Grand jury indicts suspect in November slaying
Published 8:08 pm Tuesday, March 27, 2018
- Eleodoro Perez Perez.
MOULTRIE, Ga. — Violent crimes, including a murder and an armed robbery at a Moultrie discount store, were numerous in recent criminal indictments handed down by a Colquitt County Grand Jury.
Eleodora Perez Perez, 27, is accused in the Nov. 2 slaying of a man whom police described as disabled.
Colquitt County 911 received a call at about 7:40 p.m. that night for medical assistance at the 600 Tree Farm Road residence of Miguel Alvarez Esquivel. Esquivel was legally blind and had other disabling conditions, according to police.
Esquivel had what the Georgia Bureau of Investigation described as a “fresh wound” that was bleeding when medical personnel arrived. At the time the agency did not state whether he had been assaulted with a weapon.
Neighbors were used to people frequently entering the residence to check on Esquivel, so they apparently did not realize immediately that he had been assaulted. The GBI said that some type of confrontation or “incident” occurred that led to the assault.
He was taken to Colquitt Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead later that night.
Police arrested Perez a few days later at his 657 Circle Road residence.
He was indicted on charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault and three counts of possession of a knife during the commission of a crime. The charge of felony murder in Georgia refers to a slaying that takes place during the commission of another felony, in this case the aggravated assault on Esquivel.
Esquivel’s fatal wound was caused by a knife.
Among the other crimes of violence addressed by jurors was the Oct. 13 hold-up of the Camilla Highway Dollar General Store.
Dontavious Tyriq Jenkins, Rafael Spindola Merritt and Isaiah Dishawn Thomas were arrested on Dec. 8 in Thomas County after they crashed their car while being pursued by police.
The car they were in was identified by its tag number in connection with an armed robbery that night at the Pavo Dollar General store. After the car’s occupants ran from the car officers from several agencies set up a perimeter and captured the three men, who remain jailed in Thomas County.
The three, along with Akivie Teryon Bailey, who is being held in Colquitt County, are charged with the October Dollar General robbery in Moultrie. Jenkins was 19 at the time of their arrests, and the other three were 20.
They are accused of holding a store employee at gunpoint and taking cash from the store, as well as holding up a second employee outside in the parking lot.
Each was indicted on charges of: two counts each of kidnapping, false imprisonment, aggravated assault and armed robbery, and seven counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.
In other indictments:
• Christopher Dalton Scott, 21, 1215 Porter St.: conspiracy to commit a crime (armed robbery), armed robbery, aggravated assault and two counts possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
• Tyran Trinidad Montgomery, 19, 3212 Sylvester Drive: conspiracy to commit a crime (armed robbery), armed robbery, aggravated assault and two counts possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
• Raheem Milliner, 20, 925 Barbara Circle: conspiracy to commit a crime (armed robbery), armed robbery, aggravated assault, giving false information to a law enforcement officer, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by first-offender probationer.
• Nathan Alan Stone, 18, 127 Shady Grove Road: conspiracy to commit a crime (false imprisonment), false imprisonment, two counts aggravate assault, two counts possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime.
• Jeremy Cortez Gaines, 19, 187 Church St., Ellenton: conspiracy to commit a crime (false imprisonment), false imprisonment, two counts aggravated assault, two counts possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
• Allison Shanay Lewis: conspiracy to commit a crime (false imprisonment), false imprisonment, two counts aggravated assault, two counts possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
• Alex Jordan Rowe, 25, 1767 Hwy. 133 N.: conspiracy to commit a crime (false imprisonment), false imprisonment, two counts aggravated assault, two counts possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
• Jonathan Shane Kastelic, 28, 1265 Doc Darbyshire Road: two counts aggravated assault (family violence) and false imprisonment.
• Walter O’neal Mitchell, 39, 306 21st Ave. N.E.: two counts terroristic threats and battery.
• Wallace Moulkey, 48, 1330 U.S. Hwy. 319 N.: aggravated assault (family violence) and cruelty to children in the third degree.
• Quantavious Powell, 20, U.S. Highway 319, Norman Park: armed robbery, robbery by intimidation, aggravated assault and kidnapping.
• Clayton Jonathan Bentley, 19, 301 Mill St., Norman Park: armed robbery, robbery by intimidation, aggravated assault and kidnapping.
• Justin Chad Gray, 28, 1121 Myron Hart Road: two counts aggravated battery.
• Miguel Carranza, 22, 380 Honey Bear Road, Norman Park: aggravated battery and possession of a knife during the commission of a felony.
• Patricia Ann King, 53, 887 Jonah Tillman Road: two counts cruelty to children in the first degree, two counts cruelty to children in the second degree.
• Timothy Wayne Gaskins, 53, 124 W.E. Hart Road, Berlin: aggravated assault (family violence), possession of a knife during the commission of a felony, aggravated assault, battery (family violence) and terroristic threats.
• Margaret Leighann Dell: aggravated assault and battery.
• Bryan Alexander Pinoth-Granados, also known as Alexander Granados, 18, 710 Myrtle Lane: armed robbery, aggravated assault and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime.
• Randall Lamar Kent, 51, 61122 Elliott Drive, Albany: rape and two counts exploitation and intimidation of disabled adult, elder person, or resident.
• Michael Scott Cook, 48,1930 Third St. S.E.: exploitation and intimidation of disabled adult, elder person, or resident.