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Elderly Woman Charged with Hitting Pedestrian in Walmart Parking Lot
An eighty-five-year-old Trion woman was charged after video footage showed her vehicle hitting a pedestrian in the parking lot of Walmart in Trion. According to a report from the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office, the pedestrian was walking into the store with her family and moved to the side to get out of the path of the vehicle driven by Mamie Hartline. The sheriff’s department maintains that video footage from Walmart surveillance shows Hartline swerving toward the family and striking a young female with the mirror of her vehicle. After striking the pedestrian, the footage shows Hartline’s vehicle slowing down, and words were exchanged between the victim’s family members. Hartline then parked the car, went inside, and started grocery shopping.
Arrest reports for July 21
Inmate accused of trying to smuggle drugs into prison. A Lilburn man is accused of conspiring with three other inmates to smuggle contraband into the Floyd County Prison in July of 2022. According to the arrest warrants:. 49-year-old Isaac Azriel Ross and the others used the prison phone system to...
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