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THE JACKSON HERALD
WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2017
JCSO incidents - Commerce
Cars damaged by
pellets in Commerce
A man reported six vehicles were damaged by shotgun
pellets last week in Commerce.
Officers with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office were
called to Yarborough Ridgeway Road on reports of damage
to vehicles. Each of the vehicles had chipped paint, which
the complainant said was caused by shotgun pellets falling
from the sky.
He said his neighbors had been shooting guns.
Children were also outside while the incident occurred.
They were taken inside the residence.
Officers spoke with the neighbor, who said he was shooting
a shotgun in a safe direction. He said there was “no way it
could have been him.”
The man denied shooting into the air, claiming he was
shooting parallel to the ground. But his friend said the pellets
were falling into the pool, indicating the suspect was shooting
up in the air.
The complainant told his friend to "shut-up” and said that
she didn't know what she was talking about.
Officers advised him to be aware of his surroundings and
to shoot in a safe direction.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported to the JCSO in Commerce were:
•theft by taking at East Jackson Comprehensive High
School where a girl said someone took money from her bag.
•harassing phone calls at EJCHS where an administrator
showed a deputy screenshots of a social media message that
said someone (who is not a student) plans to talk about the
principal about what a student said about another student.
•suspicious person on Jefferson Road where someone
reported a couple was possibly involved in a domestic dis
pute. The couple's vehicle had broken down and they weren't
in a dispute, just upset because the car broke down.
•welfare check on Old Airport Road where a man asked
officers to check on a man he hadn't seen in a couple of
weeks. Officers learned he had been hospitalized.
•overdue motorist on Maysville Road where a man took
a car from a dealership for a test drive and didn't return for
five hours. He said he drove to Suwanee to go to a specialty
pharmacy and got stuck in traffic.
•theft by deception on Hwy. 82 North where a man said
he needed parts for his truck and claimed his grandmother
was on the way to pay. The suspect later left the vehicle in a
nearby church parking lot and left the scene.
•information on Apple Valley Road where man said a
woman took his van. He later called back and said the woman
returned to the residence, then hung up the phone. Officers
weren’t able to find the man.
•disorderly conduct at EJCHS where a bus driver reported
a student threatened him and cussed him out after he separat
ed the juvenile from his girlfriend for inappropriate contact.
The juvenile reportedly asked why he only punished him,
not the people on the bus who were “dipping.” In the bus
surveillance tape, officers heard the student say, "You have to
get onto everybody, not certain people. If you wanna do your
f***ing job, do it f***ing right. If you want to talk about it, I
know where the f**k you live. I can come hit you up. Is that
what you want to do? Do you want to talk that s**t out? We
can f***ing talk it out man-to-man.”
•damage to vehicle on Steven B. Tanger Boulevard where a
woman reported someone scratched her vehicle.
•civil matter on Mt. Olive Road where a man refused to
pay another man for installing speakers in his vehicle. But
the man refusing to pay said he already paid the complainant
$40 to install two speakers and replace the front grill of his
vehicle (which was never completed).
•suspicious person on B. Wilson Road where someone said
men were possibly stumbling into the roadway.
•shoplifting on Steven B. Tanger Boulevard where some
one stole 16 pairs of sunglasses.
•civil dispute on Waterworks Road where a woman report
ed a dispute with a man she paid to fix her car. She paid him
$50 for the repair, but he later said he couldn’t make the
repair. He had taken the vehicle apart so it was inoperable
and demanded an additional $50 before she could retrieve it.
He also reportedly threatened to place a lien on the vehicle.
•assist EMS on Dan Waters Road where a man reportedly
took too much medication and was found shaking on the
porch. He denied wanting to harm himself and asked officers
to take him to a hospital in South Carolina, which they could
not do.
•financial transaction card fraud on White Hill School
Road where a woman said fraudulent charges were made on
her debit card. Three purchases were made, totaling $358.
•fraud report/possible phone scam on Waterworks Road
where a woman said someone called her, talking about her
husband and money he owed on a credit card. She said they
threatened to take out a warrant on him but she knew he
didn’t have any credit card debt. The caller also cited a spe
cific case number.
•assist fire department on Hoods Mill Road with a tractor
fire.
•stolen vehicle on Wilcser Road in Carlton. The vehicle
owner loaned the Jeep to her boyfriend, who drove it into
Commerce to buy drugs. He was arrested and another man
later retrieved the vehicle. That man was also arrested and the
vehicle location remains unknown.
•theft by taking at EJCHS where a student reported money
was stolen in a locker room.
•civil dispute on Hwy. 82 Spur where woman said she paid
a man $93,000 to build a barn, but it was not completed. She
was unable to get in touch with the company owner.
•simple battery at East Jackson Middle School where a
student reportedly hit another student.
•simple battery at EJCHS where a student reportedly
slapped another student on the arm.
Maysville PD
Counterfeit bill comes
through Dollar General
The manager of the Dollar General on Newton Street says a
man came in and bought $10 worth of laundry detergent with a
counterfeit $100 bill.
Per store policy, the bill has already been handed over to the
bank. The manager also has the man who paid with the bill on
camera.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported to the MPD were:
•accident at City Park where a vehicle ran into a ditch in the
park.
JCSO incidents - Athens
Driver attempts to flee police,
crashes car with children inside
An officer with the Jackson County
Sheriff’s Office noticed a vehicle run
ning through a stop sign and attempted
a traffic stop.
The driver then evaded the officer
until the officer lost contact with the
vehicle. While continuing to drive in the
direction that the vehicle was going, the
officer noticed the vehicle in a ditch on
the side of the road.
A young male walked towards the
officer asking for help. The driver was
found in the ditch outside of the vehicle
and another, younger, child was inside
the vehicle and not restrained.
The officer noticed that the seatbelts
of the booster seats were damaged and
when he ran the name of the driver, it
came back with a suspended license.
The driver was written citations for
fleeing, failure to maintain lane, fail
ure to stop at a stop sign, two safety
restraint violations and driving with a
suspended license.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported to the Jack-
son County Sheriff’s Office with an
Athens address in South Jackson were:
•agency assist on Hwy. 330 where a
vehicle ran into the back of a school bus
and then drove away despite damages
to the hood.
•vehicle accident involving a deputy
on New Kings Bridge Road where a
police car was hit by another vehicle
while turning off of Hwy. 129.
•agency assist on Hwy. 129 where
five gallons of fuel spilled onto both
lanes of the road.
•speeding vehicles on Crooked Creek
Road where a chicken truck had been
driving too fast down the road. The
complainant said that it happens all the
time and sometimes the truck knocks
down signs.
•dispute on Crooked Creek Vil
lage where two friends were outside
drinking alcohol and the mother of
one of the friends did not want the
other on the property.
•criminal trespass and verbal dis
pute on Pittman Hill Road where a
man was speeding down the road
and a resident yelled at the driver to
slow down. The driver then pulled
over and had an argument with the
residents.
•noise disturbance on Oak Grove
Road where a party with loud music
was being held at a residence.
•criminal trespass on Commerce
Road where a manager of the J&J
Flea Market requested two individu
als be charged with trespass.
•inappropriate texts on Brock
Road where a woman noticed sex
ually harassing text messages on
her daughter’s phone from a boy at
school.
Commerce PD
CPD makes three arrests from one stop
Shannon Gene Baker, 36,
431 Payne Road was stopped
by an officer with the Com
merce Police Department for
having a broken brake light.
During the traffic stop, it was
found that Baker had a sus
pended license and a warrant
for his arrest for a probation
violation.
The officer then ran the
licenses of the two passen
gers Christopher D. Johnson,
47, 176 Wandering Dew
Drive, Alto and Sonia Renee
Johnson, 68, 88 Boxwood
Road, Alto and found that
they both had warrants for
their arrests.
Christopher Johnson had
a warrant for probation vio
lation in Hall County while
Sonia had a warrant for pro
bation violation in Alto.
OTHER ARRESTS
Other arrests made by the
CPD recently were:
•Martin Hart, 42,701 Flat
Rock Road, warrant service.
Hart was transferred from
the Banks County Jail to
the Jackson County Jail by
CPD on a failure to appear
warrant.
•Gregory Ray Martin,
50, 482 Hollywood Hills,
warrant service. Martin was
arrested on a pair of fail
ure to appear warrants for
speeding tickets.
•Elvin David Deras Cruz,
42, 1242 Nelms Road, driv
ing while unlicensed. Cruz
was pulled over for failing
to maintain his lane. Cruz
did not have a license and
showed the officer his Hon
duras Identification card
instead.
•Brian Martinus Hrus-
ka, 20, 275 Bedford Drive,
Hull, possession of marijua
na. Hruska was pulled over
by CPD Officers because
the tag lights on his vehicle
were not working. During
the traffic stop, the officer
noticed cigar wrappers and
tobacco. The officer then
asked to search the vehi
cle and Hruska consented.
During the search, the offi
cer found a box with mar
ijuana and another bag of
marijuana.
•James Robert Paul Mill
er, 38, 553 W Hancock Ave
nue, Athens, driving with a
suspended license and driv
ing without a seat belt. Mill
er left a gas station on Broad
Street spinning his tires and
laying a drag. The driver
revealed that he didn't have
a license. Dispatch told the
officer that Miller may have
warrants out of Madison
County and Athens-Clarke
County.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported
to the CPD were:
•domestic dispute on
Northwood Drive where a
man found his belongings
thrown in the trash outside
while he was going to pick
up his daughter from his
soon-to-be-ex-wife.
•animal complaint on
South Elm Street where a
deer was hit by a vehicle in
front of the Dairy Queen.
•domestic dispute on
Baugh Street where a
woman got into an argu
ment with her daughter
in-law for fussing at her
kids. The argument led to
the woman throwing a coffee
pot at the kitchen door and
shattering it.
•domestic dispute on Nunn
Street where a woman didn't
feel comfortable around her
boyfriend who had been
drinking heavily for three
days.
•simple battery on Ridge
way Road where a man tried
to get a woman to take her
belongings from his house.
During the conversation,
another man walked up and
punched him in the face.
•suicide threats on Hickory
Street where a man cut his
arm and wrists because a
woman had broken up with
him. The man called the
woman that day saying that
he would kill himself if she
did not come back.
•suicide threats on Creek-
dale Drive where police
found a man in his yard with
a pair of scissors in his hand
and cuts on his arm. The man
told officers that he has a his
tory of mental illness and is
not on his medications.
•criminal trespass on
Lakeview Drive where a
male’s genital and obscene
words were written in gold
paint on the walls of the stor
age room in the Commerce
High School auditorium.
•verbal dispute at Wil
loughby Homes where a
man was yelling at his girl
friend with their kids present
because of the girlfriend’s
father using racial slurs
towards him over the phone.
•simple battery on South
Elm Street where a man was
grabbed in his car by his
ex-wife following a verbal
dispute about their 19-year-
old son.
•battery at Willough
by Homes where a woman
was grabbed and pushed up
against a wall by a man. The
man then demanded that she
give him all of her money.
•simple assault on Heri
tage Court where two women
got into an argument over
a parking space and one of
the women spit in the other's
face.
•death investigation on
Lathan Road where a woman
found her husband dead after
he had complained of anxi
ety issues earlier that night.
•simple battery on Glen-
crest Drive where a man
claims he was shoved sev
eral times by his soon-to-be-
ex-father-in-law inside of a
U-Haul truck.
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