Tax Commissioner arrested on felony drug charges
Featured Stories June 7, 2023
LUMPKIN COUNTY, Ga. – The Lumpkin County Tax Commissioner, Michael David Young, 57, was arrested yesterday on felony drug charges after he turned himself into the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was requested by the Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office to ‘investigate allegations that Young was utilizing the influence of his office to obtain illegal drugs’.
Young is also a local pastor and ordained minister in Lumpkin County.
FYN also received a tip regarding the alleged process in exactly how Commissioner Young was able to utilize his office in order to obtain these illegal drugs.
We have reached out to Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard for more information regarding the above statement.
Although the GBI stated they were unable to establish the use of his office to obtain the drugs, the GBI did establish that Young was illegally obtaining and using prescription pills.
Young was given until yesterday to turn himself in to the Sheriff’s Office, where he was then booked and charged with possession of schedule II-controlled substance, use of communication facility to commit a felony and conspiracy to purchase controlled substances.
He has since been released on bond and awaiting trial which will be handled by the Enotah Judicial Circuit upon competition of the case.
Dahlonega man faces multiple drug charges
News December 2, 2020
LUMPKIN COUNTY, Ga. — Jacob Waltzer,27, of Dahlonega faces multiple drug charges as well as well as theft by taking, fleeing, attempting to elude officers, and escape after he led Lumpkin County Sheriff’s Office deputies on a chase through city streets and the University of North Georgia campus on Nov. 23.
According to the incident report, Deputy Corey Bailey spotted a black pickup truck with no license plate on North Grove Street and attempted a traffic stop. The driver refused to stop and eventually turned into the UNG campus at a high rate of speed.
The deputy said he observed pedestrians on both sidewalks running to get out of the way. The chase led back onto Morrison Moore Parkway then onto Auraria Road where the driver struck an embankment and came to a stop.
Waltzer was taken into custody but while deputies were searching the vehicle, he disappeared. A UNG reported seeing him on Morrison Moore and he was taken into custody a second time and transported to the Lumpkin County Detention Center.
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