Wednesday, January 10, 2024–11:37 a.m.
-Floyd County Jail records-
Man charged in prison assault
A 21-year-old Griffin man has been charged in connection with an alleged assault at the Floyd County Corrections Center on Blacks Bluff Road in Rome back on September 18.
According to an arrest warrant:
Samuel Dean Wallace and two other people got into an altercation.
One of the men was knocked to the ground, and Wallace was seen on the facility’s camera system securing the man’s right leg.
He then assisted in dragging the man from the dayroom to the sleeping area of a dorm.
The man was then assaulted by multiple other offenders, who also robbed the man of his store goods.
Wallace is charged with aggravated assault, participation in criminal street gang activity, and unlawful acts of violence in a penal institution.
Woman charged with aggravated animal cruelty
A 56-year-old Rome woman is accused of abandoning three dogs at a residence on Clover Street.
According to an arrest warrant:
Lillie Ruth Vaughn failed to provide one of the dogs, a Pyrenees, with adequate food, water, and shelter, causing extreme emaciation.
Vaughn is charged with a felony count of aggravated cruelty to animals.
Warrant: Woman pretended to witness kidnapping
A Cartersville woman is accused of calling 911 and pretending to be a witness to a kidnapping.
According to an arrest warrant:
The incident occurred on November 21 at a location on Shorter Avenue in Rome.
25-year-old Shardasia Jamilah McKever is charged with false statements, transmitting a false public alarm, false report of a crime, unlawful conduct during a 911 call, and 14 counts of obstruction of law enforcement.
Teen charged in January 5 burglary
A Rome teen was jailed Tuesday on a felony warrant charging him with 2nd-degree burglary.
According to the warrant:
18-year-old Thomas Eugene Franks Jr. entered a storage building on Park Road on January 5 and took a duffle bag and a backpack containing miscellaneous items including a wallet and $240.
Franks is also charged with a misdemeanor count of theft by taking.
Warrant: Man used someone else’s Social Security number on job application
A 43-year-old Rome man has been arrested on a felony warrant charging him with identity theft fraud.
According to the warrant:
Lucas Ajqui Gutierrez used someone else’s social security number when he filed a job application at Steel King Industries on Shorter Industrial Boulevard on February 2, 2020.
Man accused of trying to bring tobacco into prison
A former inmate at the Floyd County Prison is accused of conspiring with a man on the outside to bring two pounds of pipe tobacco into the facility.
According to an arrest warrant:
42-year-old Michael Joseph Otting of Flowery Branch arranged for the civilian to put the contraband into a specific trash can at Rotary Memorial Park on February 21, 2022, but investigators intercepted it.
The warrant states that Otting had planned to make money by selling the tobacco to other inmates.
Search warrant leads to cocaine trafficking charge
Rome-Floyd Metro Task Force officers executed a search warrant at a home on Watson Street Tuesday and arrested the resident on cocaine trafficking charges.
According to Floyd County Jail records:
41-year-old Lee Jay Lopez was in possession of two bags of cocaine weighing more than 28 grams, four firearms, and a digital scale.
Lopez is additionally charged with possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, and possession of drug-related objects.
Search warrant leads to drug arrest
A 44-year old Rome man was arrested Tuesday on Gordon Avenue on drug charges.
According to Floyd County Jail records:
Troy Shane Driver was found in possession of cocaine during the execution of a search warrant.
He tried to swallow the cocaine and was also found with a digital scale and a stolen firearm.
Driver is charged with possession of cocaine, possession with the intent to distribute, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, tampering with evidence, and theft by receiving.