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• On December 1 a burglary complaint was filed at a Meadow Ridge Drive location after a woman reported that while she was watching television she heard a noise coming from a bedroom down the hall from her living room. The complainant said she rolled her wheel chair to the hall and noticed a woman crawling down the hall. The complainant said she told the woman she was going to call the police and the crawling woman said she was looking for the complainant’s son, who, she said owed her money. The crawling woman then fled the house.

• On November 27 a disorderly conduct and cruelty toward child complaint was filed at a Overlook Drive location after a woman reported that a man known to her had sent her daughter to her room and then allegedly told the daughter that if she didn’t like it she could “hit the road and take her (expletive) mama with her.” The man then allegedly threw both a plate and a fish bowl, containing a fish, at the woman. The man then left in a mini van.

• On November 23 a theft of services complaint was filed at an Eatonton Road restaurant after a manager reported that a large, heavy-set man had ordered meals on at least two occasions but had not paid for the meals. On the first occasion the man ordered regular milk and a scrambled egg breakfast with turkey sausage for $9.27. On the second occasion he ordered a scrambled egg breakfast with turkey sausage but upgraded to a large milk. Cost of the second meal was $9.77.

• On November 26 a fraud of illegal use of credit card complaint was filed at a South Main Street location after a woman reported that someone had used her credit information to make a purchase in India for $1,232.31. Someone also tried to use the card to charge $2,000 and $1,000 but the charges were denied.

• On November 28 a criminal trespass complaint was filed at a Harris Street location after a woman reported that someone covered a 2005 Honda Civic with plastic wrap and petroleum jelly.

• On November 26 a 15-year-old male was arrested and charged with shoplifting and minor in possession of alcohol after he and three others, allegedly took items from an Eatonton Highway grocery store without paying. An officer located the suspect after he returned to the store. Police were called when a maintenance man reported that three teen males and a female had taken frozen food items, drinks and eye medicine. When an officer spoke with the 15-year-old he also noticed the smell of alcohol on the teen. The teen was later turned over to his mother. The other three allegedly involved were not arrested at the time.

• On November 27 a fraud complaint was filed at an Eatonton road location after a man reported that someone had used his debit card to withdraw $1,734.28 from several locations in Italy.

• On November 30 a criminal trespass complaint was field at a Morgan Circle location after a woman reported that she and a man known to her had engaged in a verbal argument and the man had damaged her Sony cell phone. The woman said she then smacked the man on the head with the damaged cell phone and requested that he leave the property. The man did but slammed the door on the way out damaging the woman’s index finger.

• On November 30 a fraud complaint was filed at a West Washington Street location after a man reported that someone had used his credit card account six times in a Home Depot in Bronx, New York for a total of $933.54 in fraudulent charges.

• On November 30 a theft by conversion complaint was filed at a car rental location after a woman reported that a customer who had rented a vehicle following the crash and subsequent loss of his personal vehicle had not returned the vehicle or paid for the rental. Reports state that the man rented a $25,000 Chevrolet Silverado on September 12. For a month the man’ insurance company paid for the rental but then stopped. The man was contacted and allegedly stated that he would return the vehicle but has not done so. The vehicle and the man are now both wanted by authorities.

• On December 1 a battery complaint was filed at a North Main Street convenience store after a woman reported that after she had given a man two cents because he was short the man left the store but returned and allegedly squeezed the woman’s buttocks. A verbal confrontation ensued, reports state, and continued into the parking lot.

• On November 24 three theft by receiving stolen property warrants were issued for two men and a woman after a man reported that one of the men delivering a CD Player to the woman was the same one that had been stolen from him in April. Officers observed the CD player in the woman’s vehicle. Both the woman and a man with her reported that they had purchased the player from a third man for $35. The other man disputed this statement.

• On November 26 a fraud complaint was filed at a Carmichael Drive location after a woman reported that while she was attempting to file her 2006 tax returns he learned from the IRS that someone else had filed a return and received a $2,000 refund using her name. The complainant said it was not possible that she filed the return because she was incarcerated at the time.

• On November 24 a simple assault complaint was filed at an Eatonton Highway motel room location after a woman reported that on November 22 her boyfriend had attacked her at the room of the motel, striking her on the mouth, ribs, chest and head. The woman said the next night while she was at a club she ran into the man again and he followed her to a Sulgrave Drive location where he allegedly struck her in the mouth. The woman then reported having abdominal pain and believes she had a miscarriage. The woman told officers she had not filed a report when the incident occurred because she had been drinking.

• On December 1 a battery complaint was filed at a Micha Way location after a woman reported that her son had beaten her and her boyfriend because the complainant’s mother had forced the son to move out. Morgan County Sheriff’s Office

• On December 3 an 11-year-old male student at Morgan County Middle School was arrested and charged with having a weapon on school property after authorities confiscated a two and half inch bladed knife from the student. Reports indicate that several students reported observing the arrested student with the knife.

• On November 26 a harassing phone call complaint was filed at an Old Mill Road location after a woman reported that over the weekend someone had been calling her mother’s cell phone, cussing and then hanging up. When an officer tracked the number he spoke with a woman who said she had not called the number but she had a mentally retarded son who might have called. The woman said she would correct the problem and stop the calls.

• On November 30 a harassing phone calls complaint was filed at a Cox Road location after a woman reported that another young woman had sent threatening emails to her daughter from her MySpace account. The daughter said the other young woman was also calling repeatedly and threatening her. While the officer was filing the report the other young woman called and denied ever calling and threatening. Later the other young woman called the City of Madison Police Department and filed a charge that the complainant and her daughter had in fact been harassing her. The deputy told both parties to stay away from each other or file for a temporary restraining order.

• On November 30 a financial transaction card fraud report was filed at a Wagnon Mill Road, Bishop location after a woman reported that she had received a call from her credit card company informing her that someone was attempting to use her credit card to charge $2,549.39 at a beauty shop in Sweden.

• On November 30 a theft by deception complaint was filed at a High Shoals Road, Bishop location after a woman reported that while her four-year-old son was in an Atlanta hospital she met a man advertising a wheel chair. The complainant said she liked the produce and that the man left a sample wheel chair with the woman for three weeks. After three weeks the woman wrote the man a check for $5,180 to order a wheel chair. The man told the woman to make the check directly to him so he could take his commission “off the top.” Several months have elapsed and the woman has not received the wheel chair or her money back. The wheel chair company told the woman that the man was fired on November 30.

• On November 28 a vandalism report was field at a Heidi Trail, Buckhead location after a woman reported that during the night someone had wrapped her 2002 Toyota RAV4 with plastic wrap and had poured some type of petroleum-based liquid on the vehicle. The liquid had damaged the vehicle’s paint, reports state. The complainant said the act might have something to do with a disagreement between her daughter and other girls at Morgan County High School. Several suspects in the act were named but no arrests have been made.

• On November 28 a theft by taking complaint was field at a Newborn Road, Rutledge location after a woman reported that someone had taken her white and blue 2006 pop-up Fleetwood camper.

• On November 27 a simple assault complaint was filed at a Reid’s Ferry Road, Buckhead location after a man reported that while he was completing a job a co-worker directed him to request more money than the man had previously negotiated for the job. The complainant refused and after the pair had left the job the other man requested more payment for the job. When the complainant again refused the other man allegedly held a knife to the complainant’s throat and again requested more payment. The knife allegedly cut the man’s throat, the report says.

• On November 27 a 15-year-old female was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after she allegedly began to berate her mother and a probation officer at the Morgan County Courthouse. Reports state that an officer requested that the girl be quiet but the girl refused. Eventually the girl was placed in handcuffs and leg irons and transported to the Regional Youth Detention Center in Sandersville.

• On November 21 a burglary complaint was filed at a Paxson Dairy Road location after a woman reported that someone had entered her house from an upstairs location and removed several items including three Dell laptop computers, six purses, a Louis Vitton handbag, silver coins, digital cameras, two XBox 360 game stations, 100 CDs and other items.

• On November 22 a battery complaint was filed at a Newborn Road, Rutledge location after a man reported that after he exited a Rutledge grocery store a man known to him confronted him in the parking lot and beat him on the head. The man said after a brief but intense physical confrontation, the complainant reached into his mother’s vehicle and retrieved a gun. The attacker then allegedly fled the scene. Prior to this incident the man who allegedly initiated the grocery store confrontation had come to the complainant’s yard and was drinking beer and allegedly taunting the complainant. The complainant said at that time he requested the man leave and when the man wouldn’t leave he fired a shot in the ground. The complainant said the man later returned with a shotgun, pointed the gun at the complainant and then someone threw a brick through the complainant’s car window. The incident allegedly involves a female that both men knew.

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