Chattooga County, Georgia Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to a James Street, Summerville address recently following reports of an altercation between family members.    When deputies arrived they quickly learned that a woman had assaulted a family member during the course of an argument. 

According to a report from the Sheriff’s Office, the woman became angry when she learned that a family member had planned to lock up her late-mother’s house due to suspicious activity in the neighborhood.    The woman reportedly grabbed a “chopping ax” and threatened a family member who was according to deputies “…grilling and having a couple of beers” in the yard of the residence. 

The woman was screaming, and cursing – and she overturned the grill, in the course of that confrontation, and the woman also reportedly took the family members cell phone; Crystal Dawn Bates, age 38 was arrested and charged with aggravated assault under the family violence act – criminal damage to property – and interfering with an emergency telephone call – and she was booked into the Chattooga County Jail.

(AM1180 Chattooga County Radio)