MOULTRIE — A Berlin business was burglarized Thursday night.

James Keith Taylor, of Pavo, told deputies Friday morning that he arrived at his business, Big Kustom Signs and Designs, 5880 Ga. Highway 133 South, and found the side door on the north end of the building damaged.

Missing were 35 Windbreaker jackets, 25 black sweatshirts, 100 ball caps, 135 T-shirts and a cordless drill. The clothing was part of an order he was to put designs on, he said.



Other thefts

Sheriff’s Office

• David Cecil Harrell, 1200 block Kendallwood Church Road, reported a semi-automatic pistol, two chainsaws and a book of checks had gone missing at his residence between Dec. 21 and Dec. 31. He gave deputies the name of a suspect.

• Roberto Delao, 1900 block Sardis Church Road, reported Saturday that he was in the shower when he heard his back door open. He came out to see what was going on and saw two white males in gray hooded sweatshirts run out the back door. Missing were a Nintendo Wii and a PlayStation 2 game consoles and about 15 games.

• A burglary was reported Friday at the residence of Bobby Melton, 500 block Cox Dairy Road, by his sister, Tonya Souther. Souther said the front door was pried open and a window next to it was broken out; the door on the south side of the residence was standing wide open. She said a lot of her brother's tools and two 27-inch TV sets were missing, but she didn't know what else might have been taken.



Moultrie Police

• Seaborn Folsom, Moultrie, reported Sunday the theft of a wallet containing $1,900 that he lost in the 700 block of North Main Street.

• Tywana Ponder, 500 block 27th Street Southeast, reported Friday the theft of a Sony 47-inch television in a burglary of her residence.

• Lakerrian Thomas, 600 block 26th Avenue Southeast, reported Friday the theft of a purse containing $21, driver’s license, debit and Social Security cards.



Other arrests

Sheriff's Office

• Patrick Neil Kitchens 35, 150 Gopher Ridge Lane, was charged Saturday with open container in a vehicle.

• Mario Alberto Cardova, 21, 1161 Coventry Circle, was charged Sunday with DUI, improper backing, failure to drive in a single lane and driving without a license.

• Raheem Lafonte Sims, 19, 138 Ridgewood Lane, was charged Sunday with burglary.

• Jennifer Amanda Pope, 29, 335 E. Broad St., Norman Park, was charged with driving on a suspended license and failure to maintain lane.

• Shontonio Little, 19, 145 Yates Lane, was arrested Sunday in connection with a Berrien County burglary.

• Jeffery Brian Kitchens, 38, 151 Gopher Ridge Lane, was charged Saturday with faillure to drive in a single lane and open container in vehicle.

Norman Park Police

• Cory Lamar Barnhill, 33, of Gadsden, Ala., was charged Saturday with probation violation.



Moultrie Police

• James Elwood Wright, 43, of 28-A First St. S.E., was charged Sunday with vagrancy and public drunk.

• Tracy Michelle Brown, 48, 614 Third St. S.E., was charged Jan. 3 with theft by deception.

• Marcos Audel Delacruz, 22, of 1212 12th Ave. S.W., was charged Sunday with no driver's license, defective equipment and a children's seat belt violation.

• Tiarra Lacole Fulton, 19, of Sylvester, was charged Sunday with disorderly conduct.

• Charles Wesley McKinnie, 68, of Quitman, was charged Friday with DUI and failure to obey a stop sign.

• Bayron Alvaro Ramirez-Bravo, 23, of Montgomery, Ala., was charged Saturday with driving without a license, a child restraint violation, no insurance and defective equipment.

• Heather Renea Simmons, 30, 205 Overlook Drive, was charged Saturday with shoplifting.

She is accused of concealing merchandise valued at $47 in her purse and trying to exit Walmart, 641 Veterans Parkway S., without paying for it.

• Chalaka Tamara Young, 38, 1022 Ninth Ave. S.E., was charged Sunday with theft by shoplifting.

She is accused of loading a Walmart shopping cart with merchandise and exiting the store without paying.

• Anthony Jack Hood, 22, 3353 Tallokas Road, was charged Sunday with driving under the influence.

• Ronnie Lee Wright, 58, 312 Third St. S.W., was charged Sunday with probation violation.

• David Wayne Lewis, 47, 135 Dennis Powell Lane, was charged Monday with driving on suspended tag and contempt of court.

• Arthur C. Horne, 51, 503 Second Ave. N.W., was charged Sunday with probation violation.

• Elia Martinez-Alonso, 23, 1195 Overlook Drive, was charged Sunday with no driver’s license, child safety seat violation and no brake light.

• Dana Spradley, 33, 1013 Sixth Ave. S.E., was charged Sunday with criminal damage to property.

Spradley was arrested after Andrea Ware, 24, reported that Spradley kicked her 1998 Chevrolet Venture during an argument.



Property damage

Moultrie Police

• An alarm alert in the early morning hours on Monday led police to discover an attempted theft at American Pawn, 1235 First Avenue Southeast.

An officer was dispatched to the business at 130 a.m., and when a key holder for the business arrived the electricity was not working in the building.

During a check of the back of the building police found that power switches for the building had been turned off and the motion sensor wire for the alarm had been cut.

• Melissa McMurphy, Moultrie, reported Sunday that a 2003 Chevrolet truck was hit by another vehicle in the 1000 block of South Main Street.

Sheriff's Office

• Patsy L. Campbell, 800 block McElroy Road, told deputies Saturday that someone knocked her mailbox off its post. She said it was the second time in a week.

• John Strickland, 5000 block Funston-Sale City Road, Sale City, reported Sunday afternoon that the window of his 2000 Freightliner wrecker was shattered between Saturday evening and the time of the report. The tinted window film was all that held the glass together when the deputy examined it.



Battery

Sheriff's Office

• A deputy was dispatched to Colquitt Regional Medical Center Monday, where he met with Kaylon Sanders, 1900 block Kendallwood Church Road. Sanders said she and a female relative were in an argument at her residence. Sanders said she went to her room to gather some things to leave but the other woman followed her to continue the argument. The incident quickly became physical, and during the scuffle the other woman kicked her in the mouth. She said as soon as they saw blood, both women stopped fighting.

The deputy went to Sanders' residence, where he met with a man who said the relative had left the house. The man said Sanders' relative had also suffered minor injuries in the scuffle.

• Tommy Barfield, 1300 block Ga. Highway 133 South, told a deputy Friday that he was in a verbal argument with a man he knows and it turned physical. The other man hit him several times in the head and bit him around the rear of the neck, he said.



Moultrie Police

• Katease Scott, 800 block Fourth Street Northwest, reported Sunday that a male acquaintance punched her in the face and head during an argument.

Scott had bruises and scratches on her face and a scratch on her right elbow, police said.

• Tracey Harris, Moultrie, reported Saturday that someone shot him in the back with a BB gun at about 8:35 p.m. as he was walking near the intersection of Third Street and Fourth Avenue Northwest.

• Christopher Hightower, 200 block 11th Avenue Southeast, reported Friday that a male acquaintance assaulted him during an argument over a computer.

Hightower had a cut lip and his shirt was stretched, police said. He did not wish to press charges and no arrest was made.

• Brenda Shipp, Moultrie, reported Friday that a female acqutaintance bit her on the lip during an argument.

Shipp told police that the woman “just hauled off and bit her” during a verbal altercation at about 4:20 p.m. in the 400 block of Second Street Northwest.  She told police that she did not think she gave the woman any reason to bite here.

Shipp was treated by Colquitt County Emergency Medical Services personnel, police said. Warrants will be taken for the woman, who was not there when police arrived.

• Demetrius Dixon, Moultrie, reported Friday that a male acquaintance choked and hit him in the face during an incident at 11:16 a.m. in the 200 block of Sixth Street Southeast.

Dixon told police that the man approached him in a parking lot and asked about money Dixon owed to one of his relatives, and attacked him when Dixon told him it was not his business.