Weekend investigations yield numerous arrests

MOULTRIE — A Moultrie woman reported a man sitting on her porch for more than an hour on Saturday and then breaking a window with his head when she would not let him in.

Desaria Ashworth, of the 900 block of Seventh Avenue Southeast, reported that the man came to her residence at about 3:45 and that she refused to let him in because he was drunk.

Ashworth told police that the man eventually realized she was not going to let him in so he broke the window and left in a gray car.

Arrests

Moultrie Police Department

• Jimmy Darrell McCall, 51, 606 Second Ave. N.E., was charged Sunday with probation violation.

• Jermaine Jarrod Cobb, 36, 467 First Ave. S.E., was charged Thursday with probation violation.

• Victor Burwell Betts, 49, 1613 Triplett Ave., Thomasville, was charged Friday with suspended registration and no insurance.

• Megan Denise Sharpe, 27, 1515 Fourth Ave. N.E., was charged Friday with no insurance and suspended registration.

• Kathy Marie Williams, 34, 1180 Fourth St. S.W., was charged Friday with driving on suspended license and driving on suspended tag.

• Karen Elizabeth Hall, 29, 1802 West Blvd., was charged Sunday with cruelty to animals.

Hall was arrested after the Humane Society of Moultrie-Colquitt County reported Hall had been instructed to take a sick dog to the veterinarian a month ago and apparently had not done so.

• James Howell Sellers Jr., 49, 712 26th Ave. S.E., was charged Friday with driving under the influence and failure to use signal.

• Melissa Susan Crummey, 39, 809 N. Hansell St., Thomasville, was charged Saturday with driving on a suspended license and giving false information to law enforcement.

When Crummey was arrested on other traffic charges, police said, she gave the name of her twin sister.

She returned to Moultrie on Saturday to give her real name to prevent the sister from getting into trouble.

• Maria Angelica Garcia, 37, 174 Kendallwood Drive, was charged Saturday with no driver’s license and headlights required.

• Patricia Williams, 50, 1219 Faison Road, Funston, was charged Sunday with theft by shoplifting.

Williams was arrested after Save-A-Lot reported that she concealed candy and cheese in her purse and walked outside the store.

Williams told police that she had placed the merchandise in her purse to take it to the checkout counter and walked outside to smoke a cigarette.

• Ana Laura Segwa, 23, 218 Cedar St., was charged Sunday with no driver’s license and driving with suspended tag.

Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office

• Michael James Weaver, 27, 315 Circle Road, was charged Sunday with disorderly conduct and obstruction of officers.

Witnesses said that Weaver beat Collas Holton with a cane during an incident in the 200 block of Circle Road.

Sheriff’s reports said that Weaver ran from officers trying to arrest him and made them drag him to a patrol car after he was subdued.

• Brandon Lawhorne, 17, 384 E. Gate Circle, Kalib Arthur Smith, 18, and Michael Blakely, 51, 2185 Broad St., Doerun, were each charged Thursday with loitering.

Lawhorne and Blakely also were each charged with obstruction of an officer, and in addition Blakely was charged with battery.

Sheriff’s reports said that the three were arrested by deputies responding to a report of people in the back yard of a vacant house. Smith was arrested at that location and the two others ran and were arrested later.

Georgia State Patrol

• Beatrice Adriana Rosales, 23, 339 Willow Drive, was charged Friday with driving under the influence, driving while license withdrawn, endangerment of a child under 14, child restraint violation and adult seat belt violation.

• Brandon Cole Harrison, 18, 2197 U.S. Hwy. 319, Thomasville, was charged Saturday with driving under the influence, driving while license withdrawn, open container violation and failure to drive within a single lane.

• John Marlin Hurst, 18, 249 Ga. Hwy. 111, Pelham, was charged Saturday with possession of alcohol by a minor and open container violation.

Thefts

Moultrie Police Department

• Christian Book Store, 1600 First Avenue Southeast, reported Friday the theft of a bicycle light and two bicycle tubes with a total value of $69.

• Save-A-Lot, 205 Sixth St. S.E., reported Saturday that a male entered the store three times in a short period of time and a review of store video showed him taking candy.

Witnesses told police that the suspect ran toward a nearby housing area.

• Shomesh Package, 205 Fifth St. S.E., reported Saturday the theft of merchandise valued at $34.

• Walmart, 641 Veterans Parkway S., reported Saturday the theft of merchandise valued at $369.

Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office

• Raphael Bustamante, 700 block McElroy Road, reported Nov. 13 the theft of a PS3 video system.

Bustamante told an officer that he later found that the system, valued at $700, had been sold to a game store in Moultrie.

• Jim Autry, 4300 block Mitchell County Line Road, reported Friday the theft of $1,000, a Buck knife and pocket knife.

Autry also reported that a residence window had been broken, causing $200 in damage.

• Valentin Vasquez, 100 block Selena Road, reported Friday the theft of a Mongoose BMX-style bicycle valued at $125.

Assaults

• Brenda Shipp, Moultrie, reported Saturday that a female acquaintance pulled her out of a car and hit her in the head.

Shipp told police she and the woman had been drinking together prior to the assault.

Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office

• Kendrick Atkins, 100 block Doe Lane, reported Saturday that a female acquaintance kicked his mother’s car and pushed him.

Property damage

Moultrie Police Department

• Kisha Suggs, Moultrie, reported Sunday that the driver of a white Ford pickup truck crashed into the rear of her 2000 Toyota Avalon at the intersection of Georgia Highway East and Cool Springs Road.

Suggs told police that the elderly driver said he would wait for an officer to come write a report but then got in the truck and drove away.

• Elizabeth Morris, Moultrie, reported that a 2007 GMC Yukon was struck by another vehicle while parked in the 1700 block of First Avenue Southeast.

• Daryl Kinsey, 2400 block Fifth Avenue, reported Saturday that the two rear tires of a 2004 Buick Le Sabre had been cut, causing damage $300

Other investigations

Moultrie Police Department

• Joshua Hadley, Thomasville, reported Friday that a man and women were inside a house in the 600 block of Lane Street without permission and that a window had been broken at the rear of the building.

• John Shuman, Moultrie, reported Friday that while pushing shopping carts at work in the 600 block of Veterans Parkway a driver hit the line of carts, causing them to strike him in the left knee.

Shuman told police that he did not require medical attention. Police could not locate the driver.

• Wayne Baggett, 900 block Seventh Avenue Southeast, reported Saturday that a male acquaintance came to his residence at 7 a.m. and when he used vulgar language and made threats when Baggett opened the door.

Police talked to the man identified, who said he went to Baggett’s residence to talk to his family member about a fight that occurred earlier in the morning.

The man was told he would be arrested if he returned to Baggett’s property.

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