MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Moultrie man was knocked unconscious when an acquaintance, who claimed the victim owed him money, hit him in the back of the head in a Friday evening assault.

Ricky Lee Arnold, 53, was bleeding when he arrived at his residence in the 200 block of Second Avenue Northwest, a witness told police. He asked people not to call police and went inside to lie down.

About an hour later, at 7 p.m., someone called police, but Arnold refused to speak with an officer before emergency medical personnel took him to Colquitt Regional Medical Center.

At the hospital, Arnold, who police said was intoxicated, told the officer that the attack occurred after he visited some people at a home near his residence. A man there asked Arnold about $45 Arnold owed him for marijuana.

Arnold reported that he and a witness told the man, whose name Arnold told the officer he could not recall, that Arnold already had paid the $45.

As he was walking home the man approached him from behind and hit him in the back of the head with an unknown object, Arnold reported, causing him to lose consciousness “for a little while.”

Arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• Stephanie Lee Cowart, 39, 845 Tillman Road, was charged Monday with failure to appear.

• Kaye Nicole Kimbrell, 36, 352 T. Davis Road, Hartsfield, was charged Sunday with criminal trespass.

• Tabitha Danielle Weeks, 22, 832 Cox Dairy Road, was charged Monday with eight counts misdemeanor forgery.

Moultrie Police

• Christopher Yon Brannon, 39, 506 Ninth St. S.W., was charged Monday with criminal trespass.

Georgia State Patrol

• David Charles Thomas, 35, 111 Lake Linden Drive, Bluffton, S.C., was charged Monday with driving while license withdrawn.

Probation violation

Sheriff’s Office

• Tequila Michelle Raymond, 31, 459 Merritt Road, Hartsfield.

• Charles Kinsey Jr., 27, 418 10th Ave. N.W.

Berlin Police Department

• Terrance Jannon Long, 124 Lynch St., Norman Park.

Thefts

Moultrie Police

• Greg Strother, 100 block Ninth Street Southwest, reported Monday the theft of a mail box valued at $15.

Strother told police that he later found the mail box at the corner of Second Avenue and Ninth Street Southeast. The mail box post was pulled from the ground during the night and Strother said he does not know whether any mail was taken from the box.

• Florence Blakcom, 24, Norman Park, reported Monday the theft of a Verizon-issued cell phone valued at $769 that was taken while she was in the 700 block of Highway 133 South.

Entering auto

Moultrie Police

• Amber Adderton, 1400 block 11th Street Southwest, reported Monday that someone entered her 2009 Pontiac G6, taking $60 worth of clothing, $60 in cash and other property valued at $5.

• Brook Molton, 1100 block West Boulevard, reported Monday the theft of property valued at $559 from a 2012 Chevrolet Traverse.

• Lisa Chambers-Owen, 1200 block 10th Street Southwest, reported Monday that someone entered a 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid.

Nothing was reported stolen.

Fraud

Sheriff’s Office

• John Henry Williams, 2000 block County Line Road, Doerun, reported Monday that someone wrote three fraudulent checks, totaling $270, on his checking account.

Property damage

Moultrie Police

• Quanika Singletary, 400 block 30th Street Southeast, reported Monday an incident of property damage.

Other investigations

• A stolen 2014 Toyota Camry was recovered on Monday in the 200 block of Cranford Street, Berlin.

A deputy was dispatched to the site at 9:53 a.m. Monday. The car was valued at $12,000.

Mary Lassetter, 2900 block Sylvester Drive, reported the car stolen on Nov. 30.