Get more @ CherryTagz.comOfficers suspended in probe By C.C. Wilson III, Rome News-Tribune Staff Writer Seven veteran law enforcement officers in Floyd County were suspended without pay after an internal affairs investigation found that they violated department policy, Rome Police Chief Hubert Smith announced Wednesday afternoon. Smith refused to comment on the specific nature of the investigation or the officers’ involvement, stating that the investigation remains open. Floyd County Sheriff Tommy Rickman and Floyd County Police Chief Jim Free also would not discuss the investigation, which began Sept. 24. Smith said none of the alleged misconduct occurred while the officers were on duty and no officers are under criminal investigation. They could be called as witnesses if a criminal case develops, Smith said. “As soon as we can release information, we will,” he added. According to a news release, the following officers were suspended Tuesday for violating department policy: *Rome police Sgt. Rodney Bailey, an 8-year veteran, 2-week suspension *Rome police Pfc. Bill Devlin, a 13-year veteran, 1-week suspension *Rome police Pfc. Richard Penson, a 10-year veteran, 1-week suspension *Rome police Sgt. Mark Tison, a 10-year veteran, 3-week suspension *Floyd County patrol officer John Blalock, a six-year veteran, 1-week suspension *Floyd County Sheriff’s Deputy Rodney Clemones, a 13-year-veteran, 2-week suspension *Floyd County Sheriff’s Deputy Jimmy Allred, a 13-year-veteran, 1-week suspension The officers were placed on paid leaves of absence Sept. 24, when the investigation began. The lengths of Tuesday’s unpaid suspensions were contingent upon the officers’ degree of involvement in the case and their ranks, Smith said. All three department heads said the officers will return to regular duty after the suspensions are lifted, although some will be transferred to other divisions. Penson, one of two K-9 officers with the Rome-Floyd Metro Drug Task force, was removed from that unit Wednesday, Smith said. Penson will be transferred to the department’s patrol division when he returns to duty and could be reinstated in the future, Smith added. Clemones, a narcotics division officer, will be transferred to the warrants division when he returns, said Rickman, adding that he may never reinstate Clemones to his former position.If you think I was in trouble then....BLALOCK, JOHN R GDC ID: 0000151521 Sorry, this offender's photo is not availablePHYSICAL DESCRIPTION YOB: 1951 RACE: WHITE GENDER: MALE HEIGHT: 0'00'' WEIGHT: 000 EYE COLOR: UNKNOWN HAIR COLOR: UNKNOWN SCARS, MARKS, TATTOOS INCARCERATION DETAILS MAJOR OFFENSE: S/D DEP STIM CNTRF DRUGS MOST RECENT INSTITUTION: MEN'S STATE PRISON MAX POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE: 02/05/1988 TENTATIVE PAROLE MONTH: NOT ALLOWED IN THIS CASE ACTUAL RELEASE DATE: 02/05/1988 CURRENT STATUS: INACTIVE KNOWN ALIASES STATE OF GEORGIA - CURRENT SENTENCES CASE NO: 179883 OFFENSE: NOT AVAILABLE CONVICTION COUNTY: CONVERSION CRIME COMMIT DATE: 01/18/1985 SENTENCE LENGTH: NOT AVAILABLE CASE NO: 179883 OFFENSE: NOT AVAILABLE CONVICTION COUNTY: CONVERSION CRIME COMMIT DATE: 04/08/1981 SENTENCE LENGTH: NOT AVAILABLE CASE NO: 179883 OFFENSE: S/D DEP STIM CNTRF DRUGS CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY CRIME COMMIT DATE: N/A SENTENCE LENGTH: 5 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS CASE NO: 179883 OFFENSE: S/D DEP STIM CNTRF DRUGS CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY CRIME COMMIT DATE: N/A SENTENCE LENGTH: 5 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS CASE NO: 179883 OFFENSE: POSS DEP STIM CNTRF DRUGS CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY CRIME COMMIT DATE: N/A SENTENCE LENGTH: 5 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS CASE NO: 179883 OFFENSE: DRVNG HABTL VIOLATOR CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY CRIME COMMIT DATE: N/A SENTENCE LENGTH: 3 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS STATE OF GEORGIA - PRIOR SENTENCES CASE NO: 150521 OFFENSE: POSS DEP STIM CNTRF DRUGS CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY CRIME COMMIT DATE: N/A SENTENCE LENGTH: 1 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS CASE NO: 150521 OFFENSE: POSS DEP STIM CNTRF DRUGS CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY CRIME COMMIT DATE: N/A SENTENCE LENGTH: 1 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS CASE NO: 150521 OFFENSE: POSS DEP STIM CNTRF DRUGS CONVICTION COUNTY: BIBB COUNTY CRIME COMMIT DATE: N/A SENTENCE LENGTH: 1 YEARS, 0 MONTHS, 0 DAYS STATE OF GEORGIA - INCARCERATION HISTORY INCARCERATION BEGIN INCARCERATION END 05/19/1986 02/05/1988 05/13/1985 09/25/1985 10/14/1982 01/27/1983 But the guys I work with are just as bad.... ROME, GEORGIA – A Floyd County sheriff’s deputy has been placed on admin-istrative leave pending an investigation into “a potential criminal act,” Chief Deputy Tom Caldwell said.Stephanie Pearson Chaffin has been put on leave with pay, pending the outcome of a Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Caldwell said.ROME, GEORGIA – Floyd County Police Chief Bill Shiflett announced today he has fired investigator Dallas Battle for violating standard operating procedures of the department.ROME, GEORGIA - Jason Duke and two other former deputies with the department were accused of lying in a complaint the three filed against a Doraville patrolman John Seigler after he pulled them over in a traffic stop Sept. 19, 2006.Randy Lee Minter and David Eugene King were sentenced to five years with six months to serve. They will not serve their sentences in the Floyd County Jail.ROME, GEORGIA - Crazed Georgia Prosecutor Charging Comic Book Store Over Comic Box. Prosecutor Changes Charges Right Before Going To Trial, A Year And A Half After First ChargesROME, GEORGIA - Patrol officer Bodey Holbert has been fired because he was dishonest during an internal investigation.ROME, GEORGIA - Officer fired, 'will be prosecuted' in rape case. A veteran Rome police officer accused of raping a 16-year-old has been fired and “will be prosecuted,” senior police officials said today. Officer Paul Wiggins Jr., 39, surrendered Thursday night to face charges of rape and violating his oath of office. Drug Task Force Deputy Arrested on Money and Sex charges.ROME, GEORGIA - According to our sources and confirmed by Floyd County police chief Bill Shiftlett, 32 year police veteran Jim Treglown allowed a prison inmate to come to his home on several occasions. Treglown was fired for misuse of inmate labor.Rome officer fired Weldon Walker struggled with Eddie Robert Ware on Sept. 5, leaving Ware paralyzed with a broken neck. Weldon Walker, who has been with the Rome police for more than four years, has been on administrative leave since Sept. 5. Officer Weldon Walker was fired Friday from the Rome Police Department for unspecified violations of department policy during a September arrest that caused a Rome man’s paralysis, police said. A Rome police investigator has been fired for allegedly shoplifting ephedrine from a local convenience store. Detective Kelly Flowers, an eight-year veteran with the Rome Police Department, was “terminated for violation of criminal law and departmental policy,” said Deputy Chief Lonzo Roberson. No criminal charges were filed.TV airs officer’s conduct A news station showed video clips of former officer Eric Stahl watching a striptease at La Tropicana After a video aired on an Atlanta television station Monday night, Rome Police Chief Hubert Smith termed the actions of a former city police officer “inappropriate and unacceptable.” “What the officer did doesn’t look well at all,” the chief said. Smith identified Officer Eric Stahl — who resigned in January after learning Rome police were investigating the matter — as the uniformed officer in the video that aired on Fox 5 WAGA Atlanta watching a striptease at La Tropicana, 13 Chieftain Drive, in late August. A second person in plainclothes also was shown and police have said they didn’t know his identity but that he was not a Rome officer. The man who is heading up the city police investigation said he watched the report and didn’t like the officer’s actions in the video.TIn the video that aired, the uniformed officer and the second man watched two women removing their clothes. At one point the uniformed officer handed his police baton to the second man to “spank” one of the women. The officer subsequently was pulled onstage and the two women pressed against his chest and back, followed by his comment that, “I’m a sandwich, now.” Alan Thomas Glenn, a former officer awaiting sentencing on drug charges. Glenn pleaded guilty to possession of the prescription painkiller Lorcet in federal court in Rome on Friday. Glenn, who resigned from the department in September, admitted both to using methamphetamines in July 2003, and sharing Lorcet tablets with fellow Polk County officers in December 2004, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Dammers.City, county cops collideTavarous Dewayne Samples sits beside his car after it was hit when two police vehicles collided Tuesday on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. W.T. Martin / RN-T A Tuesday afternoon collision between city and county police cars resulted in three damaged vehicles, an officer being cited and sent to the hospital, and the arrest of a Rome man. State Trooper First Class John Everett said Rome officer James Little was traveling east on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard around 3:25 p.m. on Tuesday to meet a constable about counterfeit money. Floyd County patrolman Tim Minter, who was driving west into town, collided with Little’s car as Little turned left onto Stonewall Drive, the trooper added.