On Wednesday, June 4, 2025, at approximately 1:00 pm, two agents with Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force attempted to stop a motorcycle north of Trion near Ridgeway Road. The motorcycle refused to stop, and the pursuit continued eventually making its way to Wade Drive off Mahan Road.

Deputies were heading towards the chase but didn’t arrive on scene until the motorcycle was stopped off Wade Drive and Agents were attempting to arrest the driver.

The first deputy arrived and was able to help get the driver restrained. The second deputy arrived several minutes after the first.

Deputies transported the driver to the jail but then directly to the local emergency department. Both deputies reported to supervisors that they had seen what they believed to be excessive force used by one of the Drug Task Force agents after the suspect was in handcuffs.

Investigators spoke with the deputies and reviewed their reports. As a result of speaking with them, reviewing the reports, gathering other information related to this incident and speaking with the agent’s employer, the GBI Region One Office in Calhoun was contacted and requested to investigate this incident.​

On Wednesday, June 18, 2025, GBI agents secured an arrest warrant for Chris Wooten, formerly employed by the Trion Police Department and formerly attached to the LMJC Drug Task Force.

Wooten was charged with Aggravated Battery (Felony) and Violation of Oath of Office (Felony).

On the same day he was booked into the Chattooga County Jail and released on a $20,000 bond issued by the Superior Court.​

“Law Enforcement officers are required to use force in the performance of their sworn duties. Typically, the use of physical force is the last option used to arrest an individual. Law Enforcement officers are trained to use only the reasonable amount of force necessary to effectuate an arrest. The public places trust in law enforcement to hold to these standards. The issues concerning this incident are outside of those standards, intolerable and should never happen. I thank my deputies for reporting what they saw, as they are required to do. I also thank Trion Police Chief David Gilleland, as well as the Commander and Deputy Commander of the Drug Task Force for their cooperation and desire to make sure this situation was handled appropriately.” –Sheriff Mark A. Schrader