Police ask for public’s help in finding theft suspect

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Moultrie police are searching for a suspect in a number of entering-auto cases who may be tied to additional thefts in the city.

The suspect is identified as Terence Gustavious Grant.

Grant, 28, has been charged with three counts of entering auto and one count of financial transaction card fraud.

“He is a suspect in several theft cases” that could include more than just the three for which warrants already have been taken, said Moultrie Police Department Lt. Freddie Williams.

Police ask that anyone with information about Grant’s whereabouts call (229) 890-5449 during business hours, or after hours Colquitt County 911.

The paths of Grant and law enforcement have crossed a few times, with police arresting him several times in recent years.

Moultrie police charged Grant in June 2017 with charges of burglary, possession of a drug-related object, two counts entering auto, possession of cocaine and theft by taking.

In April 2010 he was arrested after a woman reported that he locked her in her bathroom, refused to allow her to leave and threw the battery from a cell phone across the room when she tried to call for help. He was charged at that time with false imprisonment, simple battery, interference with a 911 call, possession of marijuana and criminal trespass.

Observer records do not indicate the disposition of any of those cases.