MOULTRIE —
A woman who reported that a man stopped to shout obscenities at her children and then returned to give her the same treatment was among the cases investigated Wednesday by county law enforcement agencies.
April White, of the 2000 block of Old Albany Road, reported to the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office that her children were throwing pine cones in a ditch while cleaning the yard when a man in a red Honda Civic stopped and shouted obscenities at them.
The man left but returned a short time later in a tan Chevrolet Colorado and began using vulgar language toward her. The man left the second time spinning his tires in the driveway.
Arrests
Moultrie Police Department
• Caseita Latreal Jenkins, 35, 2153 Ga. Hwy. 133 N., was charged Wednesday with party to the crime of theft by shoplifting.
She is accused of taking part in a Dec. 4 theft at Wal-Mart, 641 Veterans Parkway S., which reported that she and another woman left the store with a cart filled with merchandise they did not pay for. They left the cart outside the store and drove away in a Chevrolet Trail Blazer.
• Jerome Spence, 42, 707 1/2 Fifth Ave. S.W., was charged Monday with disorderly conduct.
• John Ray Cantrell, 19, 160 Mark Horton Lane, Norman Park, was charged Wednesday with disorderly conduct and failure to yield while turning left.
Cantrell was arrested after he refused to calm down while police were investigating an accident in which he was involved at the intersection of Park Avenue Southeast and Veterans Parkway.
Officers trying to determine what caused the collision between Cantrell’s 1997 Dodge Ram and Marviq Richardson’s 1995 Honda Accord asked Cantrell to lower his voice several times, police said. When after those warnings he began to argue with an officer, raising his voice and yelling, Cantrell was arrested.
The investigation revealed that Cantrell, turning left from Park Avenue onto Veterans Parkway, collided with Richardson, who had turned right onto Veterans Parkway, police said
• Angel Maria Hendrix, 44, 127 Colquitt St., Ellenton, and Shannon Rebecca Weathers, 23, 360 Weathers Road, were each charged Wednesday with theft by shoplifting.
The two women are accused of concealing merchandise in their purses inside Wal-Mart, 641 Veterans Parkway S.
Each had a large Georgia Bulldog purse in a cart, but the merchandise inside them was visible to store employees, police said. The estimated value of the items they had in the purses was $375.
• Joshua Martin Lasseter, 20, 1000-A Holmes Drive, was charged Wednesday with probation violation.
• Victor Jimenez Hernandez, 29, 805 Smith Road, was charged Wednesday with probation violation.
Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office
• David Andrew Bilbo, 43, 2600-2 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, was charged Wednesday with deposit account fraud.
Assaults
Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office
• David Sloan, 300 block Georgia Highway 33 North, reported Wednesday that after an argument with a male relative the man came to his residence and confronted him, starting a fight.
Thefts
Moultrie Police Department
• Tonya Hancock, Doerun, reported Wednesday the theft of a pink bag containing prescription medication and makeup from a 2004 Dodge Durango parked in the 600 block of Veterans Parkway South.
The stolen property was valued at $45.
• Family Dollar, 621 First Ave S.E., reported Wednesday that a woman walked out of the store with $863 in merchandise she did not pay for.
An employee reported that a woman had two shopping carts filled with merchandise said she left her debit card at home and would come back and pay. When the employee at the register began assisting other customers the woman returned and took the merchandise.
Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office
Pamela Plymel, 6100 block Georgia Highway 133 South, reported Wednesday the theft of a Sanyo 50-inch plasma television, Nintendo Wii console and remotes, Wii games, jewelry box and Emerson DVD player with a total value to f$1,751.
• Steven Sutton, 200 block Indian Lake Drive, Norman Park, reported Wednesday that when a man and woman living at his residence moved out they took his Sony television valued at $250.
Property damage
Moultrie Police Department
• Johnny Lee Ward III, Moultrie, reported Wednesday that the 2001 Chevrolet Cavalier he was driving was damaged when the driver of a pickup truck in front of him backed up while they were in an intersection.
Ward told police that while driving on Park Avenue the white truck struck the car, at which time the driver fled driving south on Veterans Parkway.
The car had slight damage and Ward was not injured, police said.
• Regina Reynolds, Doerun, reported Wednesday that three tires were flattened on a 2000 Toyota Avalon and that scratches were made in the car’s paint.
• Nichelle Moore, 200 block First Street Southeast, reported Wednesday that a 2003 Lexus ES300 was scratched extensively, with damage all around as well as the hood and trunk.
Moore found the car damaged when she returned home from work. Damage was estimated at $2,000.
• Rosetta Baker, Moultrie, reported Wednesday that the back window was broken in a 2000 Dodge Caravan.
Baker told police that there was a brick inside the van Nothing apparently was taken.
Other investigations
Moultrie Police Department
• Courtney Loftis, Moultrie, reported Wednesday that her bank car had been used to make several unauthorized transactions.
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