MOULTRIE — A 16-year-old student faces a lengthy list of charges, including marijuana possession, obstruction of officers and battery, in connection with a Wednesday morning assault at Colquitt County High.

Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office reports said that while in the school cafeteria the teen threw a chair at 14-year-old Paul Dawson and then hit him in the back of the head before running out of the school and through a parking lot and jumping a fence.

A school official caught him about 200 yards away from campus and he was brought to a principal’s office, where suspected marijuana was found during a search. The teen then again ran and got into a hallway where he was stopped by another school employee, sheriff’s reports said.

He was charged with battery on a school teacher or personnel, escape, possession of marijuana, obstruction of officers, disruption of a public school and battery. The student was taken to the state youth detention center in Crisp County.

In a separate incident at C.A. Gray Junior High, a student was detained after three small bags of suspected marijuana were found in his backpack.

The 14-year-old turned over the suspected marijuana after he was questioned by an assistant principal who had been told the student had marijuana, sheriff’s reports said.

In other arrests:

• Kevin Artis Owens, 27, 2202 W. Pensacola St., Tallahassee, Fla., was charged Thursday with driving while license withdrawn and speeding.



Moultrie Police

• Steven Jamal Johnson, 29, 316 Fifth St. N.W., was charged Wednesday with battery (family violence).

• Donnie Lee Tillman, 57, 468 Southern Ave., Berlin, was charged Wednesday with driving under the influence, open container violation and speeding.

• Arey Rosia Estrada, 28, 171 Plum Nelly Lane, Norman Park, was charged Wednesday with no driver’s license and running red light.

• Tonica L. Wimberly, 38, 1102 Sixth St. S.W., was charged Wednesday with theft by shoplifting.

She is accused of taking two air mattresses, valued at $120, out of Wal-Mart, 641 Veterans Parkway S., without paying for them.



Assaults

Moultrie Police

• Quinten Garrett, Moultrie, reported Wednesday that he was beaten and robbed by several men at 5:35 a.m. on Fourth Court Northwest.

Garrett told police that a group of men approached and asked him for a lighter. When he said he did not have one three of them jumped him, beating him and taking $30, an Android Fusion cell telephone, debit card and Social Security card before throwing his wallet on the ground.

• Christian Spradley, Berlin, reported Wednesday that a male acquaintance hit him in the face after striking his car as they were driving at 8:19 a.m. on South Veterans Parkway near Magnolia Avenue.

Spradley told police that after the other driver changed lanes as he did and the cars collided, he went to the nearby ball park where he was hit in the face.

He did not have any visible injuries on his face, police reports said.

Hunter Hancock told police that the 2008 Ford SRW he was driving struck the 1999 Chevrolet Silverardo driven by Spradley when Spradley slammed on braked in front of him.

He denied hitting Spradley, and the SRW had minor damage, police said.

Passengers in both the teens’ vehicles backed up the story given by the respective drivers. No charges were filed.



Thefts

Moultrie Police

• Stephanie Lee, Moultrie, reported Wednesday the theft of a white iPhone 4S that was stolen Sunday while she was in the 300 block of East Central Avenue.

Lee, who said her telephone had been replaced, but someone later told her that a man had posted on Facebook that he had a white iPhone FS for sale for $175.



Property damage

Moultrie Police

• Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition reported Wednesday that a women’s bathroom at 290 Harper Blvd. Building G was damaged, with the door broken and fire extinguisher emptied inside.

• Amber Dayton, Moultrie, reported Wednesday that the hood of a 2006 Suzuki Forena was scratched while parked in the 1700 block of First Avenue Southeast.

• Rene Mims, 1000 block Sixth Street Southeast, reported Wednesday that a car that turned around on her property struck her 2006 Chevrolet HHR.

• Emily Snipes, Moultrie, reported Wednesday that after she rear-ended another car on Veterans Parkway South at First Avenue Southeast the other driver left the scene.

She was treated at the scene for an injury to her arm by Colquitt County Emergency Medical Service, police said.