MOULTRIE — A driver with a suspended license determined to avoid a trip to jail Tuesday drove away from a traffic stop, despite an officer jolting him with a Taser as he sped away, Moultrie Police Department reports said.

An officer stopped the driver of a 2000 Ford Explorer at 10:22 a.m. near the intersection of First Street and Fifth Avenue Northwest because he was not wearing a seat belt properly, agency reports said. A check on the car revealed that the vehicle’s registration was suspended.

The man, who told the officer he had the seat belt around his arm, also had a suspended license, police reports said.

When the officer ordered him out of the vehicle the driver tried to start the vehicle, the reports said. The officer tried to open the door, which was locked, and grabbed the driver’s shirt through the open window.

When the man began to resist and got the vehicle started the officer fired the Taser, with both probes attaching in the driver’s rib area.

The man continued driving with the wires attached, and the officer turned the unit off for safety reasons as the driver approached other vehicles in the parking lot.

Officers searched for the vehicle but were unable to locate it.

When found, the driver will face charges of driving while license suspended or revoked, fleeing or attempting to elude an officer, duty to obey, driving with suspended or revoked registration and safety belt violation.



Arrests

Moultrie Police Department

• Dalton Ray Jones, 19, 717 1/2 Hillcrest Ave., was charged Tuesday with probation violation and contempt of court

• Fidencio Zuniga Moreno, 56, Lakeland, was charged Monday with no license and child safety seat violation.

Moreno was stopped after an officer saw him driving with a small child standing up in a 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee, police reports said.

• James Cleveland Vinson, 58, 2806 Second St. N.W., was charged Tuesday with probation violation.

• Brandon Thomas Truett, 31, 873 Tillman Road, was charged Tuesday with driving with suspended license and defective equipment.

• Evony Denay Richardson, 17, 618 Fourth Court N.W. Apt. A, was charged Tuesday with criminal trespass (bench warrant).

Richardson was arrested after an officer responding to a report of shots fired at 11:15 p.m. near Third Street Southeast and Hillcrest Avenue saw her with a group of people.

When officers called in Richardson’s name they were told that there was a warrant for her arrest, police reports said.

• Timothy Lynn Summerlin, 48, 522 Indian Lake Drive, was charged Wednesday with driving with suspended license and possession of marijuana.



Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office

• Raiford Allen Hardy, 70, 396 Hardy Road, was charged Tuesday with loitering or prowling.

• Sabrina Christie Roberts, 29, 177 Indian Lake Drive Lot 7, Norman Park, was charged Tuesday with deposit account fraud.

• Michael Lamar Kilgore, 36, 639 Rosencrantz Road, was charged Tuesday with two counts of simple battery and obstruction of an emergency telephone call.



Assaults

Moultrie Police Department

• Sonya Tatum, Moultrie, reported Tuesday that she was attacked by a female acquaintance.

The officer, who saw a disturbance at about 2:42 p.m. in the 300 block of Second Street Northwest, also spoke with Jeona Williams. Williams told the officer that she and Tatum had fought over a man.

Tatum reported that she and the man have a baby together.

Neither woman wished to prosecute, police reports said.



Thefts

Moultrie Police Department

• Melissa Kilgore, 500 block Fifth Avenue Southeast, reported Tuesday that a female relative stole about 58 Percocet pills.

Kilgore told the officer that the woman also stole Vicodin from another person’s bedroom.

The total value of the stolen medication was $100.

• Softland Wood Recycling, 300 block Eighth Street Northeast, reported Monday the theft of a Miller welder valued at $3,000.



Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office

• Felicia and Jimme Ponder, 1800 block Old Albany Road, Doerun, reported Tuesday the theft of Colquitt County High School men’s and women’s class rings, women’s wedding ring, and miscellaneous earrings and necklaces.

• Maria Buena, 100 block Dogwood Drive, reported Tuesday the theft of miscellaneous clothes, two window air conditioners, four stove top eyes, a charcoal drill, scissor jack and refrigerator motor.

The property had a reported total value of $1,940.

• Marcella Wood, 1500 block J.D. Herndon Road, reported Tuesday the theft of a laptop computer valued at $1,000.

Wood told the officer that a window had been broken on the back door of her residence.



Property damage

Moultrie Police Department

• Ann Mercer, Moultrie, reported Tuesday three units were broken into at Sunset Storage, 104 Sunset Circle.

Plates had been cut on all three units and the property rifled through, police reports said. Mercer was not sure if anything had been taken.



Other

Moultrie Police Department

• Shonetta Wingfield, 1500 block Fourth Avenue Northeast, reported Tuesday that a male acquaintance threatened to shoot her during a long period of harassment.

An officer who responded heard the man make another type of threat when he called and Wingfield turned on the speaker on the phone.

Officers searched for the man, who reportedly was driving a blue Mercury or Ford vehicle after neighbors reported he was in the area, police reports said. Efforts to find him were unsuccessful.



Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office

• Alice Smith, Conyers, reported Tuesday that a shed was entered in the 5800 block of U.S. Highway 319 North, Norman Park.

Smith told the officer that nothing appeared to be missing.