MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Moultrie man was arrested after an employee at an auto repair shop returned to work to find the man underneath the hood of a car.

The employee was able to describe the man’s car and give police its license number, and then he could identify Dexter Antwain Snelling from a photo shown to him by an officer, police said. He reported that a throttle body valued at $200 had been taken from the 1997 Nissan Altima where he had seen the man.

Police went to Snelling’s 1317 Hallmark Drive residence, and when officers arrived he admitted taking the throttle body because the one on his 1995 Nissan Maxima was malfunctioning, police reported.

Police charged Snelling with theft by taking and criminal trespass.

In other thefts

• Murphy Oil USA, 505 Veterans Parkway S., reported Saturday that a driver left without paying for $20 worth of gas.

• Merle Hester, 1000 block 10th Street Southeast, reported Saturday the theft of property valued at $301.

• Tavern Wheeler, 500 block Fourth Court Northwest, reported Sunday the theft of a 1990 Ford Ranger pickup truck valued at $400.

• Jacquitter Mordon, 57, Moultrie, reported Saturday the theft of a wallet she misplaced while shopping in the 600 block of Veterans Parkway South. She valued the wallet and contents at $2.

• Kathy Bruchey, 53, Alabama, reported Saturday the theft of a necklace and a carton of cigarettes with a total value of $160 in the 1300 block of Veterans Parkway North.

• Traci Howard, 600 block Fourth Court Northwest, reported Friday that a male acquaintance who borrowed her Huffy bicycle refused to return it when she asked him for it several days later.

She estimated the bike’s value at $40 and said that she had purchased it last year from the same man who borrowed it.

Later in the day, Howard called police to report finding the bicycle in her front yard with a broken chain.

She also reported receiving harassing text messages from a woman who is friends with the man who borrowed the bicycle. One of those messages contained a threat that the woman would come to her job and “beat her up.”

The officer informed Howard of civil remedies through Colquitt County Magistrate Court, police said.

• Breanna Hamilton, 25, Sylvester, reported Friday a 2000 Chevrolet S-10 valued at $3,000 parked in the 100 block of West Central Avenue.

Hamilton told police that she left the key in the ignition of the truck.

Burglary

Moultrie Police

• Moultrie Billiards, 7 First St. N.E., reported Friday the theft of property valued at $798.

• C.L. Roberts, 30 block 12th Street Northwest, reported Sunday the theft of property valued at $196.

Battery

Moultrie Police

• Alycia Sneed, 27, Moultrie, reported Saturday that a former co-worker at her work place in the 700 block of Highway 133 South attacked her as she was getting into her car to go to lunch.

Sneed told police that she had several reported several previous incidents involving the woman to law enforcement.

Courtney Lynette Hall, 31, 496 Hodge King Drive, Ashburn, later called police about the incident and was charged with disorderly conduct. Hall, who was issued a subpoena, told police that she approached Sneed and started to fight.

Fraud

Moultrie Police

• Freddie Ross, 800 block Sixth Street Northwest, reported that $476 in unauthorized charges were made on a credit card.