MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Moultrie grocery store owner was attacked on Friday when he chased down a suspected shoplifter carrying a bag of meat.

Police were dispatched at about 5 p.m. to the 205 Sixth St. S.E. Save-A-Lot store to a report of a fight in which one of the participants had a gun.

When officers arrived, Al Solanki and one of his employees had a man detained.

Solanki told police that Tony Bernard Coates, the man being detained, had spit on him. He reported that he saw the suspect in the store with a bag already in his hand and then saw that meat inside the bag was from Sav-A-Lot.

When he confronted the suspect and asked for a receipt, police said, Solanki was attacked. The suspect then broke away and ran into the parking lot, where he eventually was detained.

Police charged Coates, 47, 127 Fifth St. S.E., with simple battery and theft by shoplifting.

In another shoplifting case on Friday an employee at Oxley’s, 818 W. Central Ave., chased down a thief and recovered the box of Summer’s Eve douche he had concealed on him.

The employee knew that the man had been banned from the store and, when told by other employees about the theft, confronted him in the parking lot. The man ran and the employee was able to catch him and recover the $3 worth of merchandise.

The man was not detained, but police will take warrants for the man’s arrest.

In other arrests

• Rafael Rosales, 40, 404 E. Central Ave., was charged Monday with driving without license and probation violation.

• Kelley Maire Rainey, 28, 162 Dogwood Drive, was charged Monday with theft by shoplifting and criminal trespass.

• Allen Roger Furney, 41, 128 Old Culbertson Road, was charged Thursday with public drunkenness, duty to obey police officer and criminal trespass.

• Michelle Hart Treon, 29, 4598 Bay Rockyford Road, Coolidge, was charged Saturday with failure to appear.

• Daniel Lamar Simpson, 31, 3509 Doerun-Norman Park Road, was charged Sunday with no insurance and driving while license withdrawn.

• Keldrick Quintez Hightower, 21, 1725 W. Oakridge Drive, Albany, was charged Saturday with no insurance and driving without license.

Sheriff’s Office

• Kevin Wayne Knippel, 24, 220 Yogi Bear Road, Norman Park, was charged Monday with theft by receiving stolen property.

• Jonathan Dean Moxley, 21, 149 Moxley Lane, was charged Dec. 10 with theft by taking.

• Randy Millard Bivins, 44, 945 Perry Road, was charged Sunday with battery.

• Melissa Lynn Kilgore, 30, 250 Greenfield Church Road, was charged Saturday with failure to appear.

Burglary

Moultrie Police

• Aime Reyes, 500 block Ninth Street Southwest, reported Saturday the theft of electronics valued at $500

Thefts

Moultrie Police

• Brandi Debruce, 200 block Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, reported Sunday the theft of a 2004 Chevrolet Malibu.

• Aimee Daniels, 200 block Seventh Street Southeast, reported that a male companion withdrew $405 from her bank account, took her wallet and, while she was sleeping, got the keys to her 2014 Ford Fusion and left in it.

• Wal-Mart, 641 Veterans Parkway, reported Friday that a girl had placed cosmetics inside a blanket.

Police looked for the blanket inside the store, but were unable to find it.

A 17-year-old girl told police that she had taken a tag from a pair of sweat pants and scanned it for an item of clothing that cost more.

A store employee allowed the 17-year-old to pay the difference in price and both girls were allowed to leave.

Sheriff’s Office

• Roosevelt Hampton, 200 block Chinaberry Lane, reported Monday the theft of a Glock semi-automatic pistol valued at $500.

• Donna Davidson, 100 block Randall Salter Road, Omega, reported Monday the theft of two headlights, an Alpine car radio, Dodge Ram wiring harness and a Craftsman air compressor of unknown value.

• Brandon Pena, 1300 block Alton Road, Norman Park, reported Monday that a female acquaintance took his license plate, car title and birth certificate from his 2001 Nissan Sentra after they had an argument.

• Elizabeth Fraley, 200 block Indian Lake Drive, Norman Park, reported Monday that a neighbor had plugged an extension cord into an outlet and used an unknown amount of electricity.

She told police that she did not wish to prosecute the neighbor.

• Marcie Hurts reported Monday that a male relative stole an amplifier out of the trunk of her car.

Entering auto

Sheriff’s Office

• James Tucker, 3100 block Kendalwood Church Road, reported Monday the theft of a Diehard battery, Searchtech 2 and a box of vintage jewelry with a total value of $650 from a 1998 Chevrolet Silverado.

Battery

Sheriff’s Office

• Selinda Daughtry, 200 block Cherry Street, Norman Park, reported Wednesday that a male companion grabbed her by the wrist, threw her to the floor and slapped her multiple times.

Police were dispatched to Colquitt Regional Medical Center, where Daughtry sought treatment for her injuries.

She told police that when she took the man to get some beer he got angry because she was using her phone and broke it. On the way home she got scared, stopped the car and walked away. When she went back home the man told her to come inside and it was when she told him that she wanted to leave that he attacked her.

Daughtry had a bruise on her right wrist and an abrasion on her left elbow, police said.

She was treated and released, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Fraud

Moultrie Police

• Bishop’s, 402 First St. S.E., reported Friday that someone passed a forged check.

• Somesh Package, 205 Fifth St. S.E., reported Friday that a man passed a forged check.

Property damage

Moultrie Police

• Tyler Watkins, 1800 block Garden Villa Drive, reported Monday that someone threw eggs at the residence.

• Cathy Bell, 700 block Fifth Avenue Southwest, reported Monday that a male companion broke her glass coffee table and damaged the bathroom during an argument.

• Clinton Peterson, 71, Moultrie, reported that windows were broken at a vacant house in the 1200 block of 13th Avenue Southwest.

Other investigations

Moultrie Police

• Tylarian Simpson, 22, Moultrie, reported Sunday that a male acquaintance pulled a rifle on him during a dispute.

Simpson told police that he was trying to defend his cousins Shiquita Slaughter and Ciara Slaughter from Ciara Slaughter’s boyfriend, whose brother pulled out the rifle.

A witness told police that the man pointed the gun at Simpson and cocked it.

• Jacob Bill Folsom, 21, Moultrie, reported Saturday that a male acquaintance fired what sounded like eight gunshots at him as he was driving near the intersection of West Bypass and Old Doerun Road.

Folsom told police that he was not injured and that no bullets struck his truck. He said the man who shot at him had been having problems with his little brother and he had told the man to leave his brother alone.