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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2020
BARROW NEWS-JOURNAL
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Sheriff’s office, police
departments report
recent arrests
The following arrests
around the county were re
ported Dec. 23-27 by the Bar-
row County Sheriffs Office
and the Auburn, Statham and
Winder police departments.
BCSO
•Jacquel Denard Johnson,
27, 1100 Summerbrook Cir.
1114, Athens—driving with
out a valid license and speed
ing in a construction zone.
•James William Drap
er, 32, 1040 Monroe Hwy.,
Bethlehem—battery.
•Charles Nolan Dooley
Jr., 41, 893 Whispering Way,
Winder — misdemeanor
theft of services.
•Marlon Evelio, 39, 3925
Mountain View Rd. C2, Oak-
wood — driving without a
valid license,
•Ian Anthony Dewey, 20,
224 Ryan Rd., Winder —
misdemeanor probation vio
lation.
•Kevin Lewis Boggus, 49,
5585 Bogus Rd., Gainesville
—felony probation violation.
•Melissa Michele Maul
din, 50, 2779 Kristi Beth Ct„
Dacula — simple assault and
simple battery.
•Lucy A. Asanful, 47,3483
Patton Way 6122, Bethlehem
— driving under the influ
ence of chugs and improper
lane change/failure to main
tain a lane,
•Jameria Kenyatta Brown,
22, 133 West Marable St. B,
Monroe — failure to appear
(misdemeanor).
•Randolph Alexander
Leighton, 27, 1280 Sikes
Rd., Statham — misdemean
or theft by shoplifting (two
counts).
•Michael Foster, 53, 108
Creekwood Rd., Winder —
hold for other agency.
•James Robert Driggers,
37, 108 Creekwood Rd.,
Winder — hold for other
agency.
•Ashley Brooke Reese,
32,186 Giles Rd., Winder —
possession of methamphet-
amine, possession of a Sched
ule I controlled substance
(two counts), possession and
use of chug-related objects
(two counts) and willful ob
struction of law enforcement
officers (misdemeanor).
•Christina Vang, 24, 307
Cobblestone Rd., Auburn —
misdemeanor theft by shop
lifting.
•Tahron Donnell Watkins,
30, 1880 Commerce Rd.,
Athens — possession of a
firearm or knife during the
commission of or attempt
to commit certain felonies;
possession of a Schedule I
controlled substance; posses
sion of a Schedule I or n con
trolled substance with intent
to distribute; misdemeanor
marijuana possession; driving
with a suspended or revoked
license and improper lane
change/failure to maintain a
lane.
•Kristin Jon Doster, 34,
102 Quail Valley Rd., Auburn
—felony probation violation.
•Kendrick Lamar Car
ter, 43, 2016 Kirkland Cir.,
Statham — chiving with a
suspended or revoked license.
•Tony Aubrey Norris, 51,
110 Hickory Trail, Jefferson
— disorderly conduct; giv
ing a false name, address or
birthdate to law enforcement;
and two counts of willful ob
struction of law enforcement
officer's (misdemeanor).
•Sergio Luis Lopez, 27,
1625 Sedgefreld Trail, Beth
lehem — felony probation
violation.
•Justin Alexander Hobbs,
27, 1257 Harmony Grove
Church Rd., Auburn — driv
ing with a suspended or re
voked license, operating an
unregistered vehicle and im
proper passing.
•Jeremy Alan Ferguson,
33, 2550 Almont Way, Ros
well — chiving with a sus
pended or revoked license
and headlight violation.
•Quayla Rashanda Ross,
26,48 Maynard St. 22, Wind
er — felony probation viola
tion.
•Jason Wiliam Hensley, 41,
116 North Center St., Winder
— pedestrian under the influ
ence.
AUBURN
•Nathan Samuel Best, 26,
1411 Fairbrooke Ct., Dac
ula — possession of meth-
amphetamine; possession
of a Schedule IV controlled
substance; purchase, possess,
manufacture, distribute or sale
of marijuana; and violation of
Hands-Free Georgia Act.
•Jonathan Eric Willis, 33,
495 Glen Terrace Rd., Au
burn — felony terroristic
threats and acts.
STATHAM
•Pamela Juanita Butler, 55,
2027 Ventura St., Statham —
aggravated stalking.
•Nicolas Xavier Lopez,
22,417 Gladiola Dr., Auburn
— possession of a Sched
ule I controlled substance
and manufacturing/deliver/
distribute/administer/sell/pos
sess with intent to distribute a
controlled substance.
WINDER
•Jarold Ray Abernathy, 33,
15 Virginia Ave„ Winder —
disorderly conduct.
•Katlyn Abernathy, 29, 15
Virginia Ave„ Winder — dis
orderly conduct.
•Stephanie Ann Shenill,
38, 316 Tanners Bridge Rd.,
Bethlehem — hold for other
agency.
•Joseph Franklin Bowman,
32,2761 Hickory Trail, Snell-
ville—failure to appear (mis
demeanor).
•David Lawrence Crocitto,
33,596 Mossy Trace, Winder
— public drunkenness, disor
derly conduct and disturbing
the peace.
•Angie Temika Kinney,
34, 97 Lily Dr., Winder —
driving under the influence
of alcohol, drugs or other
intoxicating substances and
improper lane change/failure
to maintain a lane.
•Don Cornelius Jones Jr.,
19,405 Deer Park Dr., Athens
— felony probation violation
and giving a false name, ad
dress or birthdate to law en
forcement.
•Kevin Ray Latimer, 48,
1995 Ivy Branch Ln., Logan-
ville — misdemeanor mari
juana possession.
Woman hit, knocked unconscious
by car backing out of parking spot
The following recent incidents were
among those that the Winder Police De
partment responded to.
•A woman reported Dec. 22 that on
Dec. 18 she had been struck by a red SUV
that was backing out of a parking spot at
a West May Street business, knocking her
over and causing her to briefly lose con
sciousness. She said a Black female exited
the vehicle to check on her, picked up the
victim’s phone and put her number in it
and left. Later that day, the woman called
to check up on her. The victim went to a
hospital the next day and was diagnosed
with a concussion and neck swelling. She
could not reach the female driver about
medical expenses. A manager at the store
told police the women came to a mutual
agreement and neither contacted 911. The
phone number showed a female’s name
and traced back to a man at a Searchlight
Drive address. A red Suzuki SUV was
found in the driveway. When questioned
by police, the man said he was unaware
that his wife had been involved in an acci
dent, but that she drove a red Toyota Rav4
and was at work.
•A stolen vehicle out of Polk County,
North Carolina, was located on Nonsuch
Way a little before 7:30 p.m. Dec. 22. No
witnesses were located at surrounding res
idences, and the vehicle was taken to the
police department headquarters for pro
cessing.
•A shoplifting warrant was issued for a
Winder man who was spotted taking meat
from Aldi on West May Street on Dec. 22.
•A South Carolina woman reported her
vehicle, a Land Rover Range Rover, mid
night blue in color with a South Carolina
tag, had been stolen from the Exchange
Apartments complex sometime between
8 p.m. Dec. 21 and 10 a.m. Dec. 22.
•A Braselton man was arrested for dis
orderly conduct Dec. 22 after he walked
into the emergency room at Northeast
Georgia Medical Center Barrow “yelling
about” his family leaving him and not be
ing able to find his car keys.
•A man reported being scammed out of
almost $1,000 while corresponding with
someone he thought was a customer ser
vice representative for eBay after he did
not receive a package he had ordered.
•A man was detained on an outstanding
warrant out of Walton County on Dec.
20 when a car he was a passenger in was
found parked after hours at Victor Lord
Park.
•A Winder woman was arrested for bat
tery Dec. 19 following a domestic dispute
at a 3rd Avenue residence.
•A Winder man was arrested for false
imprisonment Dec. 19 following a do
mestic dispute at a Pinkston Oaks Circle
residence. The man and his wife had been
in an argument about Christmas gifts for
their children and refused to allow her to
leave the house with them and go to a fam
ily member’s house,
•A Winder woman was arrested for
driving with a suspended license Dec. 19
when she was stopped on Capitol Avenue
for having an inoperative brake light.
•A woman reported being scammed out
of $500 by a “Candice Santos” whom she
thought she was purchasing a PlayStation
from over an app.
•A woman reported that someone un
lawfully and without her permission used
her name and address on a car title. A man
in New York contacted her saying he had
purchased a vehicle from an “El Lloyd”
and needed a copy of the most recent ti
de for a 2019 Ford Edge. The woman had
never owned a Ford Edge nor been to New
York.
•A woman at a Harrison Lane residence
reported Dec. 19 that her mailbox had
been damaged and a black glove and two
pairs of handcuffs had been found in the
middle of the road.
•A Winder woman was arrested for
driving under the influence of alcohol (less
safe) following a traffic accident on North
Broad Street near West Wright Street
around 7:30 a.m. Dec. 19.
•A Bethlehem woman was arrested on
a failure to appear warrant out of Barrow
County on Dec. 19 after a report of a dis
pute at a Martin Luther King Jr. Drive res
idence.
•A Winder man was arrested for driving
with a suspended license Dec. 18 follow
ing a traffic stop at Captain D’s on East
May Street.
•A woman at Aldi on West May Street
reported that a tan Ford Expedition struck
her vehicle while cutting through the park
ing lot a little before 7 p.m. Dec. 18.
•A man reported that a tractor trailer
struck his vehicle at the intersection of
North Broad and East May streets around
3:30 p.m. Dec. 18, damaging his taillight,
and kept traveling east on East May Street.
Two witnesses described the vehicle as
having a white cab and hauling multiple
orange tractors. One of the witnesses fol
lowed the vehicle, which turned off East
May Street onto Monroe Highway and
later crossed State Route 316.
•A Winder man was arrested for reck
less conduct and simple battery Dec. 18
following a domestic dispute at a Lang
ford Street residence during which he
shoved his fiancee during an argument
and backed his vehicle over her daugh
ter’s foot while leaving.
•A woman reported Dec. 18 that
someone had broken into a home she
owns on Mary Alice Drive by kicking in
the basement door. Nothing was report
ed missing from the home.
•A man reported being scammed out
of almost $6,000 when he received an
email Dec. 17 telling him he had been
charged $199.99 for “Defender Fire
wall” software, a transaction he had not
approved. He called a number attached
to the email and was told by a male
subject to download “AnyNet,” which
allowed the male to gain access to his
computer. The male gained access to the
man’s bank account and money and told
the victim he would need to purchase
Best Buy gift cards in order to get his
money back. The male had nearly emp
tied the bank account.
•A Dacula man was arrested for driv
ing under the influence of alcohol (less
safe) and driving with a suspended li
cense following a traffic stop in the area
of West May and Horton streets around
2 p.m. Dec. 17 after police received an
alert about a reckless driver in the area.
•A Winder man reported being
scammed out of $800 when he found a
home through Facebook Marketplace
to rent in Lawrenceville. He thought he
had agreed to rent the home for $1,000
a month and was instructed by who he
thought was the landlord to purchase
$800 in Amazon gift cards and send
them. The real landlord later contacted
him about his interest in the property and
told him the rent was $1.795 per month.
•A woman at a Church Street resi
dence reported that someone had en
tered her vehicle, which she said she had
locked, sometime between 9 p.m. Dec.
16 and 4:15 a.m. Dec. 17 and stolen a
cell phone charger, a bottle of perfume,
a pair of gold earrings shaped like light
ning bolts and a prescription pill botde.
•A man reported Dec. 17 that two stop
signs in the area of Williamson and Capi
tol avenues had been “tagged” with graf
fiti. and a “no loitering” sign on a store in
the neighborhood had been tagged with
anti-police messaging.
•A Sylvester woman was arrested
on an outstanding warrant out of Hen
ry County on Dec. 16 after her vehicle
was spotted with its hazard lights on and
blocking the entrance from South Broad
Street into the Burger King parking lot.
Two men arrested in Auburn for harassing neighbor
The following recent inci
dents were among those that
the Auburn Police Department
responded to.
•A man at a Quail Valley
Road residence reported that a
neighbor from across the street
purposefully and his friend
ripped his Christmas decorations
from his door on Dec. 23. The
neighbor was issued a trespass
notice and warned to stay away
from the complainant’s resi
dence. However, after police left
the two men walked back across
to the residence and continued
harassing the complainant and
the other male tenant at the res
idence and hurdled homophobic
slurs toward them. Both of the
men were arrested for disorderly
conduct and public drunkenness.
•A Gainesville man was ar
rested on an outstanding warrant
out of Hall County on Dec. 20
after he was stopped for un
known insurance on Poole Cir
cle.
•A Dacula man was arrest
ed for possession of metham-
phetamine, 40 Xanax bars and
marijuana Dec. 22 after he was
stopped on Hill’s Shop Road at
Atlanta Highway for holding
a cell phone in his hand while
driving.
•An Auburn man was ar
rested for criminal trespass and
two counts of obstructing law
enforcement after he was caught
trying to steal a motorcycle at a
Natasha Drive residence just be
fore 2:30 p.m. Dec. 23. The man
briefly ran from police when
confronted.
•An Auburn man was arrest
ed on an active warrant Dec. 27
following a traffic stop on Main
Street for an expired tag.
NOTICE OF
SECOND OR MORE
DUI CONVICTION
Driving Under
The Influence
Pursuant to O.C.G.A.
Code Section 40-6-391
NAME:
DEFENDANT’S ADDRESS:
DATE OF OFFENSE:
DATE OF DISPOSITION:
Bradley H. Dowdy
537 Hiram Way
Winder, GA 30680
February 25, 2017
October 30, 2020
DISPOSITION: Plea of Guilty, 12 months probation with
the first 72 hours to be served in confinement; 240 hours
community service, CT#1 DUI Guilty; CT#2-Less Safe Nolle
Pros; CT#3; Guilty Hit and Run CS to CT#1; CT#4-6 Nolle
Pros; DUI RRP/Random Screens/No Alcohol/Drugs
Clerk of Superior Court of Barrow County
In Memory
Dec. 27,1932-May 7,1954
Killed by a
drunk driver
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