Man barricaded in Carroll County mobile home identified
Ricky Womack Jr. (Douglas County Sheriff's Office)
CARROLL COUNTY, Ga. - Authorities have identified a wanted man who barricaded himself inside a Carroll County home on Wednesday.
Ricky Womack Jr. was wanted for ramming a stolen vehicle into Douglas County Deputy Payne’s cruiser during a traffic stop along Kings Highway around 1 a.m. Wednesday. According to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Womack then drove the stolen Tahoe into the woods.
Womack got away despite a search by several deputies and a K-9.
Investigators would later learn Womack had stolen a Dodge pickup truck from a mobile home near that scene. That truck was later found in front of a mobile home in the Villa Forest Mobile Home Park off of Highway 61 North in Villa Rica
A SWAT team was brought in after deputies say they learned he was armed with a handgun and refused to come out.
Womack was eventually pulled from the home.
Deputies surround a mobile home in the Villa Forest Mobile Home Park off of Highway 61 North in Villa Rica on Jan. 10, 2024. (FOX 5)
Investigators say the handgun had been reported stolen during a separate incident in Carroll County.
He was booked in Douglas County on charges of aggravated assault, possession of methamphetamine, fleeing, criminal interference with government property, theft by receiving a motor vehicle, theft by receiving stolen property, obstruction, possession of drug related objects and multiple traffic citations.
He also faces charges in Carroll County.
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