LaFAYETTE, Ga. – After spending several hours Wednesday trying to straighten out dueling accusations between a Rossville former property owner and one of his former tenants, a judge decided to arrest both of them.
At the end of the hearing in Walker County Magistrate Court, Judge Barrett Whittemore charged Peerless Mill property manager Les Coffey with stealing from Tek-Mak employees, his former tenants at the mill.
Whittemore also charged David Rowan, former president of Tek-Mak, with breaking padlocks on the mill and entering the building after Coffey evicted the company.
Both say they were falsely charged.
“We’ll win this case in jury trial,” Coffey said. “I’m not worried about it.”