By Alan Mauldin

alan.mauldin@gaflnews.com

MOULTRIE — A handicapped Moultrie man reported being attacked in his residence on Friday by a woman who also stole his cell phone.

Bruce Bowman, 56, of the 100 block of Fourth Street Southwest, told Moultrie police that the female acquaintance entered his residence shortly after midnight on Friday, “jumped on me and beat the hell out of me.” During the incident the woman reportedly hit him in the head.

The woman took his LG Touch Screen phone, valued at $15, before leaving, Bowman reported.

Bowman had no visible injuries, police said. An officer locked his door because Bowman is handicapped and was unable to reach the door.

Officers searched for the woman in the area but did not find her.

In other violence

Moultrie Police

• Joshua Ryan Clifton, 21, Moultrie, reported Sunday that he was attacked at 4 p.m. in the 600 block of First Street Southeast.

Sheriff’s Office

• Heather Tucker, 3100 block Kendalwood Church Road, reported Thursday that a male relative pushed her to the ground and hit her in the head multiple times before driving away.

A deputy went to the residence of the man’s father, who told police that after parking his car in the back yard his son ran into a wooded area. The deputy searched the woods but did not locate him.

Tucker had redness and swelling to the back of her neck, police said, but she refused treatment from emergency medical personnel.

Arrests

Sheriff’s Office

• Carl Jeffery Cook, 53, 1457 Old Albany Road, was charged Friday with cruelty to children.

Moultrie Police

• Vivian Irene Collier, 59, 2605 Sixth St. S.E., was charged Saturday with theft by shoplifting.

She is accused of stealing food valued at $13 at Save-A-Lot, 205 Sixth St. S.E.

• Abe Gordon, 55, 820 Northside Drive Apt. 3, was charged Thursday with simple battery.

• Tonya Renee McMurphy, 34, 3509 Doerun-Norman Park Road, was charged Friday with theft by shoplifting.

She is charged with shoplifting merchandise valued at $39 at Wal-Mart, 604 Veterans Parkway S.

Georgia State Patrol

• Stargell Quintrell Washington, 35, 1611 Old Pelham Road, Pelham, was charged Saturday with open container in vehicle, expired vehicle tag or decal, driving without license, failure to drive within single lane, leaving the scene of an accident and no insurance.

Norman Park Police

• Thomas Ambers Murphy, 52, 1219 Bay Road, was charged Friday with driving with suspended or revoked license.

Probation violation

Moultrie Police

• Horace Stanley Martin, 38, 402 Nandina Drive.

• Eric Shawn Mitchell, 23, 355 J.O. Stewart Road, Norman Park.

Sheriff’s Office

• Tony Sherrod Hayes, 43, 715 Seventh St. N.W.

Burglary

Moultrie Police

• Oxley’s, 11 Eighth Ave. N.E., reported Friday the theft of merchandise valued at $522.

Police were alerted to the break-in by a burglar alarm.

• Michael Duncan, 600 block First Street Southeast, reported Saturday the theft of property valued at $5.

Thefts

Sheriff’s Office

• Margarito Martinez, 800 block Ellis May Road, reported Friday the theft of an Onn DVD player, compact discs and case, fanny pack, wallet, $250 and ignition key for a Chrysler minivan with a total value of $911.

• Danny Jackson, 100 block South Church Road, Funston, reported Friday that someone stole his Beretta Tomcat pistol, valued at $500, taken while he was at his mother’s funeral visitation.

• Melvin Wacaser, 300 block Ellenton-Bingham Road, Ellenton, reported Sunday the theft of a weed trimmer that he later learned had been pawned at a business in Moultrie.

Wacaser told police that a male acquaintance agreed to repair the Troy-Bilt trimmer in trade for an old four-wheeler. When he tried to retrieve the weed trimmer, the man told him that his ex-girlfriend had set a fire that destroyed it.

While in Moultrie, he reported, a man he does not know asked whether he was Melvin and whether he had a weed trimmer. The man then told him that it had been sold at a pawn shop in town and the name of the person who sold it, who was not the same person Wacaser had enlisted to fix it.

Moultrie Police

• Analisha Hill, 29, Moultrie, reported Friday the theft of a temporary tag of unknown value that was removed from a 1998 Ford Expedition in the 400 block of Veterans Parkway North.

• Vickie Cravey, 200 block Nandina Drive, reported Saturday the theft of her grandson’s Nintendo 3DS game system valued at $189.

Cravey told police that the game system was stolen in January and that a friend notified her on Friday that it had been sold at a Moultrie pawn shop.

• Robert Adkins, 600 block Fourth Avenue Southwest, reported Saturday the theft of a bag valued at $1.