'Mad Tacker' Blamed for Flattening Tires

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DALTON, Ga. - Robert Holcomb had a pretty sharp grudge against local police, and now he's accused of criminal damage for allegedly throwing nails on the roads in front of the police station and jail for more than six months.



Holcomb, dubbed "The Mad Tacker" by police, is blamed for flattening tires of at least seven sheriff's patrol cars and seven personal vehicles of Whitfield County 911 Center employees.


"Sooner or later he got just about everybody coming and going," said sheriff's Maj. John Gibson.


Holcomb, 35, was arrested after an officer spotted him dumping nails on a street near the county jail.


The officer pulled over Holcomb's 1995 Chevrolet Z71. During a search, authorities found two boxes of galvanized roofing nails, one box of aluminum siding nails and a bowl containing roofing nails.


He was charged with first-degree criminal damage to property, three counts of damaging government property, two counts of first-degree criminal trespass, three counts of littering and 14 counts of interference with government property.


He was being held in jail Monday with a $35,000 bond. It was Holcomb's first arrest, Gibson said.