Area News

According to Summerville Police incident reports: * Robert LuAllen, of Hinton Street, said someone stole his Murray push mower from his backyard. The mower is valued at $50. * Cherie Castro, 33, of Pine Hill Apartments, was arrested at Ingles for shoplifting last Thursday. “Castro” took numerous items and then concealed these items in her purse…

Escaping “monsters and worms,” coming out of the ground, Anthony G. Stricklin drove his red 2002 Chevrolet S-1o to the Summerville Police station seeking help on Sunday afternoon, according to an incident report. Officers watched as 57-year-old Stricklin parked in front of the Summerville Fire Department’s bay doors and blocked it. He jumped out of…

Charges against a man accused of sexually molesting an unconscious man continues to grow, according to Chattooga County Jail reports. Originally Micheal Shedd, 38, was accused of aggravated sodomy, misdemeanor sexual battery and unlawfully recording a sex act without consent. As of this weekend, Summerville Police officials have added another charge — felony exploitation of a…

On Thursday, April 11, 2019, Agents with the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force, Chattooga County Sheriff Office, Trion Police Department, Summerville Police Department and Department of Community Supervision conducted narcotic investigations in Chattooga and Walker Counties. As the results of these investigations, the arrests of ten individuals on Violation of Georgia Control Substance…

——- The man who abandoned a moving vehicle during a multi-state police chase in April 2018 has been sentenced to prison by a U.S. Federal Court judge from the U.S. Northern District of Alabama. The driver left a passenger and a truck rolling down Hwy. 48 near the Menlo city limits during a chase with law enforcement agencies from Alabama…