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INCIDENT REPORTS . April 12, 2023
The following incidents were reported by the Forsyth Police Department
and the Monroe County Sheriffs Office.
Driver caught with stolen
checks and credit cards
A black 2023 Land Rover had
already been stopped by deputy
A. Thompson and Cpl. John Co
chran at mile marker 190 on 1-75
N when Cpl. Jaleel Brown arrived
to assist with a search on Feb. 28.
The 30-year-old male driver from
Perry was standing handcuffed
at the rear of his vehicle with the
deputies.
Brown could smell marijuana
in the SUV and found a bookbag
filled with several cell phones and
credit cards belonging to sever
al different people. There were
also two extremely realistic fake
Georgia drivers licenses with
the drivers face but with two
different names. Several business
checks belonging to Food Plus,
LLC, as well as a traditional style
typewriter suspected to be used
to forge the checks were also in
the Land Rover.
Brown spent the next two weeks
contacting the owners of the
credit cards and the Food Plus,
LLC owner based out of Orlando,
Fla. The business owner told him
someone wrote two fictitious
checks in the amount of $100 and
attempted to cash them which
flagged his account. He said his
bank is looking into the matter.
A woman who owned one of the
stolen credit cards said she knew
the driver and had given him
Chime and Money Pass cards to
pay his rent wherever he stayed.
He also had her CashApp card
which she knew nothing about.
Convicted felon crashes bike
during high-speed chase
A Palmer, Tenn. man tried to
outrun deputies on a red and
black Honda CBR with a female
passenger on March 24. Sgt
Kevin Williams spotted the bike
weaving in and out of traffic on
1-75 N near mile marker 195 and
when Williams got behind the
27-year-old rider the motorcycle
moved over into the emergency
lane trying to escape at over 135
mph. Dispatch said the tag on
the bike belonged to a Harley
Davidson.
Williams continued the pursuit
until mile marker 212 where he
called it off due to traffic condi
tions near Henry County. Wil
liams then returned southbound.
The sergeant soon received a
call from another deputy that
the motorcycle had wrecked at
mile marker 216 near Hwy. 155.
Williams and deputy Enrique
Hogan went to the scene and
took the driver back to the Mon
roe County Jail where he refused
medical attention. His passenger
was taken to the hospital.
A Colt 22 pistol was found in
side the riders backpack and after
running his information, depu
ties learned he was a convicted
felon. He was cited for failure
to signal, following too closely,
failure to maintain lane, speeding,
fleeing, failure to exercise due
care, driving in the emergency
lane, fraudulent tag, possession of
a firearm during the commission
of a felony and possession of a
firearm by a convicted felon.
Shoplifting suspect banned
from Dollar Store
A man was banned from the
Dollar Store on North Lee Street
on March 27 after manage
ment reported to officer Arthur
Musselman that he was seen on
surveillance footage of shoplifting
items from the store.
The assistant store manager said
the man who was wearing dreads
took an unknown item from a
shelf and put it in his bag. Mus
selman approached the man and
told him he had been accused of
stealing merchandise.
The suspect showed the officer
the contents of his green bag
and his pockets and nothing was
found. The complainant said
under the circumstances, she
wanted him trespassed from the
store. The man was warned not
to come back on the premises or
he would be arrested.
Walmart employee fired
and banned from store
A Walmart manager told officer
Arthur Musselman on March
28 that an employee had stolen
several items from the store and
wanted them banned. The stolen
items included food with a total
value of around $60. The former
employee was cited for theft,
criminally trespassed and banned
from Walmart.
Unlicensed Guatemalan
driver taken to jail
A man went to jail on March 29
after being stopped on Harold G.
Clarke Parkway by officer Rich
ard Maddox for an expired regis
tration. The man had no drivers
license and handed Maddox a
Guatemalan ID instead.
He was asked to step out of the
car and was cuffed. None of his
three passengers had drivers li
censes either so his Ford Explorer
was towed by Forsyth Wrecker
Service. He was turned over to
Monroe County Jail personnel.
Man claims female guest
takes money from his wallet
Officer Arthur Musselman re
sponded to a call regarding a theft
at a home on College street on
April 1 where a male complainant
told him that $170 was taken
from his wallet. The man said he
was sitting in his room talking to
a woman visitor and when he had
to use the restroom he put his
wallet next to his nightstand.
He stated that when he came
out the woman was hurrying out
the door and when he tried to
stop her, she mumbled something
unintelligible and left. He became
suspicious and when he checked
his wallet, saw his money was
gone.
The man said he is moving
to Arizona in the middle of the
month and will not be returning
to Georgia and didn’t want to
press charges, only that a report
be made.
Woman bitten by guard dog
A homecare giver was bitten by
a German Shepherd when she
arrived at a home on Shi Road on
April 3. The woman told deputy
Enrique Hogan when she arrived
and was getting out of her car,
the homeowners dog lunged at
her and bit her left thigh. The dog
then ran off.
She said she stayed in her
vehicle with three deep puncture
wounds crying hysterically until
the dogs owner came outside and
helped her inside the house to
treat her injury.
There were signs clearly posted
at the entrance of the property
warning of the guard dog and
that the dog will bite. The dog
had been vaccinated for rabies
and Monroe County Animal
Control was notified of the bite.
Man claims pistol was
stolen during a party
A 22-year-old Buck Creek Road
man told deputy Sean Valieant
on April 4 that he had a party at
his house the night before and
the next morning his pistol was
missing. The man said around
20 people had attended the
party and at one point he put his
9mm handgun valued at $200 in
the bed of his pickup truck. He
noticed it was missing the next
morning and called deputies.
Man jailed for trespassing
on mother's property
A 50-year-old man trespassed
from his mothers Boxankle
Road home was arrested after he
showed up at her house ap
pearing “drunk” on April 5. The
74-year-old woman told deputy
Jason O’Steen that her son had
been banging on her door and
yelling and she was in fear for her
safety. She said she did not want
him on her property. An active
criminal trespass ban has been in
effect since Sept. 2020.
O’Steen went to the man’s house
next door where he admitted
being on his mother’s property
because he wanted to get his
cigarette lighter back from her.
He was arrested and taken to the
Monroe County Jail.
Woman scammed by
pine straw spreaders
An 83-year-old woman on
Whittle Road reported a case of
pine straw spreading fraud on
April 6. The woman told deputy
Jason O’Steen that two men who
claimed to be with a landscaping
business that placed pine straw
stopped at her home on March
29. She made out a check for
$1,986 after they said the job
was completed but the woman is
wheelchair-bound and couldn’t
properly inspect their work.
The woman’s son said he met
the men on her property on
April 3 and they told him they
hadn’t yet been paid and he also
wrote them a check. This time for
$1,100. He later learned they had
already been paid. He told the
deputy the men were in a 2000
Chevrolet pickup pulling a large
trailer and said they were from
Dublin.
Felon jailed for
pistol possession
A convicted felon went to jail
on April 7 after a stop for exces
sive window tint on 1-75 N near
High Falls Road. The driver was
unable to give deputy Thomas
Morgan a driver’s license, so the
deputy had him step out to be
handcuffed.
A black Taurus 9mm pistol was
found in the man’s 2008 Hyundai
Elantra and after running a check
of the driver’s criminal history,
it was learned he had multiple
felony convictions. He was turned
over to the Monroe County Jail
with charges of driving without a
license, no seatbelt, tint violation
and possession of a firearm by a
convicted felon.
Woman drives
drunk to get pizza
Deputy Cody Maples was
dispatched to Juliette Road near
Holly Grove Road on April 7 to
assist Butts County Sgt. R. Seck-
inger with a traffic stop involving
an intoxicated 62-year-old female
driver from Lincoln Park. The
woman was sitting in a maroon
2021 Dodge Caravan when Ma
ples arrived and Seckinger told
him she stopped the van because
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The following arrests were reported by the Monroe County Sheriffs Office and Forsyth
Police Department, An arrest means someone has been charged with a crime, but the
law considers them innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
APRIL 2
• Nicholas
Jesse Garcia,
31, discharge of
firearm in pub
lic, possession
of a firearm
by a convicted
felon
APRIL 3
• Jeremy
Cleophous
Sanford,
38, Bonaire,
aggravated as
sault, property
damage
• Jabias Ter
rel West, 26,
Port Gibson,
Miss., driv
ing without a
license
• Jorin Ter
rell Johnson,
23, Forsyth,
battery
• Ricky Wil
liam Manus,
57, Macon,
possession of a
firearm by con
victed felon
APRIL 5
• Brandom
Carreon
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Mocctezuma,
24, Alpharetta,
driving without
• Willevaldo
Aguilera To
var, 40, Cum-
ming, marijua
na possession,
DUI-refusal,
drug posses
sion
ljuana posses
sion, open con
tainer, failure to
maintain lane
• Mark Jason
Herringdine,
50, Forsyth,
trespassing
• Shetara Sri-
ta Norwood,
36, Forsyth,
synthetic
marijuana pos
session, drug
possession (2
charges)
• Aurelio
Ponce Barajas,
25, Jackson
ville, failure
to maintain
lane, speeding,
tint violation,
possession and
use of drug-re
lated objects,
driving without
a license
APRIL 4
• Robert Ste
ven Cochran,
37, Forsyth,
no insurance,
driving with
out a license,
suspended
registration
• Lynn
Fields, 38,
Pembroke,
driving with
out a license,
speeding, hold
for another
agency
• William
Terry Lee,
49, Forsyth,
driving without
a license, failure
to stop at stop
sign
• Jose Adrian
Siles Fajardo,
33, Alpharetta,
giving false
information,
marijuana pos
session, open
container
• Tevin
Christopher
Wynn, 30,
Macon, driv
ing without a
license, hold
for another
agency
APRIL 6
• Alonzo
Clark, 24,
Marshall-
ville, driving
without a
commercial
license, failure
to maintain
lane
• Marquis
Javon King,
23, Flovilla,
fleeing (2
charges),
speeding,
failure to
maintain lane,
failure to stop
at stop sign
(2 charges),
passing in no
passing zone,
failure to
exercise due
care, reckless
conduct
• Jamitch-
ell Tyhiene
Owens, 42,
Barnesville,
trespassing,
terroristic acts
and threats
• Walter
Adrian Riley,
49, Lithonia,
giving false
information,
driving with
out a license,
headlight
requirements
• Antonio
Jamal Veal, 33,
Lizella, driving
without a
license, no
insurance,
suspended
registration
APRIL 7
• William
Eugene
Bacon, 43,
Macon,
possession
of a firearm
by convicted
felon, driving
without a
license, tint
violation,
seatbelt
• James Lou
is Dumas, 62,
Forsyth, public
indecency
• Luis
Armando
Garcia De
Los Santos,
29, Woodland,
Mich., driv
ing without a
license, failure
to maintain
lane
• Don
na Marie
Hammond,
61, Lincoln
Park, Mich.,
DUI-refusal,
license address
change, failure
to maintain
lane
• Deshawn
Lanard
Johnson, 26,
Macon, speed
ing, driving
without a
license
• Bernard
Enri Laster,
24, Garden
City, following
too closely,
driving with
out a license
APRIL 8
• Jenna
Lynn Greene,
36, Barnes
ville, shoplift
ing
• Brandon
Jarrell Little,
30, Vidalia,
drugs, speed
ing, failure
to maintain
lane, tag lights,
driving with
out a license,
possession and
use of drug-re
lated objects
• Kelsia
Rene Oliver,
27, Mc
Donough,
driving with
out a license
APRIL 9
• Joe Kent
Ayers, 65,
Roswell, fail
ure to main
tain lane, open
container,
DUI-refusal
• Mark
Anthony
Bradford,
59, Macomb,
Mich., driving
without a
license, failure
to signal, tag
registration
• Joseph
Harris, 42, At
lanta, follow
ing too closely,
DUI