Perry police search for man accused of making ‘lewd, vulgar’ calls to GA businesses

Several businesses in Middle Georgia and South Carolina have allegedly received a string of obscene phone calls from the phone of a man the Perry Police Department hopes to arrest, the agency announced Thursday.

In one of many reported incidents, an employee of a Perry business got a “disturbing phone call” from a man, whose phone was found at Thomaston home, officers said in a news release.

“The employee reported that the caller made vulgar comments of a sexual nature while simultaneously performing lewd acts during the call,” the police department said.

Similar calls were reported in Warner Robins, Newnan and Horry County, South Carolina.

Perry police and the Upson County Sheriff’s Office searched a Thomaston home with a warrant and recovered the cell phone used to make the calls, officers said. The phone allegedly belonged to Michael Antwoine Hammond. But Hammond has not been detained.

Officers issued an arrest warrant for Hammond, but he was still at-large Friday morning, according to Capt. Jerry Jones, who oversees the police department’s Criminal Investigations Division.

Anyone who’s received similar phone calls was urged to report the incident to Detective Ike Wilcox at 478-988-2848 or john.wilcox@perry-ga.gov; or call Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 1-877-68CRIME.