MOULTRIE, Ga. — Moultrie police recently responded to three incidents of automobiles being broken into, one of which was discovered by a police officer on patrol, and the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Department investigated one more.

Officer Adam Cope was patrolling the area of the BP gas station, 102 S. Veterans Parkway, about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday when he saw a Chevrolet Trailblazer parked behind the store that appeared to have a broken window. He investigated and found a bunch of papers and things thrown around, and the glove box and center console were open.

Cope said he knew the SUV had been at the station since Jan. 30 because he’d responded to a medical call related to the driver that day. The driver had been taken to Colquitt Regional Medical Center, Cope said, and had indicated a family member would come to get the Trailblazer.

Although Cope knew the name of the driver from his earlier encounter, he was not able to make contact with him, so he was not able to determine if anything was stolen from the vehicle.

A Colquitt County sheriff’s deputy responded about 7:25 a.m. to the 100 block of LB Nevels Road, where Larry Bryan Byrd said someone had stolen his .45-caliber handgun, valued at $600, from his 2017 Ram 1500. Byrd said his mother-in-law’s Ford Explorer was also entered, but he couldn’t identify anything missing from it.

Moultrie police responded at 9:11 a.m. Tuesday to Hospital Park, where Giselle Ivette Pineiro of Moultrie reported someone had broken into her 2015 Dodge Dart over the previous night. Items valued at $3 were taken.

Police responded to a similar report at 10:25 a.m. in the 2600 block of Seventh Street Southeast, where Marcus David Ferrell of Moultrie reported his medication was taken from his friend’s 2017 Honda Civic.

Arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• Christopher Chad Barnes, 31, 1781 Tift County Line Road, Omega, was charged Sunday with burglary.

• Tommy Wayne Brumbley, 24, 379 Indian Creek Subdivision, was charged Tuesday on a bench warrant.

• Scott Millard Bivins, 34, and Stacie Lynn Woods, 43, both of 168 S. Gregory St. in Sale City, were charged with battery (family violence) and cruelty to children in the third degree Tuesday. The responding deputy said they were involved in a domestic dispute with one another in a car on Highway 37 West at Thigpen Trail while Bivins’ 4-year-old daughter was also in the vehicle.

• Justin Benjamin Morey, 33, 198 Grantham Road, Doerun, was charged Tuesday with two counts of deposit account fraud.

• Laycee Lee Mercer, 23, 2720 Sylvester Drive, was charged Monday with obstruction.

• Darin Todd Tillery, 52, 2593 Ellenton-Norman Park Road, Norman Park, was charged Tuesday with theft by deception and theft by receiving stolen property.

Moultrie Police

• Jessica Hardy, 29, was charged Monday with trespass and forgery in the first degree.

• Tony Bernard Coates, 49, 300 Fifth St. S.W., was charged Jan. 31 with two counts of shoplifting and one count of trespass.

Thefts

Sheriff’s Office

• Johnnie E. Jenkins, 200 block Cranford St., Berlin, reported a .22-caliber rifle and a metal detector missing from his residence Monday. The items were valued at a total of $550.

• Genevieve Livingston, 1700 block Coolsprings-Ellenton Road, Norman Park, reported Tuesday that a number of potted plants, lawn ornaments and the front door mat had been taken from her residence overnight. She said some were small, ornamental items she’d purchased from Dollar General, but she was primarily concerned with several that had been hand-made.

Forgery

Moultrie Police

• Elizabeth Ann Longerbone, of Moultrie, who reported Monday that her checkbook was stolen, called police again Tuesday when she learned two checks from it had been cashed in Moultrie — one at Somesh Package Store and the other at Southwest Georgia Bank. The two checks totaled $4,145, in addition to other checks she told police about on Monday that had been cashed out of town and totaled more than $7,100.