MOULTRIE, Ga. — Overturned clothing racks and alarmed customers and employees apparently were the only casualties Tuesday from a suspect who tried to escape police first by car and then on foot.

At about 2:52 p.m. Tuesday an officer spotted a Chrysler 300 being driven recklessly on Eighth Street Southeast.

“I attempted to conduct a traffic stop and he fled,” said Sgt. Justin Lindsay of the Moultrie-Colquitt County Drug Enforcement Team. “A vehicle pursuit took place.”

The driver continued driving recklessly through the shopping center parking lot where Roses is located on Sixth Street Southeast before exiting the car, Lindsay said.

“He ended up abandoning the car right at the front door of Roses and ran inside,” he said. “He ended up knocking clothes racks over. He (then) ran out of the store and down the sidewalk and into Save-A-Lot (grocery).”

The man ran out a back door of the grocery and into the Moultrie Housing Authority apartment complex behind the store, where officers caught up with him and took him into custody, police said.

Police identified the suspect as Cedric Tirise Barge, 21, 1201 Sixth Ave. N.W. A search turned up two prescription pills on him, Lindsay said, and he was wanted on an assault charge from a 2017 domestic violence incident.

Barge was charged with fleeing or attempting to elude police officer, obstruction of a police officer, failure to stop for stop sign, driving without a license, reckless driving, possession of a Schedule IV substance and drugs to be kept in original container.

He also was charged on outstanding warrants charging him with aggravated assault and probation violation.

The assault charge stems from a June 25, 2017, incident in which Barge is accused of choking My’quesha Spradley in the 7100 block of Ninth Avenue Southeast.

In other arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• Rebecca Leanna Clark, 26, 4077 Old Doerun Road, was charged Wednesday with simple battery.

• Markel Jamal Harper, 23, 1702 W. Avalon St., Albany, was charged Wednesday with speeding and driving without license.

Moultrie Police

• Brandi Nicole Jenkins, 34, 2609 Seventh St. S.E., was charged Wednesday with possession of a controlled substance.

Probation violation

Sheriff’s Office

• Ladarrian Dominique Simpson, 26, 610 First Ave. N.W.

• Esteban Obregon, 42, 711 New Market Road, Immokalee, Fla.

• Wanna Lee Hightower, 28, 164 Oak Crest, Tallahassee.

Moultrie Police

• Kenneth Dusty Moore, 34, 859 Old Berlin Road.

• Alyssa Adams, 32, 507 Patrol Road, Forsyth, Ga.

Family violence

Sheriff’s Office

• Heather Hutchinson, 100 block B. Allman Road, reported Wednesday that a male companion attempted to run over her in a car, banged her head against a wall and chased her with a metal stick.

Hutchinson had no visible injuries, police said. She did not want to press charges.

• Robbie Myrick, 222 Grizzly Bear Road, Norman Park, reported Wednesday that a male relative threatened him with a knife.

Myrick, told police that the man was arguing with Charlynn Clayton and pushed her when he went into their bedroom to assist her.

Michael Strickland, who lives at the residence, told police that Myrick, his nephew, was in the bedroom and he told him to get out. There was no physical contact and he did not threaten his nephew with a knife, he reported, and he was looking for his girlfriend’s phone, not arguing with her.

Strickland had two folding pocket knives in his pockets, police said. Myrick and his girlfriend reported that Strickland pulled a knife on him and told him to “get out or he was going to use the knife.”

Police arrested Strickland and charged him with simple assault.