Tennessee teens charged in case that led to school lockdown

Published 9:14 pm Monday, February 20, 2017

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Two Tennessee teen-agers, whose abandonment of a reportedly stolen car led to a Thursday lockdown at Norman Park Elementary School, were charged with felony theft.

A Norman Park police officer noticed the car in the city and made a traffic stop. When the car came to a rest, two people jumped out and ran into the woods.

As a precaution, officials at Colquitt County Schools put the school on lockdown between 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. with all exterior doors locked and students kept in their classes. The lockdown lasted less than an hour, Schools Superintendent Doug Howell told The Observer on Thursday, and students were dismissed at the normal time after police told them it was OK to do so.

After a search of several hours by officers from multiple agencies using search dogs, police found the hiding places of Jason Christopher Dillon and Dylan Michael Liner.

Dillon, 18, 4807 South Lake Highway, McDonald, Tenn., and Liner, 17, 1104 Keith Valley Road S.E., Cleveland, Tenn., were each charged with felony theft by receiving stolen property.

Police also charged Dillon with fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer and speeding.

In other arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• Varshikka Serrell Collier, 37, 1957 Sylvester Hwy. Lot 40, was charged Sunday with two counts deposit account fraud.

• Lisa Johnson, 37, 728 Hurst Road, Hartsfield, was charged Sunday with violation of family-violence court order.

Police arrested her after Michael Johnson, her estranged husband, reported that she was at his residence in violation of a court order and had destroyed some of his property.

Lisa Johnson and a third family member denied that she had damaged any of Michael Johnson’s property.

• Maurice Antwon Smith, 33, 1703 Wood Bend Drive, Stone Mountain, was charged Friday with failure to appear.

• Calvin Ray Simpson Jr., 29, 205 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, was charged Friday with giving false information or false name to police officer.

• Lindsey Horne, 27, 422 Peachtree Road, Berlin, was charged Wednesday with simple battery.

• Thelma Diane Griffin, 46, 775 Mount Sinai Road, Doerun, was charged Wednesday with fugitive from justice.

• Mary Lee Starnes, 36, 330 S. Railroad St., Norman Park, was charged Wednesday with forgery and failure to appear.

Moultrie Police

• Willie Lee Coston Jr., 38, 502 Hillcrest Ave., was charged Sunday with driving while license suspended and no license plate.

• Joseph Sesler, 35, 703 Seventh Ave. N.W. Apt. B, was charged Friday with driving too fast for conditions, failure to stop at scene of accident and driving without license.

Two sheriff’s deputies witnessed an accident at 11:37 a.m. in which a driver of a 2000 Chevrolet Silverado ran away after rear-ending a 1999 Dodge Durango at the intersection of North Main Street and Ninth Avenue Northwest.

The deputies found Sesler hiding in some bushes at First Street and Ninth Avenue Northwest, Moultrie police said, and took him to Colquitt County Jail.

• William Richard Gandy, 59, 1160 R.L. Norman Road, Norman Park, was charged Friday with criminal trespass.

• Michael Browne Gay, 48, 1620 Cypress Lane, was charged Thursday with public drunk and criminal trespass.

Police arrested Gay after his neighbor Eva Davis called about someone knocking on her door at 11:15 p.m.

• Geoffrey Demond Lewis, 30, 1323 First Ave. N.W., was charged Thursday with harassing phone calls and probation violation.

• Wallace Reid Hudson, 46, 118 12th St. N.W., was charged Feb. 14 with simple battery, failure to appear and giving false information or false name to police officer.

Norman Park Police

• Ishmel Raphael Stevenson, 25, 185 Medders Drive, Omega, was charged Sunday with no insurance and driving while license suspended.

• Delia Elizabeth Gregory, 37, 255 Broad St., Norman Park, was charged Thursday with battery.

Probation violation

• Sheriff’s Office

• Angela Renee Allen, 36, 409 Seminole Drive.

Moultrie Police

• Jonathan Whitney Robie, 1215 Old Doerun Road.

Animal attacks livestock

• Joel Sifuentes, 300 block Dean Matthews Road, reported Thursday that two dogs killed eight goats and injured three others.

Two dogs found in the 100 block of Ortiz Lane were identified as those who killed the livestock and the Humane Society of Colquitt County seized them.

Property damage

Sheriff’s Office

• Javier Alfonso, 1700 block Holmes Drive, reported Feb. 13 that a driver struck his 2008 Nissan 350Z while parked at the Colquitt County High School parking lot.

• Grady Wool, 400 block Greenfield Church Road, reported Thursday that a driver struck his 2014 while parked in the 500 block of Lane Street.