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The
Commerce News
November 14, 2007 • Page 7A
Commerce Police Department Arrests
Police Charge 2 With Public Drunkenness
Officer of the Commerce Police
Department arrested two people
on public drunkenness charges
during the past week and charged
another with driving under the
influence (DUI) of intoxicants.
Alerted by an off-duty officer
of a possible pedestrian under
the influence, an officer found
Waymon Howell, 50, 164 Tivoli
Apartments, Athens, on South
Broad Street at about 8:24 p.m.
Saturday night. According to
the officer’s report, Howell was
attempting to urinate next to a
parked car and almost stepped
into traffic.
The report said the officer asked
Howell what he was doing, and
the man admitted attempting to
urinate. When the officer asked
him if he was aware that he’d
almost been struck by traffic, the
report indicated that Howell said
he did not see it.
The officer asked Howell if he
would submit to an Alcosensor
test, and the report said Howell
agreed “because he had not been
drinking.”
However, after Howell blew a
.242, the officer arrested him.
The other public drunkenness
charge was made against Timothy
Phil Elrod, 32, of 48 Hillcrest Street
after he allegedly awakened in the
back seat of a car at Heritage Hills
Apartments at about 3:00 a.m.
to find his girlfriend not around.
The report said he first honked
the horn, then walked to a nearby
apartment and banged on the
door, apparently in an attempt to
locate her.
The report said Elrod had ear
lier consumed “a little more than
a 12-pack of beer.”
Other arrests reported dur
ing a relatively quiet past week
include:
•Carla V. Downing, 44, 1438
Boggs Road, Atlanta, DUI, driv
ing without a license and fail
ure to maintain a lane. She was
pulled over on Interstate 85 after
an officer noted her weaving on
the roadway, according to the
arrest report. The officer said he
immediately noticed the strong
odor of alcohol, saw that her
eyes were bloodshot and watery
and observed her fumbling as
she tried to produce the driver’s
license and insurance informa
tion he sought. The report indi
cated that the woman was unsure
of where she was coming from
and where she lived (“Atlanta, I
think”). She allegedly blew a .112
on the Alcosensor.
•Tony Lamont Thomas, 30, 211
Heritage Hills Drive, Commerce,
cruelty to children and battery
under the Family Violence Act.
The charges stemmed from a
Sept. 18 domestic dispute.
•Mark Lane Mathers, 52, 161
Cotton Street, Commerce, on an
unspecified Jackson County war
rant after an officer pulled him
over for riding a bicycle without
lights at 12:28 a.m.
•Morgan A. Dorr, 25, 675
Belmont Street, Watertown, ME,
speeding and driving with a sus
pended license.
•Kevin Kitchens, 36, P.O. Box
613, Commerce, on an unspeci
fied warrant from Jackson County.
He was a passenger in a vehicle
pulled over for doing 49 in a
25-mile-per-hour speed zone.
•Danny Glen Butler, 43, 937
New Canon Street, Canon,
arrested on a probation viola
tion warrant from the Commerce
Police Department.
• Keith Andrew Reinemann, 22,
307 Woodpecker Lane, Nicholson,
driving with a suspended license.
He was charged after being pulled
over for a tag violation.
•Ronnie Atkins, 45, 140 North
Bowden Street, Commerce,
arrested on an unspecified Hall
County warrant after being pulled
over for a traffic violation.
•Richard Thomas Patton, 52,
1370 Red Hill Road, Carnesville,
on an unspecified warrant from
Franklin County after being
pulled over for a traffic violation.
Thieves Grab $40,000 In
Copper From Ingles Site
Thieves stole $40,000 worth of
copper from the construction
site of the new Ingles grocery
store last week, and it may have
been an inside job.
According to the incident
report filed by the Commerce
Police Department, the person
in charge of the construction
site, worried about such thefts,
had installed a video monitor
near the construction trailer
holding the materials.
The officer said the man
reported that a contractor “new
to the job” had gone under the
trailer and cut the wires to the
security monitor.
The thieves broke the lock off
the 53-foot trailer and removed
copper wiring and copper tub
ing. The report also indicated
that the thieves removed a freez
er locker and cut the locks off of
three toolboxes.
The theft of copper is rampant
across the area due to the high
prices thieves can get at recy
cling centers.
Other Reports
Other reports filed by the
police department during the
past week include:
•a response to a report of
violating the water ban at a Tara
Place apartment. The officer
said a 46-year-old Latino male
was caught in the act of washing
his car and admitted that he had
been previously warned. The
officer said he told the man that
he could be fined and the man
said he would not wash his car
again, the report said.
•another violation of the water
ban, this time on Louise Drive,
where police found a 44-year-
old white male washing his car.
The man said he was unaware of
the watering ban.
•theft by taking of a toolbox
containing extension cords and
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Police Raising Support For 'Mayors' Motorcade
Commerce will do its part to
make the Christmas season spe
cial for residents of the state’s
mental health and retardation hos
pital.
For 49 years, cities across
Georgia have helped patients at
Georgia’s seven regional mental
health and retardation hospitals
enjoy the holidays through the
Mayors’ Christmas Motorcade.
The program, begun by the
Georgia Municipal Association
(GMA) in cooperation with Gov.
Ernest Vandiver, relies on citizens
in each city to donate gifts for the
patients, many of whom would
not receive gifts or be recognized
without the Mayors’ Christmas
Motorcade. According to hospital
staff, many of the patients have
lived their most of their lives and
have little, if any, support or con
tact with friends and family.
Donated items from Commerce
will be delivered to the Georgia
Regional Hospital Dec. 5. Civic
organizations, businesses, church
es, schools, scout troops and
individual citizens are asked to
donate gifts for the event. For
more information, contact Lt. Ken
Harmon of the Commerce Police
Department at 706-335-3200.
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