Police probe street robbery case

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June 27, 2009

Anonymous The Cordele Dispatch Sat Jun 27, 2009, 02:55 PM EDT

From STAFF REPORTS

CORDELE — Local police have received another report of a robbery on city streets.

The victim in the latest complaint was a man who told Sgt. Jeremy Taylor he was at a 16th Ave. W. location shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday when a shirtless black male wearing black pants with a red stripe robbed him.

After taking the victim’s money, the offender ran into a nearby house that police searched shortly thereafter without finding anyone inside. Additional information about the case was obtained from two women who apparently witnessed the robber fleeing the scene on foot.

In other recent activity, officers:

— Recovered two stolen pistols that were taken by nightclub employees searching a man entering their 11th St. S. business just before 1 a.m. Friday.

Lt. Louis New took possession of the .38-calibre weapons one of which had been previously reportedly stolen in the city and the other in the county.

— Investigated three vandalism cases.

Robert McGlamory told Sgt. Cecil Rogers that sometime between 8:30-9 p.m. Thursday his 2000 Ford Ranger was “keyed” completely around the body while the vehicle was on the Wal-Mart parking lot.

Alfonso Clark told Rogers that while he was away from his room in a boarding house at 202 11th St. S. someone tore his door off its hinges.

A Flowers Bakery Thrift Store employee told Sgt. Dean Brown that someone had cut two padlocks and removed them and a 10-foot chain from a trash dumpster outside that 16th Ave. E. location.

— Received a complaint that a slender white male of medium height with dark hair that appears to be balding has been harassing females in the Whisperwood Apartments complex on 16th Ave. E.

Sgt. Robert Green was given the name of and possible place of employment for the suspect. In checking out that information, Green said he was told the subject only worked for about a week and was believed to be living out of an abandoned car somewhere in the city.

— Probed a theft report filed by Mary Beal of 503 21st Ave. W.

The victim told Sgt. Rogers an air conditioner valued at more than $500 had been taken from a west window of her home within the past five days.

— Answered two harassing telephone call complaints.

Patrolman Clinton Latham said one of the victims came to the police department and showed him her cell phone that contained “several threatening and verbally abusive messages” made by an unknown person.

Latham said another female victim gave him the name of a person who showed him where an offender she named had made 20 calls labeled as being restrictive.

— Arrested four women for shoplifting at the same location.

Patrolman Chris Forsythe was dispatched shortly after 9 p.m.Thursday to Beall’s on 16th Ave. E. where an employee said he had witnesses the subjects conceal merchandise from the store in their purses.

The officer recovered several items that were returned to the store and arrested Secondria Smith, 19, and Jasmine Smith, 17, both of 306-B 11th St. S., for a first theft by shoplifting offense. He also charged Salinda Hamilton, 18, of 2002 8th St. S., and Risisha Lashounta Davis, 20, of 714 13th St. S., with a second offense of shoplifting. Davis was also cited for contempt of court.

— Made a traffic case against a Cordele woman after becoming suspicious of a car they saw parked in the 1200 block of Fifth St. N. late Thursday night.

Ptl. Latham and Cpl. Barfield cited Pamela Eroyce Hughes, 34, of 305-A 20th Ave. E., for driving on a suspended license (second offense).

— Charged Javier Velazquez, 30, Bonifacio Lopez, 32, Gaspar Zamudio, 31, and Nansiso Saturnino, 41, with public consumption of alcoholic.beverages.

— Cited a 16-year-old girl for curfew violation and possession of alcohol by a minor after she interfered in a loitering investigation officers were making at an 11th St. S. nightclub shortly after 1 a.m. Friday.

— Made a loitering or prowling charge against Le’Allen Reshord Jackson, 17, of 725 Cloverdale Circle, and Gregory Towns, 38, of 611 19th Ave. W., after they were seen in the Sunset Homes area just before 3 a.m. Friday. Jackson ran, but was caught by Ptl. Latham after a brief foot chase.

— Investigated a terroristic threats and acts incident that occurred Thursday in the 300 block of 24th Ave. W.

The victim told Lt. New that two subjects approached him and that one of them lifted the shirt he was wearing, displayed a pistol tucked in the top of his trousers and told him there was no place where he could go because he was going to shoot him.

No trace of the two men could be found at the time.

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