His Own Department Sent Another Agency To Pull Over His Patrol Car

Officer Travis Weldon had been with Griffin PD for one year. He was hired under the POST mandate program, placing him under a two-year service contract with the department. During the hiring process, Weldon disclosed two prior impaired driving incidents, that alcohol had affected his personal life and job, and that others had told him he had a drinking problem. His POST certification was already on probation for a prior DUI arrest when Griffin gave him a badge, a gun, and a marked patrol car. On the night of December 23, 2025, Weldon got blackout drunk. According to arrest warrant affidavits, his wife found bruising on the face and hips of her non-verbal daughter and took the child to Upson Regional Medical Center. Weldon told investigators he blacks out when he drinks rum and could not rule out that he had harmed the child. The next morning he sipped what was left of a rum and coke, put on his uniform, drove his marked patrol car to Griffin PD headquarters, sat in the parking lot without talking to anyone, and left. His department tracked the vehicle's GPS and called Zebulon PD to stop it. Weldon was arrested on December 24, 2025. He bonded out. Five days later he was arrested again for aggravated stalking after transferring his wife's phone calls to his own number in violation of a no-contact order. When deputies and Thomaston police came to arrest him a second time on January 3, 2026, he hid in the attic. Griffin PD fired him two days after his first arrest. The reason listed: moral turpitude and violation of his oath of office.