Four youths were where they shouldn’t have been Thursday and almost got charged with something they didn’t do.

Greg Yarbrough, 500 block Rondo Gay Road, told Colquitt County deputies he saw the four juveniles at a vacant house owned by his mother. They got into a red Jeep and left, and Yarbrough said he followed them to a house on Wilburn Murphy Road.

Deputies told Yarbrough to check the vacant house, where he found windows broken and holes in the drywall. Copper wiring had been ripped out and stolen.

Further investigation, however, found that the damage was old. A spider had built a web in one of the broken windows. The boys said only one of them had actually entered the house, and that one admitted he did. They all said they’d been there only about 45 seconds when Yarbrough saw them.

Yarbrough decided not to file criminal trespassing charges against the youths. They were warned and their parents notified.

Arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• Tyron Alexander Stewart, 35, Tallahassee, Fla., was charged Thursday with probation violation.

• Jacob Lee Shockley, 25, Leesburg, was charged with armed robbery and possession of a firearm or knife during the commission of a crime.

• Johnny Ben Sims, 44, Sylvester, was charged with probation violation.

Moultrie Police

• Sharonda Lartez Corbin, 40, Tifton, was charged Thursday with probation violation.

• Steven Ray Miller Jr., 17, 1413 Hutchinson Drive, was charged Thursday with fleeing or attempting to elude police, driving without a license, and two counts of failure to stop at a stop sign.

• Tammy Lynn Carter, 49, 210 31st Ave. N.E., was charged Thursday with pedestrian under the influence, violation of the Georgia Controlled Substances Act, drugs must be kept in original container and possession of a drug-related object.

Assaults

Moultrie Police

• Amalia Ramos, of Moultrie, told police Thursday her boyfriend was upset because he said her kids cried too much. They argued about it as they drove to their workplace, National Beef, where he punched her in the face. Ramos suffered a bruise to her left cheek, police said.

Froilaw Garcia Lopez, 30, of Greenfield Church Road, was charged with battery (famly violence). Lopez said he had extended his arm but had not intended to hit Ramos.

• Brandy Barnes, Fourth Court Northwest, told police Friday a male acquaintance had arrived at her apartment about 1 a.m. She said she walked downstairs to a friend’s apartment to avoid an argument. After an hour and a half of waiting in the apartment, he came down to where she was, she said. She said he asked her to come back upstairs where they could talk, but she refused. She said after that, he punched her in the mouth with his fist, injuring her upper lip, and he took her cell phone before he left.

Burglary

Moultrie Police

• Hugh Ward told police Thursday that someone had broken into his neighbor’s house, 216 11th Ave. S.E., between March 1 and Thursday.

Ward said he saw a red Mercury Cougar turn into the driveway of the house, then leave as soon as the driver saw him in the neighborhood; he said the trunk of the car would not shut.

Police checked the residence and found a damaged air conditioner on the outside and a broken sliding door entering the house. Inside, the officer could not tell if there was damage or anything stolen, but he saw footprints in the dust on the floor, proving someone had been in the house.

The officer’s report said the house is owned by a bank, but no contact information was available.

Thefts

Sheriff’s office

• Dorsey Smith, 1500 block 11th Street Southwest, told deputies someone stole copper from the water heater and bathroom at a building he owns at 1714 Holmes Drive.

Moultrie Police

• Tanshanika Toomer, 700 block 10th Avenue Northwest, reported Thursday that a man she knew took her cell phone, valued at $110.

• A man at Kangaroo Express placed four chocolate bars in his shirt pocket Monday, but when confronted by the clerk he put them back.

• Michael Chafin, farm manager at Sunbelt Expo, reported Saturday that an AM/FM radio was taken from one of the Expo’s farm tractors. While police were investigating this theft, Chafin noticed a second tractor, this one owned by AimTrac, had also been broken into and the radio stolen. Each radio was valued at $500.

• During a review of pawn sheets from local pawn shops March 9, a Moultrie police officer discovered an iPod that had been reported stolen in Tallahassee, Fla.

• Joyce A. Zarinana, of Moultrie, told police March 9 that someone had taken money on several occasions from her bank account.

Property damage

Sheriff’s office

• Noe Sanchez, 700 block Jonah Tillman Road, reported Nov. 3 that some juveniles broke the windows out of two vehicles in a field. Damage was estimated ato $2,500, but Sanchez said the juveniles and their parents had agreed to pay for the damage.

On Tuesday, Sanchez notified the sheriff’s office that the juveniles had failed to pay for the damage.

Other incidents

Sheriff’s office

• Gricelda Bustamente, 700 block McElroy Road, told deputies early Friday that a 1994 GMC Sierra pickup was repossessed from her without cause.

While Bustamente said she owned the truck, the man who repossessed it said he had a title that said it belonged to Dorotea Garcia Mezquitte. He said Mezquitte told him a woman was supposed to have paid her for the truck but had not, and she wanted the truck back.

The deputy ran the vehicle identification number through the state’s computer system, which said the title is in Mezquitte’s name.