Fayette County resident and former Fulton County Police veteran Gerald Copeland has another charge leveled against him involving the assault of a prostitute.

The new charge comes from Union City, where Copeland is alleged to have assaulted a prostitute in late March and dropped her off in a subdivision still under development near the South Fulton Parkway.

Union City Police Public Information Officer George Louth said warrants had been taken out last week on the 48-year-old Copeland for aggravated sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, battery and theft by taking.

Louth said the incident occurred on March 27. He said the woman was found in a partially developed subdivision near South Fulton Parkway and Ga. Highway 92. Louth said Fayette and Union City authorities were in contact subsequent to Copeland’s arrest last month by Fayette County. He said the woman had identified Copeland once Union City Police had located her.

Copeland was arrested late last month in Fayette County on charges of aggravated sexual battery, battery and false imprisonment relating to an incident with a prostitute who had been beaten and dropped in an undeveloped subdivision. The victim was able to describe the suspect and the suspect’s vehicle, and evidence left at the scene also led investigators to Copeland, officials said.

Sheriff’s detectives at the time of Copeland’s arrest were also investigating two similar cases in which prostitutes were picked up in Atlanta, brought to Fayette County and sexually assaulted. In all three cases the victims were beaten and then abandoned in north Fayette County, officials said.