A Cedartown High School student has accused another student of sexual assault and rape.

According to Polk County police reports:

The rape and assault were reported to have occurred on Friday, Dec. 16, in a storage room at Cedartown High School.

The allegations were made known to authorities on Sunday, Dec. 18, after the alleged victim described the incident to an adult.

This incident is currently under investigation by the Polk County Police Department.

Dr. Darrell Sorrells, Polk County School Superintendent, said his office did not have enough details at this time to make a comment.

Battery

Isaac Mario Nicholson of 193 Jones Washington Road, Aragon was arrested on Dec. 20 and charged with battery and obstruction of officers.

According to a Polk County Police report, officers responded to a 911 call on Wyatt Road where the vehicle Dana Mae Cook was riding in had ran out of gas. The report states she went to a nearby house and asked brothers Byron and Roby Duggar if she could use the phone. The Duggars offered to take her to get gas and Cook got into their car.

The report states that after Cook got in the car, Nicholson walked into the yard saying Cook was his girlfriend and that he needed to get something from her. At that time, Cook asked the Duggars for a telephone to call someone to come get her. The report says one of the brothers handed her a cell phone and she called 911, telling the operator “help he’s beating me.” The report says that Nicholson then reached through the car window and punched Cook in the face before the brothers separated them and told Nicholson to leave the property. Nicholson got into the car of an unidentified driver and left the scene.

Nicholson was later arrested at a Jones Washington Road address. He was taken to the Polk County police department for booking and the Polk County Jail for confinement.

Terroristic threats and acts

Johnny Darren Hutcheson was arrested Dec. 19 and charged with terroristic threats and acts, simple battery, and obstruction of officers.

According to Polk County Jail records and county police reports, police were called to 2119 Johnson Lake Road for a man making terroristic threats. Upon arriving at the scene, Officer Mark Sparks met Hutcheson at the front door steps of the home. Hutcheson was carrying a frying pan full of some type of combustible liquid. Reports state that Hutcheson threw the liquid onto a small fire that was burning near the front steps of the home and a blaze ignited. Then Sparks told Hutcheson to move away from the fire and put the frying pan down.

Reports say that Velma Lynn Vinson then pulled up into the yard and walked over to Hutcheson and Officer Sparks. She identified herself as the complainant who had called the police for threats. Another officer arrived for backup.

Reports state that Hutcheson was uncooperative when the officers requested to search him for weapons and that he screamed at the officers. The officers restrained and arrested Hutcheson.

After Hutcheson was restrained, the report states that the officers interviewed Vinson, who reported that Hutcheson punched and threatened her earlier and that he had threatened to burn the house down.

Hutcheson was taken to the Polk County Police Department for booking and the Polk County Jail for confinement.

(Editors note: The above is public record and was taken from the reports of the Cedartown Police Department and Polk County Police Department, as well as information obtained from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Polk County Jail.)