MOULTRIE, Ga. — Charges have been officially filed against a driver accused of hitting a Moultrie police officer as he tried to remove the keys from her SUV.

Miranda Lee Johnson, 32, 1008 Holmes Drive, was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, fleeing and attempting to elude, obstruction of an officer, cruelty to children, DUI, DUI endangerment of a child under the age of 14, leaving the scene of an accident, driving on the wrong side of the road, transaction in drug-related objects, failure to stop at a stop sign, striking a fixed object, driving while license suspended and reckless driving.

As reported in the Jan. 6 Moultrie Observer, Moultrie police saw a blue Chevrolet Trailblazer at what appeared to be a drug purchase Jan. 4 in the 800 block of Sixth Street Southeast. Johnson got into the Trailblazer, police said, and as officers told her to stop, she began backing the SUV away. An officer reached in to turn off the ignition switch, and she allegedly accelerated, spinning tires, according to police reports.

The driver’s front door post struck Sgt. Justin Lindsay’s arm and drove it into the rear door post before he was struck by the driver’s exterior mirror.

Police said the officers got into their car and followed Johnson. They saw her run a number of stop signs, police said, and tried to maneuver to get ahead of her. When they saw her again, she was driving on the wrong side of the road toward Cox Elementary School, police said, so the officers ended the pursuit.

They did, however, travel in the same direction they’d last seen her heading, and they found the SUV abandoned behind a mobile home on South Boulevard.

A witness said the woman had run from the SUV while carrying a toddler. She and the child were found in the office of a nearby business. Johnson was placed under arrest, and the child was turned over to a family member.

Lindsay was treated at Colquitt Regional Medical Center and released.

In other arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• James Robert Tucker, 3198 Kendallwood Church Road, was charged Friday with possession of methamphetamine.

Drug Enforcement Team agents went to Tucker’s residence due to a probation issue, investigators said. While there, they received permission to search his truck, where they found a quantity of meth.

• Derica Denise Durham, 31, of Sparks, was charged Saturday with no insurance.

• Kendrick Tywon Clark, 23, 1121 Elliott Brown Apt. 5, was charged Thursday with theft by taking and two counts probation violation.

• Harold Lee Booth, 58, Newborn, Ga., was charged Monday with failure to drive in a single lane, suspended registration and no insurance.

Moultrie Police

• Lacey Wilson, 32, 2820 First Ave. S.E. Lot 1, was charged Saturday with giving a false name to police and probation violation.

• Raquel Vazquez-Hernandez, 44, 1108 Second St. S.E., was charged Friday with expired vehicle tag or decal and expired driver’s license.

• Terrence Rashard Ryce, 28, 717 Hillcrest Ave., was charged Jan. 3 with possession of a controlled substance near a public school and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

• Cornelius Quarles Jr., 30, 223 Sixth St. S.W., was charged Jan. 4 with disorderly conduct.

• Randall C. Hudson, 35, 233 Lindale Ave., was charged Jan. 2 with two counts of burglary, misdemeanor possession of marijuana and criminal damage to property in the second degree.

• Terrance Dyquan Huckaby, 18, 1957 Sylvester Highway Lot 45, was charged Friday with probation violation, driving without a license and driving without headlights when required.

• Luther Engram, 36, 814 Third Ave. N.W., was charged Saturday with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass.

• Leo Nick Herring III, 46, 620 13th St. S.W., was charged Friday with driving while tag suspended, driving while license suspended and no insurance.

• Rhonda Closson, 52, 620 Third St. S.E., was charged Friday with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

• Jeremy Arthur Raymond, 29, 1791 Funston-Sigsbee Road, was charged Jan. 3 with obstruction and public indecency.

Berlin Police

• Latasha Monise Nelson, 38, of Valdosta, was charged Sunday on a bench warrant.

Probation violation

Sheriff’s Office

• Ronald Jerome McIntyre, 38, 1108 Third St. S.E.

• Kevaughn Tamajh Hayes, 26, 1205 Sixth Ave. N.W.

Moultrie Police

• Norris Lavelle McClendon, 45, 800 Shy Manor Drive. McClendon was also charged on a bench warrant.

• Felicia Patrica Kohler, 30, of Valdosta.

Thefts

Sheriff’s Office

• Janet Davis, of Lakeland, Fla., reported a motorcycle trailer valued at $6,000 was taken from the 400 block of B. Newson Road between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. Saturday. Davis said the trailer had been attached to a 2015 GMC truck when it went missing.

• James Wainwright, of Columbia Falls, Mont., reported a kitchen island valued at $650 and a $200 television set were taken from a residence on Willingham Road Dec. 15. He reported the theft Saturday after hearing the identity of a possible suspect.

Violence

Sheriff’s Office

• A woman in the 100 block of Edmondson Road reported a fight Friday between her 17-year-old and 13-year-old sons. The younger boy was checked by EMS but was not transported to the hospital.  The older boy was identified as the primary aggressor, but no charges were filed.

• A 14-year-old girl reported Saturday afternoon that she was shot in the leg with a pellet gun after she and her friend passed a group of juvenile boys in the 100 block of 29th Avenue Northwest. She had pain and local swelling, deputies said, but the pellet did not penetrate her pants and she did not require medical assistance.

• A man in the 2600 block of Tallokas Road reported Sunday that the mother of his child and her mother assaulted him at Hamilton School in Hartsfield. The man said he had taken the 6-year-old girl to the school to give to her mother at the end of his custody period. He said the women were angry at him because he wouldn’t take the child to Pelham, where they live, to turn her over to them. He said the 6-year-old witnessed the verbal and physical assault.