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The
Commerce News
FEBRUARY 20,2008 • Page 7A
Commerce Police Department Arrests
Ex-Boyfriend Faces Multiple Charges
The Commerce Police Depart
ment reports that warrants will
be taken out on a 26-year-old
Maysville man on a variety of
charges stemming from a domes
tic incident on Valentine’s Day
at the residence of his ex-girl-
friend.
Dusty Ray Dockery 132
Ridgeway Terrace, Maysville, will
be charged with false imprison
ment, burglary, hindering a 911
call and simple assault.
According to the responding
officer’s written report, a 35-year-
old white female told police that
Dockery, her ex-boyfriend, came
by shortly before noon. The vic
tim said she refused to let him in,
but he broke a lockbox contain
ing a key and got in.
The report said he came in yell
ing that he wanted to talk to her
about her new boyfriend. She
said she did not want to talk
to him and told him to leave
because she had an appointment,
the report said.
But Dockery refused to let her
leave, and when she attempted
to call 911, he slammed her cell
phone against a wall. Almost two
hours later, her parents arrived to
see why she had not met them.
The report said Dockery let the
victim open the door, and when
her father came in, Dockery threw
him to the floor and began trying
to hit him.
During the melee, someone
managed to call 911, so Dockery
fled the scene, according to the
report.
Arrests
Those arrested or cited during
the past week and the charges
against them include:
•James Michael Brewer, 34, 151
Pine Street, Commerce, obstruc
tion of officers, public drunken
ness and criminal trespass. He was
arrested by an officer respond
ing to a report of a white male
knocking on doors and asking for
money. When the officer spotted
Brewer and asked him to stop,
Brewer fled into the woods, the
report said. It also said he admit
ted to consuming two 22-ounce
beers earlier in the day.
•Bobbie Elaine McElreath, 34,
57 Green Street, Commerce, dis
orderly conduct after she alleg
edly got into a fight with friends
who were checking on her wel
fare.
•Johnny Lee Pittman, 32,
56 Martin Luther King Drive,
Commerce, on an unspecified
warrant as police stopped to talk
to a black female they saw hitting
the door of Pittman’s residence
with a stick and yelling obsceni
ties. Police charged Tammy
Neilphinia Tarpkins, 31, 35 Pine
Avenue, Commerce, with disor
derly conduct.
•Steven Randall Samples, 33,
151 Millcreek Road, Dahlonega,
picked up in Forsyth County on a
local probation violation warrant.
•Christopher M. Bocock, 50,
262 Pine Street, Danielsville, driv
ing under the influence (DUI) of
alcohol. The charge came after a
motor vehicle accident.
•Jamell Harrison, 24, 800
Greenhaven Drive, Apt. IN,
Greensboro, NC, driving with a
suspended license. He was pulled
over on Interstate 85 for a wind
shield violation.
•Tommy Michael Stephenson,
53,220 Thomas Drive, Commerce,
for a taillight violation and driving
with a suspended license.
Commerce Police Department Incidents
Doctor Victimized By Prescription Fraud
The family of a medical office
manager is suspected of multi
ple cases of prescription forgery,
according to an incident report
filed by the Commerce Police
Department.
The doctor called police after
she was contacted by the Wal-
Mart pharmacy in regard to sev
eral prescriptions of “high-dose
narcotics’’ supposedly written by
the doctor.
The report said she asked the
pharmacy to fax over the infor
mation and she received “several
pages’’ of prescriptions.
One of the names used was that
of a patient she’d seen for the first
and last time Aug. 6, who is a rela
tive of the office manager — who
is on a maternity leave.
The doctor said she called the
office manager at home, and the
woman told her that she’d been
cleaning out her bag and found a
prescription pad. “It’s now gone,’’
the doctor quoted the woman as
telling her.
The doctor noted that all of the
suspects are members of the man
ager’s family.
Other Incidents
Other matters involving a police
presence during the past week
include:
•shoplifting reported at Fuel
Mart, Maysville Road, where a
clerk reported that a suspect —
whose name is known to the clerk
— pocketed an electric grinder.
•entering an auto at the
Kangaroo convenience store,
South Broad Street, where a
27-year-old white female said
someone removed a cell phone
left laying on the seat of her
vehicle.
•terroristic threats and acts
reported from Farmers Furniture,
North Broad Street. The manager
told police he had called a 67-year-
old black male to get more infor
mation for a credit check, and the
man told him, “I should just blow
the (expletive deleted) place up,’’
then hung up.
•harassing phone calls report-
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ed by a 27-year-old white female
who said her ex-boyfriend made
six calls to her Preston Court resi
dence in spite of a temporary pro
tective order she’d gotten against
him. The woman told the police
that he’d fled to Alabama follow
ing a recent incident in Barrow
County.
•theft of $16.42 worth of gaso
line from the Flying J travel plaza,
Maysville Road. The report indi
cates that the clerk got a tag num
ber for the red Dodge Neon.
Commerce Child
Subject Of
Nationwide Search
A nationwide search is under
way for a 4-year-old Commerce
girl “kidnapped’’ by her father
from the Cumming residence
of her aunt.
Jerry Jones, 51, allegedly took
Madison Kerr early last Friday
morning when he learned that
Hall County officials planned
to arrest him on bond violation
charge. Jones was arrested in
December on child molestation
allegations after he allegedly
inappropriately touched four
girls in his third grade class at
Gainesville Elementary School.
He resigned after school offi
cials questioned him about the
matter and was subsequently
charged.
Jones was exercising his visi
tation rights, noted Detective
Chad Knight of the Commerce
Police Department.
“He had visitation rights,’’
Knight pointed out. “He had just
as much right as the mother, but
he had to be supervised by the
mother or his sister, who he was
living with in Forsyth County.’’
The new charges stemmed from
some alleged violation of a
court order related to his bond,
Knight suggested.
The Commerce Police has
little to do with the case since
the alleged crime occurred in
Forsyth County, although there
could be “some issues of inter
ference with custody,’’ Knight
said, “since he didn’t bring her
back when he was supposed
to.
“We’ve entered it as a miss
ing and endangered child,’’ he
said, “just for the safety of the
child.’’
The girl’s mother, Renee Kerr,
has told officials that she does
not believe Jones would hurt the
couple’s daughter, Knight said,
but realizes “that fleeing puts
her at risk.’’
The U.S. Marshal Service
has entered the case since it is
believed that Jones has fled the
state.
Knight said the incident
occurred when Kerr called her
husband to let him know Hall
County officials had a warrant
for his arrest and to ask him if
he needed anything.
“He said he wanted to pray,’’
an Atlanta TV station quoted
Kerr as saying.
Knight said Kerr supports her
husband. “She is adamant that
all of the original charges are
not true,’’ he said.
Meanwhile, officials have
established a hotline number —
1-800-366-0102 — and are pursu
ing leads, including tracing his
whereabouts as he uses credit
or debit cards, Knight said.
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