Chattanooga rapper Charles Toney, shown in a viral video in December 2018 being punched and kicked in handcuffs by a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office detective, is now jailed in Catoosa County, Georgia.
Toney was arrested around noon Aug. 26 after several detectives responded to a home on Colony Circle in Fort Oglethorpe in response to a narcotics complaint, according to a Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office incident report. A Black woman, later identified as 19-year-old Arione Matthews, answered the door to detectives when they arrived, the report stated. The detectives introduced themselves and, according to the report, they could smell marijuana coming from inside the residence and asked Matthews to step outside of the home for questioning.
Matthews told officers the home belonged to her mother, April Parks, and that Parks and her fiance, Toney, lived at the residence with three children. She said she was there to babysit two of the children.
Officers asked where Parks was, to which Matthews responded that she was at court with Toney. At this point, law enforcement requested permission to search the residence. Matthews said she could not consent because it was not her home.