Published 11:45 am Thursday, August 6, 2026 SPARTA, Ga. — Tracy Wheeler, a Republican seeking the District 26 Ga. Senate seat in the Nov. 3 general election, and her husband, have been arrested on separate aggravated assault charges, The Union-Recorder has learned. The arrests were made Wednesday afternoon at the Hancock County Courthouse in Sparta, according to Hancock County Sheriff’s Office Chief Investigator Thomas Resha. The couple also lives in Hancock County. The investigator said Tracy Wheeler was arrested on two counts of aggravated assault. Her husband, Troy, was arrested on one count of aggravated assault. The couple was taken into custody at the courthouse. The charges stem from separate incidents. Following their arrests, they were taken to the Hancock County Jail in Sparta, where they were booked on the charges, fingerprinted and photographed. The two aggravated assault charges against Tracy Wheeler stem from separate incidents that reportedly happened in late June and early July at Amigo’s Cove restaurant on Lake Sinclair Drive in Hancock County, Resha told the newspaper via a phone interview. In the June 28 incident, Tracy Wheeler is accused of brandishing a handgun at employees at the restaurant. Records of the incidents involving the political candidate, as well as an unrelated incident reportedly involving Troy Wheeler, were not immediately available from the sheriff’s office. Resha said no one was injured in either of the three aggravated assault…
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