Police/Crime News

PRESS RELEASE: The following individuals have been arrested in the double murder investigation for the deaths of Vanita Richardson and Truvenia Campbell: Desmond Lavonta Brown, age 28, charged with Malice Murder (2cts), Felony Murder (2 […]

Tallapoosa, GA (July 2, 2020) – On Thursday, July 02, 2020, the GBI arrested Superior Court Judge Meng Lim and charged him with one misdemeanor count of battery under the Georgia Family Violence Act.  Judge […]

The Georgia State Patrol said that three people were injured and transported to the hospital following a grizzly wreck on Highway 278 Monday morning. The wreck reportedly occurred when a Ford pickup truck driving northbound […]

Rome Police Department: The juvenile suspect in the Grady Avenue homicide has been charged with one count of Murder. On Monday, June 1, 2020 at approximately 7:02pm, the Rome Police Department responded to the area […]

Out of an abundance of caution for the safety of our citizens and the officers of the court, and in compliance with guidelines from the State, Chief Municipal Court Judge Andrew B. Roper has announced […]

A Floyd County woman has been arrested, accused of bringing two teenage girls to Alabama for purposes of sex trafficking. The girls were found and taken to an advocacy agency. Marlette Lychelle Smith, age 26 […]

MEDIA RELEASE Sunday afternoon at 1:13 p.m. Polk County 911 received calls that a two vehicle accident had occurred on Hwy. 27 South near Shoemake Road in Cedartown, resulting in one of the vehicles overturning. […]

MEDIA RELEASE Polk County Public Safety personnel had a very busy weekend which came to a tragic point on Sunday. Polk Co. 911 received a call to a bicycle accident on the Silver Comet Trail […]

MEDIA RELEASE The Cedartown Police Department has released more information regarding the shooting death of 36-year-old Cedartown resident Rekiesha Moore.  In the early-morning hours of March 31, Moore was killed from a gunshot fired by […]

MEDIA RELEASE Cedartown Police are investigating a March 31 early morning shooting on Jule Peek Avenue that left one person dead and one injured. According to Cedartown Police Chief Jamie Newsome, a woman suffered a […]