MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Latina woman on Shady Grove Road may be the latest victim of violent robbers who have plagued Colquitt County in recent months.

Annabelle Cruz was threatened with what she believes was a gun but was not injured, according to Colquitt County Sheriff’s Investigator Ronald Jordan.

Jordan said Cruz had strapped her child into a safety seat in her car about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday outside her residence. She went to get in the driver’s seat and was surprised by a black male, dressed all in black and wearing a ski mask.

The man pressed something into her back that she believed to be a gun, Jordan said, and he demanded money. He took her purse, containing approximately $350.

The child began to cry, and Jordan said Cruz believes that frightened the man away. That’s when she saw a second black man, also dressed all in black with a mask on his face, who was also running away.

Hispanics have been targeted in a series of robberies, including home invasions, dating back at least to late May. The robbers have similar descriptions in all the cases. Shots have been fired during some of the robberies, and victims have been injured either by the shots or by being hit with a gun or the robbers’ fists.

Most recently, the Dollar General Store on Camilla Highway was robbed by four or five gunmen Friday night.

Arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• Holly Lynn Bitter, 29, 346 Pineboro Road, was charged Tuesday with no insurance and driving on a suspended tag.

• Johnny Paul Johnson, 44, 287 Norman Estates, was charged Tuesday on a bench warrant.

Moultrie Police

• Joseph John Prosser, 52, 613 Second St. N.W., was charged Monday with disorderly conduct.

Georgia State Patrol

• Annissa Vernita Collins, 46, 28 First Ave. S.W., was charged Monday with driving on a suspended or revoked license.

Probation violation

Sheriff’s Office

• David Gilbert, 29, of Baconton.

Moultrie Police

• Derick Devon Alford, 28, 155 Minnesota Road, Doerun.

• Maurice Jamal Hill, 28, 1192 Fifth St. S.W.

Thefts

Moultrie Police

• Jocelyn Tiona Huckaby, of Moultrie, reported a burglary Monday at Rosewood Apartments in the 400 block of 31st Street Southeast. The victim of the crime was Oneki Ryshawn Huckaby, police said. Taken were $1,100 in currency and $52 worth of other items.

Sheriff’s Office

• Alisha Fletcher, 2900 block Sardis Church Road, reported Tuesday evening that someone broke the right front window of her 2014 Dodge Journey and stole several items valued at a total of $583.

• Liz Savage, band director at Colquitt County High School, reported Monday that a student’s saxophone, valued at $1,400, was taken the previous week. School officials are investigating, the deputy reported.

• Daniel Wilson, 400 block Doc Lindsey Road, reported Tuesday that someone took the tag off his 2012 Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle.

• Stephanie Summerlin, 1200 block Sumner Road, reported Monday that someone entered her 2008 Buick Enclave in the 2700 block of Highway 33 North and removed a backpack, a laptop, a notebook and an external hard drive. The items were valued at $1,861.

• Willie Walker, 1500 block Cool Springs Road, reported Monday a woman he knows took tools, fishing poles and two gallons of gasoline from his residence. The items were valued at $390, but $90 worth of that was recovered.

• Larry Oliff, 700 block Chapman Road, reported Oct. 12 that a man he knows took a 1984 Honda Goldwing motorcycle and a utility trailer from the residence of Robert Putnam, 500 block Chapman Road, while Putnam was in a rehab facility recovering from an automobile accident. Oliff said the theft happened Oct. 7. The investigating officer found the items at the residence of the man Oliff identified, but the man said he had permission to get them. Putnam had already told the officer he hadn’t given anyone permission to be at his residence.

At the time of the report, the officer did not know whether Putnam intended to press charges.

• Kim Bridwell, 200 block of South Morris Road, reported Monday that while she was at a wedding off Erve Williams Road on Saturday evening, someone entered her 2011 Nissan Maxima and took her medication and $40 from her pocketbook.

• Peggy Taylor Wise, 500 block 26th Avenue Southeast, reported Monday that the license plate was stolen from her 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe within the previous week and a half.

Forgery

Sheriff’s Office

• Sonja Jeanette Allen, 100 block Thompson Road, reported Monday that nine checks were stolen from her residence and cashed at three stores in Moultrie. The amounts on the checks added up to $2,000.

• Jason A. Winkenried, 900 block Sam Rentz Road in Norman Park, told deputies a man he didn’t know asked him for a ride to Bear Creek Monday evening in exchange for $50. Winkenried took the man there, and the man gave him three $20 bills. After they parted, Winkenried examined the money and discovered it was counterfeit.

Violence

Moultrie Police

• Yolanda Head, of Moultrie, reported Monday that a man she knows grabbed her by the neck during an altercation on West Boulevard.

Property damage

Moultrie Police

• Victoria Hendry McNeal, 100 block Fifth Street Southwest, reported Monday that someone threw a rock through a window pane at her residence. She told the officer a rock had broken the bottom pane of glass on her storm door Oct. 5 but she hadn’t reported it at that time. She thinks both incidents might be related to a fight between male juveniles that took place earlier this month on the school bus she drives.

• Carolyn Booth, of Norman Park, reported an apparent break-in attempt Monday in the 1900 block of Second Street Southeast.

Sheriff’s Office

• Brenda Gibson, 200 block Mae Road, called deputies about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday when she heard a banging on a back bedroom window as if someone was trying to break in. The responding officer searched the area and fond a screen pushed out slightly but no other sign of tampering.