Report: Income hidden from housing authority

Woman charged with theft by deception

A Rome woman was still in jail Tuesday night after she was arrested on a charge of felony theft by deception, according to Floyd County Jail reports. According to the report: Latasha Nicole Fluker, 32, of 10 Whitehead St., is accused of failing to report her income to the Northwest Georgia Housing Authority between January 2011 and January 2012 as required by her lease.

The result was her receiving $ 5,089 in benefits that consisted of reduced rent based on her failure to report her correct income.

Fluker was in jail on $5,700 bond late Tuesday.

Work crew hits gas

line on highway

Police and emergency crews closed a section of Kingston Highway near the Rome bypass on Tuesday afternoon because of a gas leak.

Crews working in the area reportedly struck a gas line, causing a leak at about 5:30 p.m.

Police blocked off Kingston Highway between its intersection with the Rome bypass and Old Freeman Ferry Road.

Atlanta Gas Light officials were on the scene just after 6 p. m., and the leak was capped and traffic able to resume by 8 p.m.

No one was injured, and there were no homes or structures close enough to the leak to call for an evacuation.

Armuchee man arrested in Bartow

An Armuchee man was arrested in Bartow County on Monday night after he allegedly tried to break into a home, according to a news release from the Bartow County Sheriff’s Office.

According to the release:

Deputies were dispatched to a Jones Mill Road residence at about 6: 40 p. m. in response to a burglary in progress.

When they arrived, deputies found Corey Biggers, 24, of Armuchee, lying down on the ground being held at gunpoint by a neighbor who called in the crime.

Deputies discovered that the Good Samaritan neighbor had witnessed Biggers drive slowly by the residence after the homeowners had left and then back into the driveway, leaving his truck running.

The neighbor called the homeowners who said no one should be at their home, and then he confronted Biggers and held him at gunpoint until deputies arrived.

Once the homeowners returned, it was discovered that Biggers had removed a bag of change from the home prior to being detained.

Biggers’ truck was impounded, and he was arrested and has been booked into the Bartow County jail on one count of burglary.