MOULTRIE, Ga. — Mowing the lawn on a muggy June day in south Georgia is miserable enough, but it’s even tougher when the one doing the work is attacked by a man with a stick who is also wielding a machete.

That was the situation that confronted a Colquitt County man Tuesday morning.

Florencio Ruiz showed up at the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office at about 10:22 a.m. after a visit to the hospital.

Through a friend who interpreted for him, Ruiz reported that while cutting grass in the 800 block of Doc Darbyshire an acquaintance approached and began hitting him with a stick.

When the assailant brandished the machete another man intervened and prevented him from attacking Ruiz. That man took Ruiz to the hospital.

Ruiz had bruises on the left side of his body and ribs, police said. The officer was unable to read the hospital papers Ruiz had because they were written in Spanish.

Ruiz told police that he did not know why the man, whose name he provided to the officer, attacked him. He was able to give the man’s address, but when police went there they did not make contact with him.

In other attacks

Sheriff’s Office

• Rafeal Calletano, 600 block Circle Road, reported Saturday that someone hit him in the face with a chair.

Deputies were dispatched at 11:55 p.m. to the 600 block of Circle Road to investigate a report of several people fighting.

Calletano told police he did not know the name of the man who hit him but that he lived a close distance to his residence.

Calletano was treated at Colquitt Regional Medical Center, police said.

• Miguel Carranza, 300 block Honey Bear Road, Norman Park, reported Saturday that a female relative hit him in the face with a pillow while he was asleep.

Araceil Pena, of the same address, told police that she was struck with a television remote control after she hit Carranza with the pillow.

Neither wanted to pursue charges in the incident, police said.

• Kelli McMurphy, 800 block R.L. Norman Road, Norman Park, reported Sunday that she was the victim of an incident of battery in a domestic dispute with a male companion.

Arrests

Moultrie Police

• Jimmy Ray Carter, 62, 246 Honey Bear Road, Norman Park, was charged Monday with driving under the influence (test refused) and open container in vehicle.

• Mario Ison, 39, 107 Fleming St., Thomasville, was charged Saturday with simple battery.

• Cleo Burkes Jr., 61, 1101 Fourth Ave. S.E., was charged Thursday with theft by taking and obstruction of a police officer.

• Osmel Ayala Cruz, 34, 150 Quail Lane, was charged Sunday with driving under the influence and failure to drive within single lane.

• Jose Manuel Garcia, 30, 153 Ortiz Lane, was charged Friday with driving without license and expired vehicle tag or decal.

• Crystal Lecole Spivey, 36, 601 13th Ave. S.W., was charged Sunday with theft by shoplifting and violation of mandatory compulsory school attendance.

Sheriff’s Office

• Christopher Bernard Hayes Jr., 23, 624 Ninth Ave. S.E., was charged Monday with two counts rape, two counts child molestation and one count sodomy.

• Jason Scott Stanaland, 38, 136 Cox Ave., was charged Thursday with battery and two counts cruelty to children in third degree.

• Theresa Dawn Chastain, 33, 7178 Hwy. 37 W., Hartsfield, was charged Thursday with possession of methamphetamine.

 • Crystal Dawn Conger, 22, 599 Clarence Jones Road, was charged Thursday with possession of marijuana and theft by taking.

• Jose G. Garcia, 27, 105 George St., Enigma, was charged with battery.

• Carlos Omar Villeda, 20, 376 Lane Road, was charged Sunday with operating restrictions violation and driving without license.

Berlin Police

• Damon Marlin Rudd, 24, 129 Vision St., Albany, was charged Monday with driving without license and leaving the scene of an accident.

Georgia State Patrol

• Jakeria Meshae Henry, 23, 115 Old Doerun Road, was charged Friday with driving while license suspended.

Probation violation

Sheriff’s Office

• Patricia Murphy, 38, 285 Oak Grove Church Road, Hartsfield.

• Vera Elizabeth Morris, 34, 1101 14th St. S.E.

• Willie D. King, 30, 3738 Old Macon Road, Forsyth.

• James Edward Young, 56, 104 Coffee Road, Douglas.

Moultrie Police

• Clayton Morgan Brooks, 20, 14200 Hwy. 93, Baconton.

• Alisha Rebecca Croy, 29, 1355 James Buckner Road.

Berlin Police

• Kanisha Abril Murphy, 224 Dorothy St.

Bench warrant

Sheriff’s Office

• George Robbert Fielder, 54, 1554 Ponder Trammell Road, Juliet, Ga.

Accountability Court violation

• Russell Colin Roberts, 38, 1996 Ellenton-Omega Road, Norman Park.

Burglary

Sheriff’s Office

• John Carter Jr., 200 block North Lakeshore Road, reported Saturday the theft of firearms valued at $5,100 and $3 worth of other property during a burglary of the residence and from a 2018 Toyota Tundra and a 2016 Chevrolet Malibu.

• Laquaila Walker, 100 block Rossman Dairy Road, reported Saturday the theft of a Samsung 70-inch flat screen television, a Roku 62-inch television and a Samsung tablet computer with a total value of $1,400.

• Oppatrina Johnson, 200 block Selena Road, reported Monday the theft of electronics valued at $2,800.

• Jerry Scarborough, 500 block Clarence Jones Road, reported Sunday the theft of eight amplifiers and three crates containing shoes and blankets for which the value was not known and a dual compact disc player valued at $40.

Thefts

Sheriff’s Office

• Terry Clark, 1500 block First Street Southeast, reported Monday the theft of a cabbage trailer and 16 pallets with a total value of $10,100.

• Dollar General, 214 Chafin St., reported Saturday that a shoplifter stole two packs of white T-shirts, a bottle of body wash and a bottle of body lotion with a total value of $20.

The thief ran out the front door with the merchandise in a plastic shopping basket and left in a white Cadillac, an employee told police.

Entering auto

Sheriff’s Office

• Zack McQueen, 200 block Holly Trail, reported Saturday that a firearm valued at $400 and other property valued at $100 were taken from a 2007 Ford F-150.

• Sumner James, 100 block Lakespring Drive, reported Sunday the theft of property valued at $175 from a vehicle.

Trespass

Sheriff’s Office

• Beverly Suggs, of West Bethel Avenue, reported Sunday that someone broke into a shed at her residence.

Suggs told police nothing was taken, but the roll-up door was damaged.

Disorderly conduct

Sheriff’s Office

• Bobby Grant, 12800 block Highway 122, Barney, reported Saturday that a female acquaintance made threats to a woman who was a passenger in his car.

The incident occurred at a gas station in the 5800 block of Highway 133 South, Grant told police.

• Janice Mitchell, 100 block Edmondson Road, reported Monday that a male acquaintance became hostile when she confronted him about being on her property.

Mitchell told police that she previously told the teen-ager to stay away from her property.

Property damage

Sheriff’s Office

• James Montgomery, 1900 block Highway 37 East, reported Saturday when a friend arrived at his residence to give him a ride a neighbor made an accusation against them.

As Brandon Pena was driving them away the man struck the 2002 Nissan Sentra with a pipe, denting the hood and breaking a rear window.

When police were dispatched to the same location later to a report of the man arguing with Montgomery an officer arrested the man on a charge of criminal trespass.