Rome man charged with aggravated assault
A Rome man is accused of threatening to kill a woman on Aug. 4 on East Second Avenue, reports stated.
According to Floyd County Jail reports: Travalyer Derenso Watkins, 36, of 475 Powell Road, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with felonies for aggravated assault, terroristic threats, cruelty to children and a parole violation.
Watkins is accused of threatening to kill a 35-year old woman with a knife and a handgun in front of a teenager. Watkins actually had a knife in his possession at the time and threatened to go get a handgun to carry out the act.
Watkins was being held in the Floyd County Jail without bond Wednesday.
Doug Walker, associate editor
Task force raid on Kingston Avenue results in 3 arrests
The Rome- Floyd Metro Task Force arrested three people on felony drug charges Wednesday after executing a search warrant at a commercial building on Kingston Avenue.
According to Floyd County Jail records: The raid took place just before 11 a. m. at 718 Kingston Ave. and all three suspects were in jail without bond Wednesday night.
Nick Alan Adams, 40, of 141 Malone Drive, was found with methamphetamine in his safe.
Officers also found scales containing methamphetamine residue, needles and a glass pipe and Adams had Xanax and Lortab pills in a small bag in his
pocket. He is facing felony charges of possession of meth, intent to distribute meth and two counts of possession of a Schedule IV controlled substance.
Adams also is charged with the misdemeanors pills not kept in the original container and possession of drugrelated objects.
Andrew Kyle Parris, 22, of 37 Ridgeview Drive in Silver Creek, and Heather Lee Dawn Hood, 19, of 743 Burnett Ferry Road, also were arrested.
Parris and Hood are each facing a felony possession of meth charge and misdemeanor possession of drug- related objects. Diane Wagner, staff writer
Report: Man robbed by 3 teens
A man had his cellphone, charger and headphones taken from him at gunpoint on Ross Street, near its intersection with Dwinnell Street. According to Rome police reports: The man reported the Sunday afternoon incident to police on Monday. Around 5 p. m. Sunday, the man was walking on Ross Street when three teenagers he knows came up behind him. One of them aimed a semi- automatic handgun at him while the other two snagged the electronics, which were valued at $120.
The teens then took off running. He told police they hang out around Copeland Street. This was not the first time the man has been robbed at gunpoint.
Man sells woman’s vehicle to junkyard without her knowing
A woman who had been trying to get the right deal on selling her brokendown car to a junkyard was beat to the punch by a random man when he sold her vehicle to Summerville Junk Yard Tuesday. According to Rome police reports: The woman’s 2003 Dodge Neon had been left at Crowe’s Upholstery at 512 W. 12th St. on Sunday after it broke down.
It was still there when she came back to get some items from it Tuesday morning.
She had been trying to find a junk yard to give her at least $100 for it.
When she came back again Tuesday, the Neon was gone, and she was told by employees at the business it was taken by Summerville Junk Yard, out of Cedartown.
She found out that a man had sold them her car after providing them with a bill of sale.
From the information given to the junk yard, she called a man who said it was likely his brother who sold her car. He said his brother, who lives in Rome, likely used his information.
He told her would come to Rome and would pay her the $ 100, but he never showed Tuesday.
Man takes woman’s medication after giving her a ride
A man drove off from the Circle K on North Broad Street with a woman’s pain pills that he had just taken her to pick up. According to Rome police reports: The woman was on her way to her pharmacy Monday to pick up the hydrocodone pills — she recently had a knee replacement — when her vehicle broke down. The man, who she described as the “Mr. Fix-it” of North Rome, came to give her a ride and fix her vehicle.
He took her to her pharmacy in his own car, and then they went to the gas station at 910 N. Broad St. so she could put some gas in his tank. As she was walking back to his car, he sped off, with the 60 pain pills inside.
11th Street home burglarized
A refrigerator, a stove and a miter saw were taken from a West 11th Street home sometime between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. According to Rome police reports: A man who mows the property called the homeowner Tuesday morning and said a back window had been pushed in. The homeowner had been readying the home to be sold but wasn’t finished yet, so some items remained. The items taken were valued at $3,300. The items were too big to take out a backdoor, and scrape marks were found on the stoop at the front of the home.