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On The R ecord The Commerce News January 9,2008 • Page 7 A Officer Uses Pepper Spray To Subdue Groping Suspect Wreck Sends One To Hospital A two-vehicle accident at the intersection of on Brookwood at North Broad and his 2003 South Broad Street and Brookwood Avenue F-150 pickup truck was struck by a 2001 Friday resulted in one of the drivers being taken Chevrolet Tahoe driven by Thomas James to an Athens hospital for treatment. According Stephens of Commerce. Stephens was trans- to the Commerce Police Department, James ported for treatment. Hunter Wood of Commerce ran the stop sign Man Survives Being Shot 7 Times; Alleged Assailant Held Two attempts to grab the Commerce police officer’s gun were bad enough, but when a suspect went for the officer’s pri vates during a scuffle, that was too much. After getting a dose of pepper spray in the face, Paul Clinton Kelley, 31, of 521 State Street, Commerce was subdued and charged with battery under the Family Violence Act, criminal trespass and felony obstruction of an officer. According to the incident report, the officer had responded to a 911 hang-up call at 521 State Street and was advised that the dispatcher could hear a woman screaming. The officer said he found a white female out in the street, hold ing scissors and bleeding from her nose and mouth. The officer said he drew his service weapon and ordered her to put the scis sors down. The woman complied, pointed to a man standing in the door of the house and screamed, “He did it.’’ At that point, the officer approached the man, later identi fied as Kelley, and ordered him to the ground; the report said Kelley refused and attempted to enter the house. The officer grabbed Kelley’s wrist, at which time they began scuffling, as Kelley was “very com bative and aggressive.’’ The officer said he ordered him to desist, to no avail. The officer pushed Kelley, whose head slammed into a wall, leaving a large hole in the wall. The two went to the ground, and, according to the officer, Kelley twice reached for the offi- The Commerce Police Department responded to three incidents at Crossing Place Apartments, Steve Reynolds Industrial Parkway, during the past week. The most serious was a domes tic dispute in which the victim, a 21-year-old black female, told police that her common law hus band had called to tell her he was coming to their residence to “teach her a lesson for the lies she had been telling.’’ The woman told police she had no idea what he was talking about. The 26-year-old black male entered the apartment, broke the glass in the door of the oven, grabbed the victim by her arm and dragged her to a closet, the woman said, where he “verbally abused her and threatened to kill her.’’ In the process, he dam aged the closet wall and bath room door with her fists. At one point, he grabbed a metal table leg and threatened her with it. Three minor children allegedly witnessed the event. Other Incidents Other incidents requiring police presence during the past week include: cer’s service pistol as the officer was trying to deploy his pepper spray. Both times, the officer said, he knocked Kelley down. But when Kelley allegedly reached for the officer’s groin, the officer was able to spray Kelley in the face, after which he held Kelley down until a backup arrived. The report did not state the rea son for the domestic dispute, but indicated that two women claimed Kelley hit them in the mouth and bit them in the nose. Other Arrests Others arrested by city police during the past week include: •Brian Allen Rousey, 20, 101 Timber Lake Circle, Royston, charged with driving under the influence (DUI), following too closely, underage consumption of alcohol and misdemeanor pos session of marijuana. According to the incident report, Rousey had been involved in an accident. The report said Rousey told the officer that he, Rousey, was the designated driver for a passen ger, Terrence Lee Garnto Jr., 27, 248 Tanglewood Street, Royston. Rousey was charged with DUI after he allegedly flunked a field sobriety test. The drug charge came after a search of the vehicle turned up two plastic bags of mari juana and items related to the use of marijuana, according to the report. The search also turned up a bottle of beer. Garnto was also charged with misdemeanor pos session of marijuana. •Aeryal Lashae Martin, 21, 64 Pine Street, Danielsville, speed ing and driving with a suspended license. •Dennis Dewayne Schoolcraft, •theft by taking at Crossing Place Apartments in which a 23-year-old white male said someone entered the tool box in the back of his truck and stole a tool bag, a tool box, an electric saw, two batteries and a charger. • entering an auto at Crossing Place Apartments. A 27-year-old black male said someone broke out the back windshield of his vehicle. •a burglary at a Pine Street residence where a 54-year-old white male told police that someone attempted to enter his residence by kicking in the patio door, during which they broke a window by the side of the door. The thief or thieves also removed screens from windows. The man reported that a small ceramic heater was missing from his bathroom, but was not sure how the person or persons entered the house. •possible simple battery and cruelty to children reported by a 31-year-old black female who told police that her 12-year-old son came home from his grand mother’s house with bruises to the right side of his face and 40,5822 Stephens Road, Oakwood, picked up in Hall County on an unspecified Commerce warrant. • Mary Ann Allen, 34,133 Baugh Street, Commerce, DUI-drugs, fol lowing too closely and endanger ing the life of a child while DUI. The charges were filed following a traffic accident when the offi cer observed that the suspect did not know what happened, had bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and was slow to react. The report said Allen indicated she had taken Lortab for pain related to a kid ney stone. •Karen Hammond Parr, 43, 322 Cabin Creek Road, Commerce, driving with a suspended license and no insurance. •Darrel Joe Wilder, 39, 420 Old Colony Place, Commerce, aggra vated assault and battery under the Family Violence Act. The charges followed an argument between Wilder and his girlfriend over a “strange’’ number that appeared on her cell phone. The woman told police that Wilder wanted to know whose number it was, and she was unable to tell him, he took her into the bathroom, filled a sink with water and tried to drown her. She said she pulled the stopper and while he was try ing to replace it ran out the back door and fell down the steps. The report said Wilder denied the sink story, claiming the woman had hit him in the face, after which he grabbed her arm, she fled and fell down the steps. The officer, observing water on the bathroom floor, the sink stopper on the floor and other supporting evidence, appeared to conclude that the vic tim’s account was accurate. legs. The report indicated some uncertainty as to whether the injuries were the result of abuse or a seizure the boy had while at his grandmother’s house. • criminal damage to property at a South Broad Street address where a 32-year-old white male told police that someone appar ently backed into his vehicle while he was at work. The man seemed to think the other vehi cle was a garbage truck. •a report of a lost cell phone, possibly at Fred’s or Ingles on South Elm Street. •a burglary at an Orchard Circle residence where a white female said she came home to find a back window pushed in and her TV, DVD player and lap top computer missing. The offi cer noted that the thief entered by pushing a window air condi tioner unit into the residence. • shoplifting at CVS Pharmacy, North Elm Street, where a clerk told police that two black males entered the store and one of them removed two six-packs of Dove Soap as the other stood lookout. The two were last seen running behind Hardee’s, across the street. A 20-year-old Commerce man remains in stable but critical condition at an Athens hospital after being shot seven times on the afternoon of Monday, Dec. 31. Police have charged Derrick Howard, 21, of 25 Bennett Street with aggravated assault in the shooting of Brandon Mason, 20, of a Pine Avenue address. Mason is being held in the Jackson County Jail with out bond and is subject to fur ther charges, said Chad Knight, head of the Commerce Police Department’s criminal investi gation division. “He will probably be charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and pos session of a firearm during the commission of a crime,’’ Knight said. Details of the shooting remain sketchy. Knight said officers were sum moned to the emergency room of BJC Medical Center after Mason walked in. He was shot seven to eight times in the chest, stomach, arm and leg, accord ing to Knight. Knight said Mason identified Howard as the shooter, and other witnesses reported seeing Howard shoot Mason repeated ly, after which Mason fell back ward off the porch. Howard has not admitted to the shooting, Knight noted, and the cause of the incident remains unknown, although Knight said there is some talk of a feud between the two. 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