13-year-old charged with online threat

Published 5:59 pm Wednesday, October 5, 2016

MOULTRIE, Ga. — A threatening image sent over the weekend by a 13-year-old boy via a social media site landed the middle school student in a detention facility on two felony charges.

Police charged the teen-ager with terroristic threats and dissemination of information relating to terroristic acts.

“He posted a picture that could be taken as a threat to C.A. Gray (Junior High) School,” Colquitt County Sheriff’s Inv. Michael Cox said.

The intended victim of the threatening image was another 13-year-old male, police said.

State authorities ordered the suspect held in a youth detention center.

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In another school-related incident a 12-year-old boy at Willie J. Williams Middle School was released to his parents after he was detained on Monday.

According to police the student used vulgar language toward a physical education coach.

Police charged the student with disorderly conduct.

Battery

Moultrie Police

• Steven Craviness, 28, Pelham, reported Tuesday that a female companion brandished a knife during an argument in the 900 block of Seventh Street Northwest.

Craviness told police that he attempted to pin the woman against a wall to prevent her from cutting him. The incident was a misunderstanding and the woman was drunk.

Audrey Herring, the resident at the apartment, told police that she had the knife because she was going to cut fish for cooking when she and Craviness began arguing. She had no intention of cutting Craviness and that the cut was an accident.

Herring was intoxicated when officers arrived, police said, and no charges were filed. Emergency medical personnel were called to the residence to examine a laceration Craviness’s right hand but he refused treatment.

Police served a trespass notice banning him from all Moultrie Housing Authority properties, police said, and a deputy drove him to Mitchell County.

Sheriff’s Office

• Kristy Weldon, 182 Cool Springs Road, reported Saturday that a male companion grabbed her by the shoulders while she was sitting in a chair and that she reacted by grabbing him by the neck.

Jeffrey Tillery, who had a small cut and bruising to his neck, initiated the involvement of law enforcement by calling for assistance with an unwanted guest. Weldon had been staying there about three weeks, they have been arguing and he was “tired of Kristy breaking things around the house.”

Tillery admitted to a deputy that he grabbed Weldon by the shoulders and picked her up out of the chair, police said.

Police charged Tillery with disorderly conduct and Weldon with simple battery (family violence).

Arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• Abe Dewayne Dennis, 33, 209 Third St. N.W., was charged Tuesday with possession of marijuana with intent.

• Bobby Scott Daughtry, 40, 2861 Harmony Road, was charged Tuesday with possession of methamphetamine.

• Mckinley Cory Harrison, 36, 1029 Second Ave. N.W., was charged Monday with three family-family violence counts — battery and two counts misdemeanor cruelty to children — and probation violation.

• Leon Anthony Merritt, 34, 739-A Tillman Road, was charged Sept. 19 with possession of more than an ounce of marijuana, criminal attempt to manufacture methamphetamine and probation violation.

Moultrie Police

• Ernesto Velez, 58, 2604 Seventh St. S.E., was charged Monday with theft by receiving stolen property, theft by taking and two counts financial transaction card fraud.

• Kenneth Arthur Seay, 67, 215 11th Ave. S.E., was charged Tuesday with duty to obey police officer and two counts probation violation.

Probation violation

Sheriff’s Office

• Brandon Allen Boyd, 24, 237 19th St. N.E.

Moultrie Police

• Tonya Nichole Johnson, 40, 902 Fifth St. S.E.

Battery

Sheriff’s Office

• Melissa Kilgore, 2300 block Funston-Sigsbee Road, reported Sunday that a male acquaintance pointed a gun at her head while a woman demanded that Kilgore give her the money that the gunman owed her for drugs.

Kilgore told police that the man and woman came to her residence and told her to get into a truck because they “need to talk about some things.” He drove next door and parked behind a metal shop, and after they got out he pointed the gun at her.

Kilgore also reported the theft of a state-issue child support debit card.

Burglary

Sheriff’s Office

• Jose Sanchez, 6000 block Highway 33 North, Doerun, reported Tuesday the theft of clothing and other property valued at a total of $401.

Thefts

Sheriff’s Office

• Victoria Stay, 2500 block Sylvester Drive, reported Tuesday that a woman to whom she entrusted her debit card left on Monday and did not return with it.

Stay told police that the woman had been staying at her residence and helping her and that she told her to make a withdrawal with the debit card.

• Christopher Boyd, 400 block Wild Heron Road, Midway, reported Saturday the theft of a Toyota 4Runner valued at $1,800.

Boyd told police that when he moved out of a residence in the 1000 block of Sharon Church Road his friend who lived there told him that he could leave the car there.

The friend did not return his calls, but another acquaintance told Boyd that the friend had let him take some of the parts and had then sold it to for scrap metal in Lenox, Boyd told police. The friend has not returned his calls.

• Family Dollar, 2795 West Blvd., reported Wednesday that a shoplifter walked out with an unknown amount of merchandise.

An employee told police that she observed the man concealing items on him and that when she confronted him he handed her two pairs of socks. When the employee told him she had called police he walked out, apparently with other merchandise that he did not return.

• Jennifer Nieves, 700 block Overlook Drive, reported Wednesday the theft of property valued at $750.

• Pamela Holt, 600 block J.O. Steward Road, Norman Park, reported Sunday the theft of a cell phone valued at $800.

Holt told police that prior to realizing the phone was missing a male relative made a comment about it being in the center console of her car. Knowing he could only know that if he had been inside the car she checked and found the phone was not there.

After communicating by text between them the man eventually asked the value of the phone and said he would pay for it but asked her to not call law enforcement. However, he maintained he had not taken the phone.

Moultrie Police

• William McQueen, 1400 block Crescent Lane, reported Tuesday the theft of a 2004 Bilt Rite 16’ utility trailer valued at $2,500 that he had borrowed from Benjamin Clayton, 35.

• Ulysses Tomblin, 500 Northside Drive, reported Tuesday the theft of cash and property valued at a total of $450.

Other investigations

Sheriff’s Office

• Shanna Taylor, 1200 block Porter Street, reported Saturday that a male walked around her garage area.

• Emily Smith, 200 block C.O. Kennedy Road, reported Sunday that while walking on the road near her residence the driver of a gray Ford Ranger nearly struck her.

Smith told police the driver increased speed as he passed her.

A deputy stopped the driver, who admitted he had been driving earlier. The driver refused a request by officers to search the Ranger.

A deputy gave him a verbal warning to slow down.