MOULTRIE — An anonymous caller’s report of a domestic dispute resulted in police jailing a couple on probation charges on Tuesday at their residence.

John Todd Barfield, 29, also was charged with simple battery. He and Patricia Ann Dunn were each charged with one count each of probation violation.

Officers responded just before midnight to 209 Dorothy St., where Dunn, who identified Barfield as her boyfriend, told police they had been arguing in their front yard. During that incident he grabbed her around the neck and pushed her onto a parked car, she reported.

Witnesses who came outside reported seeing Barfield choking Dunn, police said. He left when they told him they had called the police.

A check turned up an active warrant for Dunn, and she was taken into custody at that time. She had a minor scratch to her neck but did not need medical attention, police said.

At about 6:15 a.m. Wednesday Barfield returned home and he was placed under arrest.

In other arrests:

• Eleanora Annie Piernikowski, 35, was charged Tuesday with possession of cocaine and theft by receiving stolen property.

Piernikowski was arrested after police investigated a report of a Ford Ranger parked at about 9:20 p.m. on private property in the 300 block of Eighth Street Northeast. She was sitting in the passenger seat and said she had been talking with her friend, who fled, taking the ignition key, just before officers arrived.

The family of the truck’s owner told police that they wanted the truck towed, police said, and when they took an inventory of the truck found a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol under the driver’s seat and suspected cocaine and a pipe under the passenger seat.

A check revealed the gun was reported stolen in August 2010, police said.

• Umeko Nicole Kinsey, 26, 3610 Old Adel Road, was charged Wednesday with criminal trespass.

Doerun Police

• Tanner Lee Cook, 21, 334 W. Broad St., Doerun, was charged Wednesday with failure to stop for stop sign and driving while license suspended.

Sheriff’s Office

• Brittany Nicole Padilla, 29, 1599 Enchanted Forest Drive, Conley, Ga., was charged Wednesday with forgery.

Probation violation

Moultrie Police

• Joshua Adam McMurphy, 30, 274 Dick Traylor Road.

• Joshua Martin Lassetter, 22, 3597 Sumner Road.

• Ray Edward Vinson Jr., 31, 1330 Hwy. 319 N. Lot D, Norman Park.

• Marquise Perez Knight, 27, 612 Fourth St. N.W.

Thefts

Sheriff’s Office

• Denver Braswell, 100 block Woodmen Road, reported confronting two people who were loading his scrap metal.

Braswell told police that he told them to put the metal in his truck and to get off his property. He did not wish to press charges.

A deputy warned the two people identified by Braswell that they could have been arrested on charges of theft by taking and criminal trespass, and that they should not return to his property.

• Oscar Luna, 500 block Rossman Dairy Road, reported Wednesday that his 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe was taken from his residence while he was away.

A deputy found the truck later in the day, sheriff’s reports said.

Burglary

Sheriff’s Office

• Rachael Register, 800 block Clarence Norman Road, reported Tuesday the theft of two antique jewelry boxes and miscellaneous costume jewelry.

Register did not know the value of the stolen items, police said.

Entering auto

Moultrie Police

• Tony Brock, 700 block First Street Southeast, reported Wednesday that someone rummaged through a 2006 GMC Sierra.

Domestic dispute

• Kaneisha Farrell, 29, Moultrie, reported Wednesday that a male companion threatened her with a brick during an argument.

John Strong, 300 block Ninth Street Southwest, told police that Farrell chased him around his yard while holding a butcher knife so he picked up the brick in self defense. He said that Strong’s family took the knife and threw it in some bushes across the street.

Police did not find a brick or a knife in the area. Neither Farrell nor Strong wished to press charges against the other.

Property damage

Moultrie Police

• Robert Adkins, Moultrie, reported Wednesday that a 1996 Honda Accord was struck by another car while parked in the 600 block of Veterans Parkway.