Police probe robbery at gunpoint

From STAFF REPORTS



CORDELE — A Cordele man told city police officers he was robbed of a Playstation 3 game system at gunpoint while walking in the 500 block of Sixth St. N. early Monday afternoon.

The victim said four black males — one of whom was armed with a silver semi-automatic handgun — jumped from a green Chevrolet Cavalier and demanded that he surrender the game system.

After the victim complied, the four jumped back into their car. The victim said that while running toward his nearby home he saw the car head north on Seventh Street.

In describing the offenders, the complainant said two of them had dreadlocks and two had low hair cuts. At least two of them were wearing blue jean shorts and a third was wearing black shorts. All of them, he said, wore “stylish shirts,” two of which were striped.

A lookout was placed for the vehicle but neither it nor its occupants was ever located.

In other activity, officers:

— Investigated three vandalism cases at local businesses.

At Harris Waste Management on 12th Ave. W., Sgt. Jeremy Taylor said someone broke four windows between noon Saturday and early Monday. Total damage was estimated at $1,628.

At the Crisp County Extension Office on 13th Ave. W, Lt. Lloyd Anderson said an employee told him that when she arrived for work shortly after 7 a.m. Monday she found the front door glass cracked. The officer said it appeared as if it had been shot with a BB gun.

At Crisp Medical Equipment located at 403 Fourth Ave. E., Lt. Anderson said that an employee told him when he arrived for work Monday morning he observed the gas cap on a company van was not in place. In looking into the tank, the complainant said sugar or sand appeared to have been poured into it.

— Received a harassing telephone call complaint from a woman who told Sgt. Carrie Lull her two daughters had received two vulgarity-filled threatening messages from a teen-ager she named.

The investigating officer subsequently arrested a 13-year-old offender for harassing phone calls and terroristic threats.

— Made several assorted arrests.

Sgt. Ketorie Sales said he was on routine patrol when he saw a subject he had earlier named on a cruelty to children warrant enter a Sunset Homes apartment. After requesting assistance from other officers, Sales said he took Shakeen Amin Burks, 27, of 809 15th Ave. W., into custody at 609-C 23rd Ave. W.

PFC Clinton Latham arrested Morris Battle, 55, of 507 12th Ave. W., for criminal trespass after observing him standing in front of Dollar General’s Seventh St. S. location where he had been banned for previous loitering and panhandling violations.

Lt. Louis New cited Timothy Clark, 39, and Chiquita Hill, 29, both of 108-A 13th St. S., for disorderly conduct after being called to their residence in reference to the latest disturbance in which they were involved.

— Responded to a pair of theft complaints in which the victims had items stolen from their cars.

One of the complainants told Sgt. Lull that while she went into the post office just before 8 p.m. two black males entered her vehicle and stole her purse containing a wallet, Social Security card, a Samsung/Verizon cell phone and approximately $80 in cash,

She saw them running from the area as she returned to her car and said one was wearing a black jacket and blue jeans and the other had on blue jean shorts and a shirt she could not describe.

The other victim said that while she was inside a 24th Ave. W. supermarket last Thursday someone entered her vehicle and took her wallet containing Social Security card, a money card and an insurance card.

— Said burglars stole a color television set valued at $350 from a local physician’s office.

Lt. New said the TV was taken from Dr. William Pannell’s 416 Fourth Ave. E. office where a west window was broken to gain access to the building.

— Recovered a television set stolen from United Hospice at 708 16th Ave. E. upon finding it in the possession of two men seen traveling together on Eighth Avenue near Fifth Street shortly after 1 a.m. Tuesday.

Lt. New said one of the offenders initially told him he had found the TV in an alley and that each of the subjects was blaming the other for its theft.

When it was determined that Christopher Carroll, 25, and Billy Gene Pearson, 33, both of 100 Denmar Rd., were at the storage shed when a door was kicked in to gain access to the TV they were cited for burglary.

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