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The
Commerce News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
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On The Record
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Commerce Police Department Arrests
Police Tie Up Some Loose
Ends With Three Arrests
trol on Old Maysville Road,
drove over the grass at
Warren’s Package Store,
struck a metal awning,
crossed into the parking lot
at Presto’s, knocked down a
telephone booth and came
to rest — heavily damaged
— on the railroad tracks. A
white female got out and
left the scene with a white
male in a pickup truck.
Later, the officer was called
to a Richmond Way address
where a white male said
he let a white female from
Jacksonville drive the car
“while they were intoxicat
ed,’’ but she later took the
vehicle without permission.
arrested her.
Police also charged
David Lee Foster, 41, of 65
Sunny Lane, Commerce,
with battery related to an
Aug. 26 incident in which
he allegedly tried to force
a woman who had come to
his residence to get him to
fill out work-related paper
work to have sex with him.
In addition, police arrest
ed Yonah Wilson Peppers,
34, 7982 Hwy. 82 Spur,
Commerce, last week for
the Sept. 8 theft of hair care
products at CVS Pharmacy.
A store employee recog
nized Peppers as someone
she said had stolen from
the store earlier, and the
CVS video surveillance
system reportedly showed
Peppers taking the items.
The woman was able to
escape.
Other Charges
Others arrested or cited
during the past week
include:
•Monte Williams, 27,
229 Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard, Commerce, on
a local failure to appear
warrant and “numerous’’
felony warrants out of
Jackson County. After a
Commerce officer got a
tip that Williams was at a
Williamson Lane address,
he and a Jackson County
deputy went to the site.
The report said the officer
found Williams hiding in
the woods and held him at
gunpoint until other offi
cers arrived.
• Stepfon Marice
Faulkner, 23, 74 Jim David
Road, Nicholson, violat
ing the conditions of his
bond. The arrest report
indicated that the officer
pulled Faulkner over for
a noise ordinance viola
tion and questioned why
he was in “Johntown’’ in
violation of his bond.
Faulkner argued that he
was allowed to drive on
U.S. 441, but the officer
arrested him for violat
ing the bond’s conditions,
which prohibit him from
being in the “Johntown’’
area and the downtown.
He also cited Faulkner for
the noise violation.
•Juan Rivera, 48,
664 Ridgeway Road,
Commerce, driving with
out a license. He was pulled
over by an officer who rec
ognized him and knew he
had no license, according
to the arrest report.
•Benjamin Gillespie,
50, 25 Bennett Street,
Commerce, probation vio
lation. He was arrested
after an officer saw him
walking and knew he had
an outstanding warrant.
•Steven William Evans,
28, 517 Mt. Bethel Road,
Commerce, driving with
out insurance and driving
with an expired tag.
Technology For Boys & Girls
Commerce police chief John Gaissert, left, and Lt. Wes Donaldson, right,
pose with Michael Williams and Stacey Rucker of the Boys and Girls Club of
Jackson County, along with some of the computer equipment the department
donated to the club. The department replaced 14 computers, two scanners
and other electronic equipment recently and donated (and delivered) it to the
Boys and Girls Club. Photo by Mark Beardsley
In an unusually quiet
week, the Commerce
Police Department tied
up some loose ends with
arrests from incidents that
happened earlier.
A month after she fled
a Baugh Street accident,
the police arrested Katrina
Latrease Maxwell, 26,
of 721 Bald Eagle Road,
Carnesville, for hit and run,
no proof of insurance and
obstruction of officers.
On Aug. 18, an officer
responded to an accident
on Baugh Street, where a
19-year-od white female
said Baugh ran into her,
got out of her car to see if
the 19-year-old was okay,
said she thought there was
a warrant for her arrest,
and left the scene.
The 19-year-old followed
her to a Baugh Street
address and called police
so she could get an acci
dent report. According
to the incident report,
Maxwell admitted that
the accident was her fault
and told police she’d fled
because she was “scared.”
Maxwell was unable
to provide an insurance
card, and the investigat
ing officer told him she
could bring it to the police
station. That never hap
pened, and after calling
her repeatedly, giving her
a month and warning her
of the consequences, he
Commerce Police Department Incidents
Statutory Rape Or Domestic Dispute?
It may just be a domestic
dispute, but the Commerce
Police Department is inves
tigating the possibility of a
statutory rape.
The allegation came forth
from a 50-year-old white
male who came into the
police department and
alleged that his girlfriend’s
15-year-old daughter is hav
ing sex with an 18-year-old
man.
The complainant said that
he broke up with the girl’s
mother over the matter, but
the mother told him the girl
and boyfriend broke up,
which the man said proved
to be untrue.
Police spoke to the mother,
a 31-year-old white female,
who told them her daughter
had never had sex with the
man and that their relation
ship had ended “months
ago.’’ She further alleged that
she and the complainant,
who have a child together,
were “having problems’’ and
that “he was trying to get
her into trouble,’’ according
to the incident report.
Other Incidents
In another case, police
investigated a he-said/
she-said incident on Pine
Avenue.
A 28-year-old black female
alleged that a 29-year-old
black female pulled a
gun on her after the older
woman questioned whether
the younger woman was
sleeping with the 29-year-
old’s boyfriend.
When police talked to the
29-year-old she claimed that
the other woman produced
a knife during the discus
sion. She also told police
that she had a permit to
carry a gun but did not have
it on her at the time of the
argument.
Other incidents requiring
police intervention during
the past week include:
•a report of a runaway
juvenile by a 41-year-old
white male who said the boy
got in trouble at school and
did not board the bus to go
home that afternoon. Later
that day, the officer was told
that the boy had been spot
ted walking on North Elm
Street, but the officer could
not locate him.
•leaving the scene of an
accident at Old Maysville
Road near Presto’s. A wit
ness told the officer that
a vehicle went out of con
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