Peggy King
Cordele Dispatch
Cordele —
From STAFF REPORTS
CORDELE — City police officers arrested a 31-year-old local man on a cocaine possession charge while checking the Ninth Street-20th Avenue area for another wanted suspect.
Sgt. Ketorie Sales said he saw a subject subsequently identified as Anthony Thomas of 310 Sixth Ave. W. walking rapidly. Upon being approached by the officer, Thomas reported began acting “very nervous” while visibly shaking.
The officer said during a patdown search he found a small amount of suspected cocaine in his possession.
In other activity on Tuesday and early Wednesday, officers:
— Responded to an aggravated assault incident in which shots fired at a man shortly after 3:30 p.m. only struck his truck instead.
The complainant told Sgt. Charles Hill he was visiting his girfriend at an Oak Ave. address when a subject he named came to the door, told him he had splashed water on him the other day and warned that if he came outside, “I got you.” The offender then rode off on a bicycle.
The complainant said he later left his girlfriend’s home and upon passing the offender on Second Street heard two shots fired at him. One of them struck the trunk of his car.
The dispute between the pair apparently flared up hours later as officers were dispatched to Crisp Regional Hospital where the alleged shooter was being treated for a broken jaw and the apparent victim for broken facial bones.
Those injuries apparently occurred when they got into a fight. As a result, the investigating officer has requested that affray and aggravated assault warrants be issued against both men.
— Received a fraud complaint from a couple who reside in the 600 block of 23rd Ave. W.
The victims told Sgt. Robert Green that a woman related to them had used their personal information to claim them on her income tax return. The IRS has been notified.
— Arrested Joseph Allen Mann, 60, of 405 18th Ave. E., on a shoplifting charge.
Management personnel at Harvey’s told Sgt. Charles Hill shortly after 9:30 a.m. they had caught Mann with two packages of meat and a box of spice concealed under his shirt. The items had a total value of $10.
— Probed a pair of theft complaints.
A patron of Dollar General’s Seventh St. S. location told Sgt. Hill that while shopping there someone removed her wallet from a buggy. She said the wallet contained $95 in cash, a driver’s license, a Social Security card and a Wal-Mart Visa card.
A 10th St. S. resident told Lt. Lloyd Anderson that when she went to Cordele Mini-Storage located under the Fifth Street overpass she found that someone had cut the lock off a unit she had rented.
Missing were two sets of bunk bed and queen bed rails, a curio cabinet, a microwave, a bedroom dresser, two 16X20 wall pictures and three table lamps with an estimated total value of almost $700.
— Took Keefus Bernard Smith Jr., 23, of 811-B Broad St. into custody for probation violation. Sgt. Robert Green was the arresting officer.
— Responded to a criminal trespass complaint.
A resident of the Sunset Homes apartments on 23rd Ave. W. told Sgt. Hill someone cut the front door screen of her residence and wrote vulgar obscenities on the entrance door.
— Said a Toshiba laptop was stolen in a burglary that took place in the 300 block of 18th Ave. W. Sgt. Robert Montgomery investigated the complaint.
