MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Moultrie firefighter’s call Thursday evening alerting police to a man trying to enter a city work truck allowed officers to nab the suspect.

The firefighter was sitting outside the fire station located in the City Hall building at just after 7 p.m. when he saw a man crouch down beside a Community Planning and Zoning Department vehicle, police said. The suspect, dressed in a light blue shirt and pants, then pulled the driver’s door handle a few times but was not able to get inside.

When the man noticed he was being observed, he walked north on First Street Northeast, the city employee told police. At one point he stopped at the intersection of First Street and Fifth Avenue Northeast, walked a short distance off the sidewalk and then threw something on the ground.

A short time later police took Jeremy Jerome Edwards, dressed as the firefighter described, into custody. Edwards, 35, 430 Seventh St. S.W., was charged with criminal trespass.

In other arrests

Moultrie Police

• Ben Vicks, 37, 200 Seventh Ave. N.W., was charged Wednesday with criminal trespass and obstruction of an officer.

• Charlie Earnest Murphy, 40, 1304 Hutchinson Drive, was charged Thursday with driving while license withdrawn, theft by receiving stolen property and failure to wear head gear and eye-protective devices for riders.

Sheriff’s Office

• Holly Davidson Taylor, 25, 178 Randall Salter Road was charged Thursday with interference with a location monitoring device.

• Belinda Carroll Jackson, 43, 1651 Funston-Sale City Road, was charged Thursday with theft by deception and theft by receiving stolen property.

• Alejandrino Hernandez Hernandez, 31, was charged Thursday with driving without license.

• James William Garnto, 39, was charged Wednesday with criminal trespass and violation of family violence order.

• Keith Lamar Brown, 33, 156 E. Mulberry St., Funston, was charged Wednesday with simple battery.

• Patricia Ann Godboldt, 39, 4603 Thigpen Trail, Hartsfield, was charged Tuesday with criminal trespass.

Probation violation

Moultrie Police

• Jeffery Allen Edmonds, 31, 3075 Cannon Road.

Sheriff’s Office

• Michael Allen McMurphy, 55, 2551 Hwy. 133 S.

• Colin Anthony Terrell Jr., 25, 500 Joe Grey Road.

• Aaron Richter Wallace.

• Johnnie Lewis McNeal Jr., 19, 381 Tim & Sally’s Lane, Omega.

Thefts

Moultrie Police

• Mary Newman, 74, Moultrie, reported Thursday the theft of a cell phone that she misplaced while shopping in the 600 block of Veterans Parkway South.

• Freddie Williams, Moultrie reported Thursday the theft of an iPhone 5 that was taken from his son’s book bag.

Battery

Sheriff’s Office

• Wilma Williams, 1200 block Doc Darbyshire Road, reported Thursday that a male companion attacked her during a domestic dispute.

Other investigations

Sheriff’s Office

• Margaret Blackburn, 900 block Crosland-Lenox Road, Lenox, reported Thursday that as she was driving out of her driveway she saw a car driving slowly by her residence with one of the occupants taking photos.

Blackburn told police that she tried to follow the red 2017 Chrysler Pacifica occupied by two females, but was unable to get close enough to get a tag number.