This just in from Cobb Police: Officer Robert New, a Precinct 4 patrol officer charged last week with aggravated assault and criminal solicitation, has resigned. 
Cobb Police said in a release issued at 6:11 p.m. Monday that New’s resignation is effective immediately.
There was no other information provided by Cobb Police, who were conducting what Chief Mike Register said last week was an administrative complaint filed against him.
New remains in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center without bond, and is scheduled to have a bond hearing on July 10.
New was in his second stint serving in East Cobb’s Precinct 4 when he was arrested last week for aggravated assault and simple battery during a sexual encounter with a 44-year-old woman.
Police determined the woman, who said New had slapped her face and choked her, had the mental capacity of a 10-to-14-year-old.
Register said at a press conference last Monday that the department was acting “with the intent to reach a timely decision” about New’s employment status and said he had been placed on administrative leave without pay.
On Wednesday, police filed additional charges against New, of criminal solicitation and child pornography by use of wireless internet, involving a 12-year-old girl.
New started with Cobb Police in Precinct 4 in 2005 and served on the department’s DUI task force before returning to Precinct 4.
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