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The
Commerce News
November 7, 2007 • Page 7A
Commerce Police Charge 2 With DUI
The Commerce Police
Department charged two people
with driving under the influence
(DUI) of intoxicants during the
past week, one allegedly under
the influence of drugs and the
other of alcohol.
An Athens man faces DUI-
drugs charges following a dis
turbance at the Flying J Travel
Plaza, Maysville Road.
According to the incident
report, the officer was sum
moned because an intoxicated
customer was arguing with the
store clerk. When the officer
arrived on the scene, he stopped
David Harold Denton, 40, of
230 Woody Drive, Athens, who
was leaving the travel center in
his vehicle.
The officer asked Denton for
his driver’s license and insurance
information, which “he could
not produce,” the report said.
When the officer asked Denton
to step out of his vehicle, the
officer commented that Denton
was “uncoordinated,” and had
slurred speech. At that point,
the officer ran Denton’s driver’s
license, which came back as
suspended.
The report said the officer
searched the suspect’s car, and
in a duffle bag found drugs list
ed as Carisoprodal, Gababentin,
Kadian, Lithium, Oxycondon,
Alprazolon and Beropamil, lead
ing to the DUI-drugs charge.
In the other DUI case, Heather
Virginia Boswell, 28, of 5393
South Apple Valley Road,
Jefferson, was pulled over for
speeding, and the officer report
ed that her eyes were “sleepy
looking” and red and that she
admitted having a “Grateful
Dead drink (equal parts of
vodka, tequila, light rum, gin and
raspberry liqueur) and a shot of
vodka” at a Banks Crossing res
taurant 30 minutes before she
was pulled over.
She was charged with DUI,
failure to maintain a lane and
speeding.
Others arrested during the past
week include the following:
•Rachel Nicole Curtis,
21, 3389 Summit Turf Lane,
Snellville, speeding, no license
on her person and driving with
a suspended license.
•David Allen Acker Jr., 19, 261
Shankle Road, Commerce, bat
tery under the Family Violence
Act, criminal trespass and cru
elty to children. He was arrest
ed after a domestic incident
sparked by his alleged spanking
of a 4-year-old that left bruises
on the child. The responding
officer noted that the curtains
in the living room of the res
idence were torn, a calendar
was torn down, a bedroom was
“ransacked,” with clothing and
boxes scattered over the floor
and bed. A 27-year-old white
female said Acker grabbed her
arms and shoved her. Witnesses
backed up her statement, the
officer said.
•Timothy Phil Elrod, 32, 48
Hillcrest Street, Commerce, dis
orderly conduct following an
argument with a female in his
residence. The woman did not
want to press charges, but when
the officer was summoned back
to the scene immediately after
the first call and found Elrod
using profanity and smelling of
alcohol, he arrested him.
•William Dean Whitlock,
48, 106 Heritage Hills Drive,
Commerce, disorderly conduct.
According to the responding
officer, Whitlock and a woman
were arguing over money. The
suspect said he did not want
to talk to the officer, who he
described as “a liar and a young
punk,” and when he approached
the officer in a manner the offi
cer found threatening, the offi
cer handcuffed him and placed
him under arrest. The report
said Whitlock began to curse
and scream.
•Reginald T. Jenkins, 36, 2489
Sylvan Terrace, East Point, forg
ery in the first degree after he
tried to pass a $4,675 check
drawn on a construction com
pany at Athens First Bank and
Trust. When the bank called
the construction company to
verify the check, the report said
the bank was told that the com
pany did not issue the check.
•Mikhail V. Andrashko, 17,
514 Ventura Street, North
Point, FL, driving with a sus
pended license. When the offi
cer pulled Andrashko over,
the suspect told the officer
that he’d left his license at his
motel room. The officer was
unable to verify the status of
his license because the Florida
computer system was down.
He issued Andrashko a cita
tion for not having a license
on his person, and later in the
day found that his license had
been suspended for “educa
tion noncompliance,” and filed
the other charge.
Truck, Camper Destroyed
A camper and a pickup truck were destroyed and the vinyl sid
ing on a house damaged in a fire last Thursday morning at the
Creekdale Drive residence of Commerce fireman Shane Cobb.
Cobb, who was home at the time, said he had been inside for
about 15 minutes and came out to find the truck and camper
ablaze. The fire apparently started in the cab of the pickup truck
and then spread to the camper.
Out-Of-The-Car Shoe Salesman Ripped Off By Two Thieves
A Conyers man learned a les
son about conducting out-of-the-
car sales in Commerce.
According to the Commerce
Police Department, a 38-year-old
black male was “selling shoes out
of the back of his car” in the park
ing lot of Studio 54, Homer Road,
when a black male approached
him to look at a pair of shoes.
While the salesman was talking
to the potential buyer, another
black male walked up, took the
victim’s wallet and walked away.
The victim gave chase, but could
not catch the thief. When he
returned to his vehicle, he found a
pair of shoes — and the first black
male — gone.
In addition to the shoes, valued
at $65, the traveling salesman lost
$270 in cash, five credit cards,
his Social Security Card and his
driver’s license.
Other incidents investigated
during the past week include:
• theft of a $10 bill from the cash
box at a classroom snack bar
at Commerce High School. Two
students told the school resource
officer that a third student, a
female, had pocketed the bill. The
report said the girl at first denied
taking the money, but eventually
confessed and returned it. The
school will handle the case inter
nally rather than filing a juvenile
complaint, the report indicated.
•criminal trespass at a South
Elm Street car lot where the front
door was kicked in but the owner
could not tell that anything was
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•the recovery of a 1996
International truck at the Flying
J Travel Plaza, Maysville Road,
which had been stolen in Hall
County. The windows were bro
ken out.
•a burglary at Commerce Car
Care, South Elm Street, in which
a door knob was cut to gain
entry but, apparently, nothing was
taken.
•a burglary at a Shankle Road
residence where two white
females told police they arrived
to go through the belongings of
their mother, who had recently
died, only to find the door kicked
in. They could not determine what
had been stolen.
•the theft of $1,126 worth of
copper pipes and fittings from the
Ingles construction site, Hwy. 334.
The thief cut the lock off of a stor
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• theft of $68.51 in gasoline from
the Fast & Friendly convenience
store on the Ila Road. The clerk
said someone tried to pay for the
gas with a credit card and drove
off after the card was rejected.
•theft of an unspecified
amount of gasoline by a male
at the Flying J Travel Plaza. The
clerk said the man came into the
store with a teenage girl, bought
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asked if he had pumped gas, said
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•a report of the theft of a pock-
etbook that had a happy end
ing. A 26-year-old white female
reported to police that her pock-
etbook turned up missing after
she’d been to the car wash on
North Broad Street. It contained
her driver’s license, credit card,
checkbook and Social Security
card. She called back later to
report that she’d recovered the
pocketbook and all of its con
tents — her dog had taken it from
her car and spread it over her
backyard.
•threatening calls reported at
Don’s Quick Lube, Maysville
Road, where the owner said he’d
sold a vehicle to a man, and the
new owner got stopped for hav
ing no insurance and wanted the
seller to pay the fine. The man
who sold the vehicle said he’d
been warned to pay it or he’d “pay
for it in the long run.”
•harassment, Crossing Place
Apartments, Steve Reynolds
Industrial Parkway, in which a
40-year-old white female told
police she’d been having prob
lems with a neighbor, who was
spreading rumors about the vic
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