News

Two deputies were sent to the hospital after an inmate attacked them with a homemade weapon at Polk County Jail.
CEDARTOWN, Ga. - Police in Polk County are warning drivers who would flee from being pulled over for a traffic stop that they will end up with four flat tires. Vincent Keith Sweeting, 41, learned ...
CEDARTOWN, Ga. — A man who was already in jail has been charged with the murder of a missing mother who hasn’t been seen since late February. Monisha Sharae Leath, 32, was last seen on ...
POLK COUNTY, Ga. — A detention officer with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office was arrested Tuesday after an investigation. According to the sheriff’s office, Joshua Michael Pollard, 22, of ...
Taylor McGhee, 31, of Cedartown, was booked into the Polk County jail on charges of possession of methamphetamine and possession of tools for the commission of a crime.
Two Polk County Jail staff members were sent to the hospital on Saturday after an inmate stabbed them, according to the ...
CEDARTOWN, Ga. — Two Polk County Jail officers were hospitalized Saturday after being stabbed multiple times by an inmate wielding a homemade weapon, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
POLK COUNTY, Ga. — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is looking into an incident where a man was shot and an officer was hurt in Polk County Monday. The GBI said Polk County Police officers ...
A Polk County man was shot by police and suffered non-life-threatening injuries during a wild four-wheeler chase through the woods near Cedartown, the GBI said.
Sheriff's deputies in Georgia rushed into action when a jail break-in was perpetrated by a "white female" suspect: a duck.
Polk County Jail officers sustained multiple stab wounds after an inmate used a homemade weapon during a confrontation in his ...