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THE JACKSON HERALD
PAGE 9A
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2017
Commerce PD
Woman snitches on passenger, still gets arrested
Darlene Heather Looney. 26, 262 Sycamore Street,
Homer, was stopped by an officer with the Commerce
Police Department for driving a vehicle without a tag
light.
Looney was not able to provide an officer with a
license because she claimed it was stolen. The pas
senger, Jeremiah Edward Pike, 36, 160 Hart Avenue,
Athens was able to provide an I.D. The officer asked
Looney to see her Facebook page to confirm identity.
Looney then asked the officer if she could walk back
to the officer’s car to show him the page. That’s when
Looney told the officer that she did not want Pike in
the car with her and that he probably had drugs on him.
The officer then asked for backup. Both Pike and
Looney were searched and officers found drugs on
both of them. There was also pill bottles containing
meth in the vehicle.
OTHER ARRESTS
Other arrests made by the CPD recently were:
•Justin Taylor Simmons. 23. 155 Grado Lane, war
rant service. An officer noticed Simmons driving a
vehicle without a license plate and pulled him over.
The officer ran Simmons’ name and found that he had
an outstanding warrant out of Banks County.
•Benjamin Jerry Evans, 27. 626 Sanford Drive,
Nicholson, possession of meth. Mark Anthony, 52, 201
Washington Street SW. Atlanta, possession of meth.
Evans and Anthony were both arrested after police
found syringes during a traffic stop. The vehicle was
searched and officers found more syringes and drugs
inside the vehicle. Initially, officers only arrested
Evans as he was the driver, but Anthony requested to
get arrested as well.
•Rory Charles Hopke, 24, 105 J Joplin Lane, Mount
Croghan, S.C., driving with a suspended license.
Hopke was pulled over for not having a license plate
fixed to the back of his vehicle. When the officer ran
his license, it came back as being suspended.
•Cynthia Dianne Daniel, 30. 379 Kathleen Court.
Comer, warrant service. Daniel called police about a
phone she found at the Subway she manages. When
officers ran her name, it came back with a warrant out
of Madison County for probation violation.
•Amanda Lakay Johnson. 29, 9743 Commerce Road.
Athens, driving under the influence. Officers pulled
Johnson over for swerving and failing to maintain her
lane on Hwy. 441. Due to her condition, the officer
believed that she was on drugs. Johnson failed a field
sobriety test and officers found Xanax and marijuana in
her vehicle.
•Otha Stephens, 49, 124 North Side Drive, Commerce,
driving under the influence. Officers responded to a
vehicle accident where a car hit a fire hydrant. There was
no driver in or around the car, but officers later found
Stephens walking towards his apartment. Stephens was
drunk and the vehicle belonged to his ex-wife. He also
admitted to driving under the influence.
•David Willis Daniels, 24, 182 Harris Street, Com
merce, disorderly house. Officers were called out to
Daniels’ house three times during a party for being disor
derly. After the second trip, officers warned Daniels that
he would be arrested if they had to come back. A neigh
bor called police again complaining about Daniels and
two other people making threats towards him in his yard.
•William Douglas Mullins, 61, 4320 Jot Em Down
Road, Danielsville, driving with a suspended license.
Mullins was pulled over for driving without a seatbelt.
Officers ran his Florida driver’s license and it came back
suspended which Mullins claimed he was not aware of.
•Ryan Donald Moon, 25, 279 Crooked Creek Vil
lage, Athens, failure to appear. Moon was transported
from the Franklin County Jail to the Jackson County
Jail for not appearing for a disorderly conduct citation.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported included:
•hit and run. and failure to stop at the scene of an
accident on North Broad Street where someone drove
into the back of a man’s building and left the scene
•damage to property on North Broad Street where a
tree had fallen and damaged a few vehicles and build
ings.
•damage to property on Ila Road where a store’s
front window was shattered and shot by a pellet gun.
•recovered stolen vehicle on Interstate-85 where
a woman was stopped for driving a vehicle that was
stolen from Atlanta. The woman was not arrested and
neither was the man who sold her the vehicle. The sit
uation is being investigated
•criminal trespass and damage to private property on
Line Street where a vehicle’s back window was shot
by a pellet gun.
•sexual battery on Mt. Olive Road where a woman
and a witness accused a man of grabbing her inappro
priately.
•found property on Elizabeth Street where a man
turned in a purse that had fallen off the back of a
vehicle.
•criminal trespass and damage to property on North
Broad Street where the window of a building was hit
and shattered.
•found property on Homer Road where a woman
found a wallet on the side of the road.
•domestic dispute on Hillcrest Court where a mar
ried couple got in an argument because the wife want
ed to go to Hurricane Shoals, but the husband said that
they didn’t have the money to go.
JCSO incidents - Athens
Good Samaritan gets robbed by those he tries to help
A man and his wife allowed a young
homeless couple to stay at their house
because they had an infant.
But the man later noticed some of
his property missing and confronted the
couple about it. Eventually guns, tools
and even televisions were stolen from his
house.
The man tried to get a temporary pro
tection order on the couple, but it was
denied.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported to the JCSO in
Athens were:
•burglary on Hwy. 330 where someone
broke into a vacant house.
•damage to property on Abby Lane
where a tree fell on a house.
•burglary, criminal trespass and theft
by taking on Hwy. 330 where someone
broke into a man’s house and stole his
handgun.
•theft by taking on Rosewood Road
where a man found his motorcycle stolen
from his garage.
•fraud check on Brock Road where a
woman was trying to pay someone with
a fake check.
•criminal trespass on Hwy. 330 where
people were fishing on someone’s proper
ty and putting their bait in their trashcan.
•hit and run and leaving the scene of
an accident on Commerce Road where
a person’s car was hit and the other car
didn’t stop.
•traffic hazard on Tallassee Road where
power lines were hanging close to the
road.
•civil matter on Cane Creek Road
where a woman wants her stepson off of
her property because of his drug use.
•civil dispute on Ed Bennett Road
where a man wanted a couple out of a
house he owned because of damages. The
couple was already in the process of mov
ing out because they had just broken up.
•dispute on New Kings Bridge Road
where a woman got angry because her
husband and son didn’t ask her if she
wanted anything to eat.
•dog bite on Short Cut Road where a
dog came onto a man’s yard and began
fighting with his dog. The man had to
stab the dog with a knife to get it off of
his dog. The dog died as a result of the
stabbing.
JCSO incidents - Nicholson
Man finds his clothes destroyed after ex-wife’s arrest
A man on Summer Lane recently noticed many of his
clothes and other belongings missing.
He searched his property and found them cut up with
scissors in a trash bag in his storage shed.
The man told officers with the Jackson County Sher-
riff’s Office that he believes that his ex-wife, who he had
arrested the day before, is the one who cut up his clothes.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported to the JCSO in Nicholson
were:
•criminal trespass on Ed Bennett Road where a vehicle
was stuck on a septic line while a man was at a residence
to help a friend move.
•battery on Broad Street where a man got out of his
truck at a store, used a racial slur towards a man, punched
him in the face and drove off.
•disabled vehicle on Willard Pittman Drive where a
tractor-trailer was stuck in wet, soggy grass.
•suspicious person on Lakeview Drive where police
questioned a man who had pulled over on the side of the
road, got out of his vehicle and walked around. The driver
told officers that he had a leg cramp and he got out of the
car to walk it out.
•verbal dispute on Daffodil Court where a couple got
into an argument while breaking up.
•wallet and keys found on Staghorn Trail where some
one found a wallet and keys at the mailboxes.
•courtesy transport on Hwy. 441 where an officer drove
a man to the Jackson/Clarke County line and allowed him
to charge his phone.
•suspicious activity on Old Kings Bridge Road where
a white vehicle was parked on the side of the road by a
driveway. The occupants in the vehicle were a couple
and the girlfriend had snuck out of her home to visit the
boyfriend who didn’t want to disturb her parents.
•fraud at Hwy. 441 where someone used a man’s bank
information to charge $19,928. The man was a victim of
ID theft before and the perpetrator was recently released
from prison.
•threats on Steeple Chase Road where a woman claims
her son was threatened.
•suspicious persons on Sanford Road where a man
worries that men coming to his house claiming to be sell
ing Kirby vacuum cleaners may not be legitimate,
•abandoned vehicle on Chandler Bridge Road where
a man came home to find an unknown vehicle in his
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someone that the man knows and that the car had stopped
working. The man said it was okay for him to leave the
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•suspicious vehicle on Hwy. 334 where a car driven by
a man with a suspended license ran out of gas. Police told
the driver and the passenger who also had a suspended
license to have someone else drive them home.
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