MOULTRIE — This article has been corrected from its original form.

A Thursday dispute over a utility bill among two women and a man started with heated text messages and ended with two of them being pepper sprayed and all three in jail.

An officer responding at 6:15 p.m. to a report of an assault at Enmark, 915 First Ave. S.E., found Dennis James Palmore, 24, and Regina Matesa Williams, 40, washing their faces at a water spigot.

Latoya Ryles, 24, who was working inside a booth at the time of the incident, told police that Palmore “had words with her” and tried to reach inside the window to grab her and that Williams also reached inside the window. When Palmore reached inside a second time, she reported, she sprayed both him and Williams with the pepper spray.

Ryles and Williams both showed police text messages that reports described as “nasty” involving a dispute over payment of a utility bill for a residence in the 900 block of First Avenue Southeast.

Palmore is Williams' son, police said, and he and Ryles have a child together. Ryles told police she is four months pregnant and that Palmore is the father.

Surveillance video showed Williams approach the window at the business and get angry, waving her arms, police said. Palmore also approached the window and spoke with Ryles and reached inside the booth twice, police said; the second time he grabbed the keyboard of the register.

At that time, the reports said, Williams pushed Palmore away from the window and a short time later Ryles pulled out a can of pepper spray and sprayed Williams and Palmore before calling 911. Williams and Palmore went to the water spigot and stayed there until police arrived.

Palmore was charged with simple assault (family violence) and Ryles was charged with two counts of simple assault, police said, and Williams was charged with disorderly conduct.



Arrests

Moultrie Police Department

• James Lee Clayton, 24, was charged Thursday with trespassing and possession of marijuana.

Police arrested Clayton after Wal-Mart, 641 Veterans Parkway S., reported he was found in the store’s electronics section after he had been banned from company property. At the time of his arrest police said suspected marijuana was found on Clayton.

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

• Christopher B. Ziegler, 39, 1135 Joe Louis Ave., was charged Thursday with driving while license suspended.



Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office

• Lajoye Waldon, 22, 1308 Hobsins Drive, was charged Thursday with probation violation.



Thefts

Moultrie Police Department

• Rose’s, 215 Sixth St. S.E., reported Thursday that a review of video revealed that a woman took a television out of its box and walked out of the store without paying for it.

Video was reviewed after an employee found the empty box and investigated how it ended up near the customer service center. The 19-inch Sansui HDTV was valued at $125.

On the same day the store reported that a woman tried to return a 32-inch Emerson television taken on the same day by a woman who put it into a shopping cart and walked out without paying. An employee tried to stop the woman before she left the store, but she got into a gold car and left.

• Albert Booth, Moultrie, reported Thursday that a former tenant of a residence in the 1200 block of Third Street Southeast took two scaffolds and a level from the property.

Booth told police that he contacted the man about the property but he did not return it.

• Joey Meads, Norman Park, reported Thursday the theft of a purse that Vergina Meads left at a restaurant in the 800 block of First Avenue Southeast.

Police said that video showed a female employee take the purse into a restroom. After the purse was found and returned to Meads, she reported that $250 was missing.

• Tequila Mooney, 200 block Rowland Drive, reported Thursday the theft of wedding bands valued at $450.

Mooney told police that she left her door unlocked for her exterminator and  that later in the day she discovered the rings were missing.

• J.B. Miller, Moultrie, reported Tuesday the theft of a center cap valued at $80 from the right front tire of a Cadillac Escalade.



Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office

• Rita Croker, 100 block Hall Trailer Road, reported Thursday the theft of prescription medication and two checkbooks.



Other investigations.

Moultrie Police Department

• Guanita Sckerratt, Moultrie, reported Thursday that her debit card was used without her permission to make charges totaling $913.