Thursday, June 19, 2025–3:00 p.m.
-Floyd County Jail records-

The GBI has arrested two Rome men on multiple charges related to the sale of fentanyl.
According to Floyd County Jail records:
42-year-old Jamar Shantay Finley sold fentanyl to an undercover officer four times this month.
Then, during the execution of a search warrant at Finley’s home on Blacks Bluff Road, more fentanyl, methamphetamine, marijuana, digital scales, and packaging materials were found.
Finley is charged with four counts of the sale of fentanyl and five counts of possession of fentanyl, plus another four counts of possession with the intent to distribute.
He is also charged with four counts of drug trafficking, and single counts of possession of meth, possession of meth with the intent to distribute, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute.
Meanwhile, 36-year-old Rodney Lewis Palmer Jr. was found with 19 grams of fentanyl, 436 grams of marijuana, digital scales, and packaging materials during the execution of a search warrant at his residence on South Elm Street.
He also conspired with Finley to sell fentanyl to an undercover officer.
Palmer is charged with conspiracy to violate Georgia’s Controlled Substances Act, possession of fentanyl, possession with the intent to distribute, felony possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute, and possession of drugs within 1,000 feet of a school.




