• Christopher Daniel Akins, 20, 1141 Putnam Drive, Dalton, was charged Tuesday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with burglary.
• Johnny Lee Jeffery Mills, 36, 4881 Cleveland Highway, Cohutta, was charged Tuesday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with being a fugitive from justice (probation violation in Utah).
• Justin Aaron Davenport, 17, 410 Vann Circle, Dalton, was charged Tuesday by the Dalton Police Department with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.
• Randell Lee Harris, 47, 4006 S. Dixie Highway, Dalton, was charged Wednesday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with possession of tools for the commission of a crime, trafficking in methamphetamine and possession of meth.
• Michael Seth Taylor, 23, no address given, was charged Wednesday by the Tunnel Hill Police Department with drugs in wrong container, open container in vehicle, DUI, tag light required and vehicle registration violation.
• Hershel Edmond Ridley Jr., 49, 3698 Chatsworth Highway, Dalton, was charged Wednesday by the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office with terroristic threats and acts.
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Sheriff: Murders were ‘crime of passion’
Members of the media surround Whitfield Sheriff Scott Chitwood outside the jail as he gives an update about the hunt for Sonny Neal Friday. Neal is wanted in connection with the deaths of his wife and her grandfather.Matt Hamilton/The Daily Citizen
Two homicides in Dawnville early Thursday morning were a “crime of passion” and the suspect who is still on the loose is “dangerous,” Whitfield County Sheriff Scott Chitwood said at a press conference Friday afternoon.
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