Shots fired outside sports bar
Published 9:44 pm Wednesday, January 10, 2018
MOULTRIE, Ga. — An early morning confrontation outside a Moultrie watering hole ended with shots fired from two weapons, damaging a wall and a window.
It was the first of two shooting incidents Moultrie police investigated on Sunday, but no one was hurt in either incident.
A Moultrie Police Department officer was dispatched at about 2:05 a.m. Sunday to 506 Hwy. 133 S., identified as Touch Down Sports Bar.
There, a witness told them that there was a group of two men and two women arguing that he told to leave. Then he saw a group of males at a car and saw a bullet hit the ground before hearing several more gunshots.
A second witness told police that as the people were leaving a short Hispanic male in a white Ford Escalade fired a shot at the ground and also shot into the air.
A bullet fired into the ground ricocheted and went through a glass window, police said, and there was a hole in the wall from the bullet.
The officer found one 9 mm pistol casing and two .40-caliber casings, police said.
Later on Sunday police responded to the 600 block of Ninth Avenue Southeast to a report of a gunshot being fired at a residence.
Smith reported at about 7 p.m. that while sitting in her living room she heard a shot. At the time Smith saw her curtain move and a sound from her bedroom.
She then noticed that there was a hole in her window.
Smith estimated it would cost about $350 to fix the window.
Arrests
Moultrie Police
• Sonya Griffin McCall, 41, 108 E. Bethel Ave., was charged Tuesday with failure to drive in a single lane, driving while license withdrawn and driver exercise due care.
• Charlie Earnest Murphy, 40, of 1304 Hutchinson Drive, was arrested Dec. 30 on a charge of being a fugitive from another state in connection with a warrant from Leon County, Fla. Colquitt County Jail paperwork did not indicate what the original charge in Florida was.
Sheriff’s Office
• Tandi Shirah, 33, 1290 Shiftlit Road, was charged Tuesday with deposit account fraud.
• Mary Elizabeth Wiggins, 28, 112 Tallokas Road, was charged Tuesday on a drug court violation.
Georgia State Patrol
• Jessica Rosa Conner, 31, of Valdosta, was charged Monday with failure to drive in a single lane and driving under the influence.
Burglary
Sheriff’s Office
• Ashley Underwood, 400 block Pioneer Trail, reported Tuesday the theft of property totaling, $1,503 including a Citizen women’s watch, two pairs diamond earrings, emerald pendant, cross necklace with diamond, topaz pendant, $300 in cash and prescription medication.
Moultrie Police
• Alexis Haywood, 400 block 10th Avenue Southeast, reported Saturday the theft of electronics valued at $3,257.
Thefts
Sheriff’s Office
• Rhonda Sutton, 2600 block R.L. Sears Road, Norman Park, reported Tuesday the theft of $450 worth of reclaimed lumber from her property.
Moultrie Police
• Kathreen Zeigler, 300 block Ninth Street Southwest, reported Sunday the theft of property valued at $200.
Battery
Moultrie Police
• Ricky Arnold, 54, Moultrie, reported Sunday that a male acquaintance, who demanded $150 that Arnold owed for drugs from several years ago, attacked him at a residence in the 200 block of Second Street Northwest.
Arnold told police that the man shoved him against a wall, choked him and demanded the money. He also threatened to kill him.
A resident at the house who witnessed the incident told police that he was watching the game when Arnold and the other man got into an argument during which Arnold threw a blow and the other man retaliated. They were separated and both then left.
Sheriff’s Office
• Heather Jones, 100 block Miller Avenue, Norman Park, reported Tuesday that during an argument with a male acquaintance he became physical and caused her injuries including a bloody nose and scrapes on her right arm.
Jones told police that the assault occurred at the man’s residence in the 800 block of Cook Road.
The reporting officer will take warrants for the man’s arrest, police said.
Fraud
Sheriff’s Office
• Gabriela Zapote-Roque, 500 block Clarence Jones Road, reported Tuesday that a fraudulent loan for $1,182 was taken out in her husband’s name without authorization.
• Arther Richter, 1200 block U.S. 319 South, reported Tuesday that someone used his bank card to make a fraudulent online purchase for $201.40.
Moultrie Police
• Kelly Casteel, 1800 block West Boulevard, reported Sunday the fraudulent use of a bank card totaling $107.
Other investigations
Moultrie Police
• Chris Barham, 400 block 31st Avenue Southeast, reported Sunday that while he was away from home someone had kicked in the door of his residence.
Barham told police that nothing appeared to be missing.