MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Colquitt County government employee accused on Friday of trying to force a female friend to have sex with him was released from the county’s employment the same day.

A 50-year-old woman told police that Julius Wayne Sinquefield invited her over to have a drink on Thursday night at his 409 Sixth Ave. N.W. residence. Both she and Sinquefield, 61, were intoxicated at around 5 a.m. Friday when officers arrived, police said.

“Alcohol was a factor,” Moultrie Police Department Lt. Raul Leal said. “(This) happened in front of a house where a vehicle was parked. He reportedly was forcing her clothes off. He wanted to have sex, and she didn’t.”

At some time the subject of sex came up and the woman told Green that “she respected married couples and their residence,” according to the Moultrie Police Department. She ran outside, but Sinquefield chased her down and carried her back to the house, where she was able to call the Colquitt County 911 Center.

Telling her story at the Colquitt Regional Medical Center emergency room, where she was taken for treatment, she told police that Sinquefield picked her up, threw her on the hood of a car and started pulling her clothes off.

While there an officer asked the woman about a $5 bill that Sinquefield told police he gave to her. She said she never received any money and that Sinquefield dropped the money during the struggle.

After her release from the hospital, police took her to The Haven in Valdosta and that organization notified police that no sex act occurred during the incident, following an interview with the woman.

Sinquefield was taken to Colquitt County Jail, where during the booking process an officer spotted a bag on him containing suspected marijuana.

Police charged him with criminal attempt to commit rape and possession of marijuana.

“He left our employ on the 12th,” said John Peters Jr., head of the Colquitt County Department of Human Resources.

Sinquefield worked at the county mechanical shop for a little more than nine years, Peters said.