Police investigating reports Saturday of someone breaking into a central air conditioning unit at a church arrested a man with pockets full of tools.

At about 8:20 a.m. Saturday, officers were sent to Lewis Temple, 900 Third St. N.W. A bystander waved down one of the officers, who found a man wearing orange shorts that matched the description given at the intersection of Fourth Street and Ninth Avenue Northwest.

The man, later identified as Derrick McBride, had a pair of pliers in one of his back pockets, police said. The man, who identified himself as Derrick Adams, also had a pair of folding pliers and drill bits in the other back pocket.

Police round a screwdriver in his front pocket, reports said.

When police examined the air conditioner they found screws had been removed from the outer cover. A shoe print next to the air conditioner matched the shoes McBride was wearing, police said.

McBride, 29, 620 Ninth Ave. S.E., was charged with possession of tools for the commission of a crime and giving false information.

In other arrests:

• Ashkeia Keyonna Waldon, 18, 560 27th St. S.E. Apt. 3, was charged Friday with possession of marijuana.

• William Richard Gandy, 56, 1603 Overlook Drive, was charged Saturday with public drunk.

• Karen Annete Carmichle, 48, 1509 Hutchinson Drive, was charged Saturday with theft by shoplifting.

• Letherrio Dangelo Farrell, 356, 217 Third St. N.W., was charged Friday with probation violation.

• Dylan Wilce Grubbs, 21, 185 Carroll Lewis Road Lenox, was charged Friday with probation violation.

• Sidney Walker, 53, 323 W. Central. Ave., was charged Friday with probation violation.

• Davey Barge, 31, 825 E. Central Ave., was charged Friday with probation violation.

Sheriff’s Office

• Darrell Lamar Johnson, 54, 522 27th St. S.E. Apt. 2, was charged Saturday with failure to appear, probation violation and driving while license withdrawn.

• Katelyn Ann Fritz, 20, 1160 R.L. Norman Road, Norman Park, was charged Sunday with probation violation.

• Jacob Brian Bowles, 23, 104 North St. Apt. A, Hahira, was charged Friday with probation violation.

State Patrol

• Quentin Shawn Cooper, 1957 Sylvester Hwy. Lot 28, was charged Friday with suspended license.

• Cynthia Elizabeth McCall, 41, 524 Indian Lake Drive, was charged Saturday with driving under the influence and tail lights required.

Berlin Police

• Rodriguez Deonte Mason, 4203 Herme Place Apt. A-1, Valdosta, was charged Friday with driving with a suspended license and speeding.

Doerun Police

• Jessica Ann Powell, 1421 Lincoln Ave., Albany, was charged Saturday with probation violation.

Norman Park Police

• Norma Landeros, 28, Moultrie, was charged Sunday with suspended license and speeding.

Thefts

Moultrie Police

• Alma Smith, 800 block Northside Drive, reported Friday the theft of a check from the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $3,383.

Smith told police she spoke with the agency and was told someone cashed the check in June.

• Ronnie Barrett, Moultrie, reported the theft of an unknown number of candelabras. The value of the stolen property was estimated at $2,500.

• Andy Patel, Moultrie, reported Friday the theft of his wife’s passport out of his car parked at his store, Best Little Store in Georgia, 619 W. Central Ave.

Patel told police that two males who had recently been causing a disturbance in the store came in at about 9:30 p.m. and caused a disturbance so he told them to leave.

The store’s camera showed one of them going through Patel’s car and throwing items out of it, police said. The passport was the only thing taken.

• Patrick Pridgen, 600 block 11th Street Southwest, reported Saturday that two juveniles took his Mongoose bicycle out of his yard but dropped it when he yelled at them.

Rosemary Corona, Moultrie, reported Sunday the theft of her purse out of a 2000 Ford SRW parked in the 2400 block of South Main Street. The wallet contained $170, cash cards, Social Security card and driver’s license.

 

Sheriff’s Office

• Sutton System Sales, 184 S. Baker St., Ellenton, reported Friday the theft of a diesel tank and 500 gallons of diesel.

• Stoney Cardin, 500 block Peachtree Street, reported Saturday the theft of a pistol valued at $300.

Property damage

Moultrie Police

• Joanie Blackburn, Moultrie, reported Friday that a roadside memorial at Third Avenue Southeast and Circle Drive was vandalized.

• Paul Moore, 1100 block 10th Street Southeast, reported Saturday that a driver ran over his in-ground garbage can and liner.

• Warren West, 100 block Fourth Street Southwest, reported Sunday that a kitchen window was broken at his residence.

• An officer investigating a call at Moultrie Tire Co., 900 N. Main St., found a window broken on Sunday.

Assaults

Moultrie Police

• Ga’Miveya Dozier, Moultrie, reported Sunday that a male acquaintance hit her in the mouth.

Quamesia Jenkins, Moultrie, reported that while she was in the 300 block of Second Street Northwest a woman got out of a car and assaulted her.

Jenkins had visible injuries, including a bloody elbow, knots on her forehead, and also had an earring torn out of her ear and hair extension pieces pulled out of her head, police said.

• Alfonzo Moore, Moultrie, reported that someone punched him in the chest and took his cell telephone at about 5:30 p.m. in the Colquitt County Courthouse square in the first block of South Main Street.

• Rhiya Mansfield, 800 block Elliot Brown Street, reported Friday that a female relative pushed and punched her during a dispute.

Kelsey Mansfield told police that Rhiya pushed her first and she pushed her back.

Neither wanted to press charges and no arrests were made.

• Shabrika Hamilton, Pavo, reported Saturday that a female acquaintance hit her in the face during a dispute at about 1:40 a.m. in the 800 block of Ninth Avenue Southeast.

Hamilton told police that the other woman left in a brown Chrysler and that during the incident someone took her book bag containing clothing which she valued at $110.

Sheriff’s Office

• Taneisha Wyche,  1200 block Holmes Drive, reported Sunday that a male acquaintance hit her during a dispute.

• Jorge Delapaz, 100 block Hard Avenue, Omega, reported Monday that a male acquaintance assaulted him on Las Vegas Lane near Norman Park.

Delapaz reported that he was called to work on a piece of equipment, and when he arrived the man and another he did not know were there. When the man said something about getting a pistol Delapaz got in his vehicle and left.

• Herman Scott, 500 block Indian Lake Drive, reported Saturday that a male acquaintance pointed a gun at him.

Other investigations

Moultrie Police

• Ever Silva, Moultrie, reported Friday that someone employed at an Ellenton vegetable packing shed was using his identity.

• Maha Baddour, Moultrie, reported Saturday that on Friday she was contacted by a bank where a man who clamed to be an employee of Baddour’s was trying to cash a check.

Baddour told police that the man does not work for her. The bank told her the man left without cashing the check, leaving his identification behind, and that another person claiming to be her employee had cashed an $864 check.

Sheriff’s Office

• The driver of a 1999 Lexus eluded a deputy on foot after the deputy made a traffic stop at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the 200 block of Second Avenue Northwest.

The deputy initiated the stop because the driver was not wearing a seat belt, sheriff’s reports said. The driver ran a stop sign at Third Avenue and Third Street Northwest before turning onto Second Avenue and then running from the car.