TOBIN INVESTIGATION STILL ON SAYS D.A. BALLARD

GRIFFIN JUDICIAL CIRCUIT DISTRICT ATTORNEY SCOTT BALLARD TOLD ZOOM NEWS FRIDAY—HE IS CONTINUING TO WORK ON THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORT OF THE OFFICER PHLLIP TOBIN CASE—BUT HE DECLINED TO SET A TIME-TABLE ON WHEN IT MIGHT BE COMPLETED.

THERE WERE OVER 75 CITIZEN COMPLAINTS FILED AGAINST TOBIN'S POLICING METHODS AND THE THOMASTON POLICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATOR HAS BEEN ON PAID ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE FOR OVER A YEAR.

THE GBI CONDUCTED AN INVESTIGATION THEN TURNED ITS FINDINGS OVER TO THE D.A.

DISTRICT ATTORNEY BALLARD TOLD US—WITH SUCH A HIGH NUMBER OF DOCUMENTS THAT MUST BE REVIEWED IT HAS BEEN TIME  CONSUMING.

HE WENT ON THE SAY—THIS IS REALLY NOT HIS  PURVIEW —BUT HE AGREED TO TAKE ON THIS PHASE OF THE TOBIN CASE BECAUSE THE GBI HAS BEEN SADDLED WITH SO MANY OTHER INVESTIGATIONS—SO  HE VOLUNTEERED TO HELP THEM OUT.

THREE CITIZENS WHO HAD ENCOUNTERS WITH TOBIN WERE INDICTED BY THE UPSON COUNTY GRAND JURY—AFTER THE GBI PRESENTED EVIDENCE . ACCORDING TO THE INDICTMENTS-- BETTY SNIPES FOR POKING HER FINGER IN TOBINS FACE AND HER DAUGHTER TAMMY DAWSON FOR JUMPING ON HIS BACK.

CONVICTED DRUG DEALER KELSEY ROCKEMORE FOR ALLEGEDLY TRYING TO KICK TOBIN WHEN THE OFFICER RESPONDED TO A CALL AT HANDY MART ON EAST WALKER—A COMPLAINT THAT ROCKEMORE WAS TRYING TO DEAL DRUGS.

ROCKEMORE IS SUEING THE CITY OF THOMASTON FOR A MILLION DOLLARS CLAIMING HE WAS TASERED WITHOUT CAUSE.