Blotter!
Friday, August 15, 2003
You have to admire his work ethic
Arrest: On Aug. 8, deputy Marvin Williams was traveling on the U.S. Highway 441 bypass about 11:35 p.m. when he spotted some metal grates laying in the road. He pulled over and moved the grates when he saw a vehicle traveling southbound in the northbound lane. Williams stopped the car and the man, James Henry Brown, 55, of Colham Ferry Road, said he was looking for some grates that had fallen off his vehicle. ''I have to find those grates,'' Brown said, saying they were needed for a family barbecue at Harris Shoals Park. Williams smelled alcohol on Brown and informed him he was being arrested. ''You taking me to jail?'' Williams said the man asked. Upon saying yes, the man replied, ''Then you have to find those grates and get them to the park.'' Brown also was charged with having an open container of alcohol and driving on the wrong side of the road.
Thursday, July 31, 2003
Crackheads have to eat too
Theft: On July 22, a woman reported to deputy T.D. Kirkham her son came to her house and, without permission, took some ground beef, pork chops and hot dogs, all valued at $16, and took them to a crack house. The suspect told Kirkham his mother was mean to him and he didn't take the meat.
It's subjective, really
Arrest: About 1 a.m. July 27, deputy Ralph Kanouff was patrolling U.S. Highway 78 when he followed a vehicle to the rear of T's Corner. He observed the driver get out and begin urinating. Kanouff asked Troy Brock, 62, of Winder how much he had been drinking and Brock replied, ''too much.'' He was charged with DUI.
Whatever makes you think that?
Arrest: On July 26 at about 10:25 p.m., a man driving a truck for Norman Trucking Co. of Lawtey, Fla., reported a Ford Explorer struck the rear of his truck on Epps Bridge Road. The man said the driver of the Explorer told him, ''This ain't no big deal. Let's just go on.'' The truck driver wanted to wait for police to arrive, but the man left the scene. A lookout was posted for the Explorer and deputy Rex Matthews spotted an Explorer with a heavily damaged front end and flat tire in Pinewood South Mobile Home Park. The driver was seated at the wheel asleep. Deputy Marvin Williams arrived and awoke the driver who told the deputy that he was OK and didn't know anything about an accident. Williams asked the man if he had been drinking and the man replied, ''Whatever makes you think that.'' Williams read the Miranda rights to Fred Hill Beck, 71, of Epps Bridge Road and Beck, who began acting belligerent, declined to make a statement. He was charged with DUI.
THIS STUFF CURES EVERYTHING!
Athens man cut in fight
A South Finley Street man suffered a cut during a dispute at the corner of West Broad Street and West Hancock Avenue at about 9:15 p.m. Sunday, Athens-Clarke police said.
While being interviewed at St. Mary's Hospital, the man said he had been injured while trying to break up an argument between two acquaintances, police said.
The victim, who suffered a cut on his right arm from what he described as a ''silver instrument,'' refused to submit to further questioning by officers, police said.
He told the officers, ''I just need to go burn some bud, and I'll be OK,'' according to police.
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Did I call at a bad time?
Arrests: On July 6, deputy Barry Mallek was patrolling in Bogart about 1 a.m. when he observed a car drive through a stop sign at Burson Street. He stopped the car and spoke with the driver, later identified as Christopher A. Elder, 32, of Stonehenge Way, Bogart. Elder told Mallek his name was Earnest. Mallek also observed a passenger, Scotty Jamon Hawk, 17, of Old Monroe Road, place an object in the crevice of the car seat. Because Mallek became concerned about weapons on Elder and his two passengers, assistance was requested and deputies Byron Smith and Shane Partain arrived to help search the men.
The deputies found a bottle with suspected crack cocaine on Derrick Donta Nowell, 23, of Stonehenge Way. A paper towel was retrieved from the crevice of the seat and 15 Hydrocodone tablets were found inside, which Elder said belonged to his mother. Elder was charged with possessing the drugs, and both Nowell and Hawk were charged with possessing cocaine with intent to distribute and simple possession of marijuana.
While the arrests were occurring, Nowell's cell phone began ringing. Partain answered the phone and a guy said, ''Is this Duke?'' The man then said he needed a ''dime.'' Partain told the caller he was a deputy and Duke was being arrested, at which time the man replied, ''Bull s--, just bring me my stuff.'' He then hung up. Another call then came in. Deputy Smith answered and the guy said, ''I need a forty sack.'' The man told Smith that he would meet him at the bowling alley and that he would be in a gray Lumina. Smith then called police in Athens and told them what was going on. A short time later, the man called back and said, ''There are too many police up here at the bowling alley. Where can I meet you?'' Smith told him to go to a car wash on Atlanta Highway. Deputies Mallek and Smith later observed a gray car pull into the car wash and they pulled in behind it and blocked the car. A passenger got out with a cell phone in one hand and a knife in the other. The female driver told deputies she was taking her passenger to meet a friend and she didn't know what was going on. The suspect, Christopher Robyn Rowan, 19, of Ivywood Drive, Athens, was arrested on a charge of conspiracy to commit a crime.
Monday, June 03, 2002
Hey! I'm not your ashtray!
*smack*
Oh by god! U boke by doze!
A nightclub fight Sunday morning between a female couple in downtown Athens left a bystander with a broken nose and a cigarette burn, according to witnesses' statements in a police report.
One of the women admitted to officers that she and her girlfriend started fighting in the bar early Sunday morning and the fight eventually worked its way onto Foundry Street, according to a police report.
A man who was sitting in the bar during the fight said one of the woman put a cigarette out on his face. When he said something in response to the burning, the other woman in the fight punched him in the face, breaking his nose.
The accused women denied attacking the man, but a witness said he observed one of the women punch the man.
Wednesday, May 08, 2002
Wasted by 8:30?! I remember being that young.....
Some bar is going to catch hell.
Wait! Being caught hanging here just isn't embarrassing enough. Let me piss myself real quick.
Teen drinker caught 'hanging out'
An Athens-Clarke police officer on bike patrol Monday night spotted an obviously drunk teen-ager hanging by his clothes on an iron fence in the parking lot behind the Georgia Theatre at the corner of Lumpkin and Washington streets downtown.
According to police reports, the teen apparently had tried to climb over the fence but was snagged by his clothes. Two women were trying to help him off the fence when the officer arrived abut 8:10 p.m. The officer got the teen off the fence and noticed he was staggering around. After questioning the teen, he learned the teen was 19 and had consumed at least eight drinks at a downtown bar.
The teen had a cut to his chin after falling down and appeared to have urinated on himself, the officer noted in his report. He was taken to Athens Regional Medical Center to get stitches in his chin, then booked into the Clarke County jail on charges of underage drinking and public intoxication.
If the police say it's $300 worth, it was probably a quarter of an ounce.
... Dried Flower Bulbs?! I better call the nice police boys...
A 60-year-old woman called police about 11:30 a.m. Monday after she found a bag on the sidewalk of Milledge Circle containing what she thought to be dried out flower bulbs.
A responding officer discovered the found item was actually about $300 worth of marijuana, reports said. The dope was taken into evidence to be destroyed.
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
Meth in a trailer park? Get Outa Town! You must be kidding me!
Two charged in drug investigation
Athens-Clarke police investigating complaints of drug activity at Klassics, an Atlanta Highway bar, arrested two people Friday night, police said.
Members of the Athens-Clarke Drug and Vice Unit and uniformed officers seized an unspecified quantity of methamphetamine and cocaine, police said.
Jeffery Lee ______, 35, of H-* Country Corners Mobile Home Park, and Stephanie Marie _____, 22, of 2*** Apalachee Road, Madison, were arrested and charged with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
Monday, April 29, 2002
Trash-Talkin!
Man arrested for fighting, marijuana
An officer on patrol early Sunday morning arrested a man after arriving at a downtown scuffle to find a man punching another in the face, an Athens-Clarke County police report stated.
Police on patrol noticed men trash talking in front of the Uptown Lounge on East Washington Street around 3:20 a.m. Sunday.
After police approached the men, one of them charged and punched another man in the face, according to a police report.
After taking the attacker to the ground, cuffing and searching him, an officer found a bag with marijuana, the report stated.
After smelling alcohol on his breath, police then arrested 22-year-old Michael Daniel Mills of Homer for simple battery, public intoxication and possession of marijuana.
