A Catoosa County judge said he wouldn’t have allowed a Chattanooga man charged with molesting a teenage girl to be freed on bond if he had known about a similar charge pending in Tennessee.
“Nobody informed me that [Greg Austin] was out on bond on a similar charge in Tennessee,” said Magistrate Judge Vic Wells. “He wouldn’t have gotten a bond from me with a previous charge in Tennessee.”
But Catoosa County Sheriff Phil Summers said Austin’s history, including charges that he allegedly had sex with a 14-year-old girl in Chattanooga six months ago, were given to the judge.
“We did run a criminal history check on him,” Summers said. “And the judge had it in his possession.”
Wells insisted no one told him that Austin was out on a previous bond. The judge said he plans to revoke Austin’s bond today now that he knows about the charges.