Update: Taylorsville Mayor out on Bond
Cary Wayne Rhodes faces child-sex charges related to an online investigation.
According to The Daily Citizen in Dalton, Rhodes posted a $50,000 bond and was released from the Murray County Jail on Wednesday. It is not known when Rhodes' next court date will be. Taylorsville Mayor Cary Wayne Rhodes, 57, was arrested Thursday in an online sting operation involving the FBI and the Northwest Georgia Safe Child Task Force. Rhodes attempted to meet with a child he met online to have sex, said Brian Lamkin, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Atlanta field office. But there was no child. Instead, FBI agents and other task force members met Rhodes in Chatsworth and arrested the self-employed engineer. Undercover agents had tracked Rhodes' actions online and set up the meeting that resulted in his arrest, Lamkin said. …
Bill Thrasher
12:10 pm on Monday, October 31, 2011
you are exactly right Mike. He has not been convicted yet and entrapment has yet to be alleged or proved. Let's presume for a moment that entrapment is in play. Other than conviction and a prison sentence, how does that change the big picture to you? more ›