MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Colquitt County man who was fuzzy about how he ended up in the ditch early Sunday morning was not injured in the accident but was jailed on a drunk-driving charge.

A deputy on patrol at 4:26 a.m. saw a GMC Envoy in the east ditch in the 6000 block of Tallokas Road near its intersection with Cook Road.

When the officer went to the car to investigate he found that it was still in gear and the driver “sleeping heavily” inside and several attempts to wake him did not work.

After placing the car in park and removing the keys, the deputy was able to wake the driver after “multiple attempts using an loud voice and having to physically shake” the driver, who appeared disoriented upon gaining consciousness.

The driver, identified as Manuel Ernesto De Jesus Perez, initially attempted to grab the wheel and gear shift in an apparent attempt to drive away, police said. He was not sure where he was and asked the officer more than once why he had been pulled over.

Perez smelled of alcohol, police said, registered more than double the legal limit for driving on a portable alcohol sensor and was unable to perform field sobriety tests successfully, the officer reported.

Perez, 29, 180 Trailer Park Road, was charged with driving under the influence, open container in vehicle and failure to drive within single lane.

In other arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• Octavio Beccerra Rodriguez, 32, 267 Ashley St., Berlin, was charged Sunday with driving without license and failure to drive within single lane.

• Horace Stanley Martin, 40, 204 Nandina Drive, was charged Saturday with driving without license.

• Emerson Woodrow Jackman, 30, 265 Hopewell Church Road, was charged Friday with defective equipment and possession of marijuana.

• Stacy Bernard Blackwell Jr., 508 Fifth St. S.W., was charged Friday with possession of marijuana.

• Ladow Horace Weaver, 53, 3370 Doerun-Norman Park Road, was charged with criminal trespass.

Doerun Police

• Jamez Simon, 28, 8 Dobbs Drive, Albany, was charged Friday with fleeing or attempting to elude police, failure to stop for stop sign, speeding, failure to yield right-of-way, reckless driving, improper passing and failure to drive within single lane.

Moultrie Police

• Jamesia Bush, 18, 3109 Veterans Parkway S., Apt. C, was charged Sunday with disorderly conduct.

• Jason McCoy Jones, 40, was charged Friday with simple battery and probation violation.

• Leslie Reynolds, 47, 424 Third Ave. N.W., was charged Friday with theft by shoplifting.

Norman Park Police

• Fernando Hernandez, 43, 930 Oquinn Road, Tifton, was charged with driving while license withdrawn and speeding.

Probation violation

Moultrie Police

• Samaad Jihad Carmichael, 24, 1116 N. Tennessee St., Cartersville, Ga.

Sheriff’s Office

• Tiamasha Shaariyah Ponder, 23, 909 W. Madison St., Quitman.

Battery

Sheriff’s Office

• Christina Howard, 700 block Edmondson Road, reported Saturday that a male relative twisted her arm and forced her to the floor.

The relative told police that he was defending himself from Howard. A second relative from the residence and another witness both confirmed his account.

Howard had no visible injuries, police said. She was transported to the hospital by paramedics.

• Blanca Hernandez, 1800 block Sardis Church Road, reported Saturday that a male acquaintance grabbed her and shoved her during an argument over her cell phone.

Hernandez had some bloody scratches on her chest, police said.

Police arrested the man.

• Aimee Halloway, 300 block Sleepy Bear Road, Norman Park, reported Sunday that she was the victim in a family violence incident.

• Casey Conger, 100 block Saturday Lane, Norman Park, reported Sunday that her daughter was attacked on Friday on a school bus.

Thefts

Sheriff’s Office

• Alejandro Malagon reported Friday the theft of a central air conditioner at a vacant residence in the 3500 block of Old Adel Road at which he acts as caretaker.

Two windows, each valued at $100, also were broken but it did not appear that anyone entered the residence, Malagon told police. The air conditioning unit was valued at $2,000.

• Francis Cardova, 2200 block Sylvester Highway, reported Sunday the theft of prescription medicine.

Cardova told police that the medicine was in her purse when she went into a convenience store while a female acquaintance waited in her car. When she got home the medication was gone. The other woman denied taking the medication.

• Julia Beverly, 4000 block Old Doerun Road, reported Friday the theft of an iPhone 7 and case of unknown value at Colquitt County High, 105 Darbyshire Road.

Other investigations

Sheriff’s Office

• Yvonne Brown, 1700 block Sardis Church Road, reported Sunday that a dog bit her while she was exercising in the 800 block of the same road.

Brown suffered a mark to her left leg just above the ankle that was bleeding, police said.

She told police that the medium-sized brindle black and brown dog came into the roadway to bite her. The residents at the house put the dog inside the residence and refused to talk to her until she walked onto their property, at which time the people there, who shouted profanities at her, told her that she had not been bitten and that she was trespassing.

When an officer spoke with people at the residence they denied that their dog bit her and complained about Brown being on their property. When no one could provide proof of rabies vaccination for the dog police called the Moultrie-Colquitt Humane Society, which is to quarantine the dog for 10 days.

Paramedics treated Brown at the scene, police said.

• Torri Durden, 100 block Crum Road, reported Saturday that a male acquaintance damaged her fire pit by striking it with a lawn mower.

The deputy noticed no visible damage to the fire pit.

• Denise Johnson, 100 block Ewer Road, reported Saturday that a male companion took her cell phone after accusing her of taking his wallet.

After Johnson left to call 911 she returned to find that she was locked out of the residence and her boyfriend had left. She was not sure whether the phone was inside or not.