from our report earlier this month): Floyd County’s Emergency Management Office has secured an app that contains just about everything you need to have at… Read more
From WRGA: A four-year-old child struck by a vehicle on Friday night is in good condition at Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital, hospital officials said. Campbell Epting, her father, James Epting and her six-year old brother, were struck by a Chevrolet Tahoe on Friday night on Shorter Avenue near Sherwood Drive. read more
Talk about a baptism by fire. If you haven’t done so yet, now is the right time to download the free Floyd County Emergency Management app from Apple or Android. The latest updates on local roads we’re posting from EMA are coming straight from the news/events folder on the app. read more
Media release: A Cartersville man has been arrested for several charges relating to a 2014 forgery and theft investigation. According to Sheriff Clark Millsap, Investigators from the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office arrested Terrance Michael White, 18, of Cartersville for 1 count Forgery in the fourth degree and 3 counts of Financial Transaction Card Fraud on… Read more