The owner of a local gold and diamonds store has been arrested and charged with passing worthless checks.
Hamilton County issued a warrant for Rick Davis’ arrest on Jan. 14. He was arrested Tuesday.
This is not the first time Davis, 70, has had run-ins with the law. He was also indicted by a grand jury in 2024 on six felony counts of theft that allegedly occurred between December 2023 and May 2024. Four of the counts list the property stolen as valued between $10,000 and $60,000. He is scheduled to appear in front of Judge Amanda Dunn on Feb. 6 in association with the indictment.
His extensive legal history also includes a connection to the 1997 deaths of Sean and Donny Goetcheus, and he was sued in 2013 by a Lookout Mountain, Georgia, woman who accused him of illegally passing along a $20,000 ring that was stolen from her home in a burglary.
Davis bailed out of the Hamilton County Jail before Wednesday afternoon but is set to appear on March 17.