A Dalton man arrested last week on drug charges and also picked up on a 2006 warrant for aggravated assault and armed robbery likely won’t face court for the more serious crimes, officials said.
District Attorney Bert Poston said Frank J. Parker, 35, pleaded guilty to possession of hydrocodone, loitering and obstruction of a law enforcement officer on Friday in Whitfield County Superior Court after being arrested by the Dalton Police Department. He received three years’ probation before Judge Cindy Morris.
“We agreed to release him on the older charges on his own recognizance pending further review of the case,” Poston said. “It appears that sometime after 2006, but before the statute of limitations expired in 2010, Parker was arrested in the state of Kentucky. At that time we declined extradition because we were unable to locate the alleged victim and could not prosecute the case without the victim.”
According to police reports, Parker was wanted in connection with beating up a man and woman in 2006 after he and three other men he was with were allegedly involved in selling cocaine to the couple. The couple and the men accused each other of stealing from the other.
According to police reports, the couple was covered in blood and had head injuries, which they claimed were from being pistol whipped and beaten up. The woman claimed about $40 from her purse was taken.
“No final decision has been made, but it appears likely that under these circumstances we will be barred for prosecuting him now, based on the statute of limitations having expired,” Poston said.
Shortly after getting out of jail Friday, Parker said he was happy to be a free man and thanked God, his family and the district attorney.
“I’m not guilty (of the 2006 charges),” he said. “I’m innocent. If I was guilty, they would have never let me out.”
Parker said the only reason police officers nabbed him for the alleged crimes was because they wanted someone to pin them on, and he was available. Police department spokesman Bruce Frazier said that’s ludicrous and pointed to incident reports in which witnesses identified Parker in a lineup as the one who committed the crimes.
Parker’s sister, Yolanda Washington, said she was upset the 2006 charges were surfacing again now when her brother had been arrested twice before and the police department declined at the time to extradite him.
“They had two opportunities to come and get him,” she said. “They didn’t want to do it because they didn’t have enough evidence.”
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