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The
Commerce News
JUNE 3, 2009
PAGE 6A
On The Record
Convenience Store
Cashes $ 7K Worth
Of Bogus Checks
A Commerce convenience
store cashed more than
$7,900 in forged checks
last Thursday, according
to the Commerce Police
Department.
Police responded to The
Corner Station, Washington
Street, twice that after
noon. In the first incident,
the owner told police his
son had cashed eight “bad
checks" valued at $3,459,
for a group of latinos. Police
came back later to find the
same man complaining that
he’d cashed a check for
$3,950 that also turned out
to be bad for an unidenti
fied customer.
In the second incident, the
victim gave police a copy
of the driver’s license and a
sheet allegedly containing
the fingerprint of the person
who presented the check.
Other incidents last week
include:
• the passing of two coun
terfeit $ 100 bills by two black
males who presented them
to the Citgo convenience
store on Maysville Road.
Both cashed in $10 winning
tickets from a lottery game,
then use the phony cash to
pay for other tickets.
•shoplifting at the Flying
J, Maysville Road, where a
customer told store person
nel that a man stole a $25
pair of sunglasses. The wit
ness got a tag number.
• battery at a South Broad
Street Extension residence
where a 31-year-old white
female reported that her
32-year-old white male boy
friend threw a soda can at
her, bruising her leg.
• theft by taking at a
Barber Street residence
where a 60-year-old white
female said someone stole
her push mower and weed
trimmer — total value of
$111. She gave police the
name of a suspect.
• criminal damage to prop
erty at the Hospital Road
office of Dr. John Middleton,
where someone knocked
over four mailboxes.
• criminal trespass at
the State Street office of
Emergency Billing. The
owner reported that some
one threw a rock through a
window and told police that
she’d had problems with
juveniles throwing rocks to
damage her building for two
years. The officer noted that
four incident reports are on
record.
• criminal trespass at
Hardee’s parking lot, in
which a 42-year-old white
female reported unspecified
damages to her vehicle.
•shoplifting at Ingles. The
store manager told police he
observed two black males
looking around in the front
of the store and followed as
they exited without paying
for groceries. He grabbed
one of the men, who bit
the manager in the arm,
and both men fled into the
woods. Police could not
locate the suspects, but they
had a car the two apparently
arrived in towed away.
Commerce Man's Throat Cut In
Argument Over A Crying Baby
A he-said-she-said incident
precipitated by a couple’s
argument over a crying
baby sent a 37-year-old man
to the emergency room of
BJC Medical Center with a
cut carotid artery last week.
An officer of the Commerce
Police Department inter
viewed the black male
victim. He told police he
was in bed at a Park Street
address, when his girlfriend,
a 34-year-old white female,
came in yelling that she was
tired of their baby crying
all the time and that she
could not take it any more,
according to the report.
The man said when he
began to get out of bed that
the woman hit him in the
face with her fist. He got
the baby to try to calm it, he
told police, but the woman
began hitting him. He put
the child down, pushed his
girlfriend away and she “hit
him on the head" at which
time he noticed he was
bleeding.
The woman had a differ
ent version. She told police
that when she awakened
the man, he started hitting
her in the face. The officer
could find no marks on her
to support that allegation.
The woman said she asked
the man if he was trying to
kill her and, if so, she would
do it herself, at which time
she picked up a box cutter.
When she acted as if she
was going to cut herself, she
said, he came towards her
as if to hit her. She “threw up
her arms in front of her face"
to protect herself, which is
when the man’s neck was
slashed, she told police.
No charges were filed.
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Commerce Police Department Arrests
Police Arrest Six On Drug Charges
The Commerce Police
Department filed seven
drug charges — two of them
felonies — against six sus
pects during the past week.
The felony charges were
for possession of metham-
phetamine.
An officer pulled Jeffery
Scott Williamson, 40, of
818 Cabin Creek Drive,
Nicholson, over for doing
44 miles per hour on Broad
Street. The report said the
driver told the officer he
did not have his license
with him, but the officer
noticed that Williamson
was extremely nervous and
shaking to the extent that
he had difficulty getting his
wallet out.
As the officer was doing
a computer check on
Williamson, he noted that
the suspect was chain
smoking, shaking and kept
looking at the officer in his
rear-view mirror.
In conversation,
Williamson allegedly
admitted a prior arrest for
possession of methamphet-
amine, and he denied the
officer’s request to check
the vehicle. The officer
called Williamson’s proba
tion officer and found that
Williamson had waived his
Fourth Amendment right —
meaning the officer needed
neither his permission nor
probable cause to search
Williamson or the vehicle.
As the officer was about
to search the suspect, he
reported seeing Williamson
take something out of his
pocket, as if to conceal it.
When the officer asked
about it, the suspect alleg
edly dropped it in the bed
of the truck. The object con
tained two plastic bags con
taining methamphetamine,
according to the report.
Williamson was charged
with possession of meth
amphetamine and posses
sion of tools for the com
mission of a crime.
A second felony drug
arrest also stemmed from a
traffic incident. An officer
reported stopping to assist
a motorist whose vehicle
had stalled downtown.
Running the occupants’
information on comput
er, the officer discovered
that one of the occupants,
Henry Shane Thompson,
37, 230 McConnell Drive,
Gainesville, had an out
standing warrant from Hall
County.
A backup officer pat
ted down the two men for
weapons, during which he
allegedly found two plas
tic bags on James Robert
McDaniel, 24, 118 Old
Harden Orchard Road,
Commerce. One of the bags
contained marijuana, the
other methamphetamine,
the report said. McDaniel
was charged with posses
sion of marijuana and pos
session of meth.
Other Charges
Others charged or cited
by city police during the
past week include:
• Katrina Lattice Maxwell,
26, 173 Baugh Street,
Commerce, misdemeanor
possession of marijuana.
No details of the arrest
were available.
•William Joseph Ball,
47, 61 Billie Dean Drive,
Jefferson, misdemeanor
possession of marijuana,
driving with a suspended
license, violation of the
open container law and
following too closely. The
investigation started with
a traffic accident at which
the officer noted the smell
of alcohol and asked Ball
if he’d been drinking. The
suspect said he’d just had
“a swallow" of beer before
the mishap. Police found an
open 32-ounce container of
beer in the back seat and a
small bag of marijuana in
the front passenger seat,
according to the report. Ball
was charged with misde
meanor possession of mari
juana, driving with a sus
pended license, following
too closely and violation of
the open container law. In
addition, he was arrested
on a child support warrant
from Madison County and
a probation violation war
rant from Powder Springs.
•Dixielee Griffin, 19,
1975 Mineral Springs Road,
Hoschton, and Robert
Allen McDaniel, 21, 415
Heritage Hills Apartments,
Commerce, both charged
with misdemeanor posses
sion of marijuana by an
officer assisting with a med
call who smelled burnt
marijuana and noticed
them passing a cigar back
and forth.
•Raul Martinez, 32,
818 Cabin Creek Drive,
Nicholson, failure to main
tain a lane, failing to reg
ister a vehicle and driving
without a license.
•Matthew J. Mann, 20,
309 South Hill Street, Apt.
C, Griffin, picked up on
a Spalding County felony
warrant during the inves
tigation of a claim by a
63-year-old white female
that he’d stolen some of
her medications.
•Anthony Santerio
Johnson, 20, P.O. Box
123, Monroe, picked up in
Monroe on an unspecified
local warrant.
•Tiffany Nicole Garrett,
24, 74 East College Avenue,
Commerce, on a failure to
appear warrant. She was
released after a friend paid
her fine.
• SashaOctaviaPatterson,
23,280 Hollow Ridge Drive,
Athens, driving with a sus
pended license.
•Olurotimi A. Oyekan,
33, 6673 Hesters Court,
Clarkston, picked up
from the Dekalb Sheriff’s
Office on an unspecified
Commerce warrant.
•Ashley Nicole Guest,
21, 273 Trout Lane,
Commerce, picked up from
Banks County on a failure
to appear warrant.
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