From STAFF REPORTS



CORDELE — Multiple traffic charges have been filed against a local resident whose car was stopped by Cordele Police Department officers early Friday morning for an improperly displayed tag.

Pvt. Clinton Latham cited Johnny Ferguson, 23, of 1409 Drayton Lane, with improper tag display, violations of tag light and tail light lense requirements, driving with suspended or revoked license and possession of an open container of alcohol while driving.

The charges were filed after the officer pulled over Ferguson’s car at the intersection of 16th and Central avenues shortly after 3 a.m.

In other recent activity, officers:

— Investigated two fraud complaints.

Beverly Clark told Pvt. Bruce Gourley that a person she named had used her bank debit card to make a bill payment of $405.54 to Alltel which now has the case under investigation.

Lequetta Barron told Cpl. Charles Pheil that while she was on an overseas tour of military duty a relative she named ran up a $963 bill in her name to Dish Network.



— Received xxxx vandalism complaints.

Kesha Sanders told Cpl. Charles Pheil that someone damaged the rear passenger side quarterpanel of her 1996 Honda while it was parked in the 400 block of 22nd Avenue West.

Ernestine Peavy reported to Pvt. Gourley that someone apparently hurled a small piece of brick through a rear window in her 606 N. Third Street home Wednesday. A small decorative figurine also was damaged by the missile.

Tonya Neal told Pvt. Gourley that someone had kicked the front door of her Spring Lane home hard enough to break the door jam.

— Responded to a nuisance complaint filed against Your Supermarket located at 605 16th Ave. W.

Col. Lewis Green said residents of that area had complained to city commissioner A.J. Rivers that meat products dumped out the back door of the store in and around the dumpster were creating a “stench, flies and maggots” that were intolerable.

The officer told store management to have the area cleaned and to call for a garbage truck to come and make a pick-up. The health department was also notified of the problem.

— Charged a 16-year-old juvenile with simple battery, third degree cruelty to children and criminal trespass after being called to his Sheppard Road home to investigate an altercation he was having with his mother.

— Made four arrests for public consumption of alcoholic beverages.

— Cited April Lynette Cross, 19, for battery after she allegedly struck another women in the face with her fist during a dispute about plums being taken from a tree on McLeod Circle.

— Arrested Tomario L. Carter, 26, of 706 S. 15th St., for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. Ptl. Christina Martinez said she saw in plain sight a small bag of “pot” in Carter’s car that he left parked in the 600 block of 20th Ave. W. while he ran inside his girffriend’s home briefly.

— Transported to the Crisp Regional Hospital emergency room a man who was standing in the middle of the Seventh Street-16th Avenue intersection shortly after midnight while yelling that he wanted to be hit by a car. After telling the officer he was hearing voices telling him to jump in front of cars and vans, the man agreed to seek medical help.

— Investigate the thefts of a $150 Sony cell phone from 306-A 17th Ave. W., two hamburgers from a drive-through window at Wendy’s, a boy’s bicycle from 808 15th Ave. W.

— Made three arrests after being called to investigate a Thursday afternoon disturbance at the 402 Seventh St. S. location of Dollar General.

Amanda Joe Odom, 22, of 601 N. Hickory Street, and Krystle Clark, 22, of 606 Juniper St., were cited for battery and two counts of third degree cruelty to children and Sharllaw Gladney, 17, of Arabi, was cited for simple assault, possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and third degree cruelty to children after they got into a fight in the parking lot.

Police later made four shoplifting arrests at that location. Cited were Freddie Mae Lewis, 40, of 1408 W. Sheppard Court; Eula Williams, 48, of 401 22nd Ave. W., Carletta Watson, 19, of 811-D Starr Place, and Latrina Shanette Dawson, 31, of 105 Fourth St. S.

— Answered a burglary complaint filed by a resident of the 400 block of 15th Ave. E.

The complainant told Ptl. Martinez that while members of her family were away someone entered the home and took a Playstation 3 and three games for it.

— Answered a stray animal complaint from a 316 13th Ave. E. resident who told Pvt. Martinez that a go came into her yard and killed a kitten. She said similar incidents have taken place before.