Macon man: A burglar crawled out from under my house and bit me
On a recent afternoon in Macon, a 58-year-old man was walking up an alley near Third Avenue toward a house he apparently owns when he saw something strange: two men with a bag slipping out from under the house. One of the men, 19, ran off, but the other, 33, didn’t get away. The home owner, with the help of two other guys, ran the older suspect down. They held him on the ground until the cops got there. A Bibb County sheriff’s report said that the home owner “stated that while they were holding down the suspect, he was bit two times by the subject as he was attempting to get away.” Although one of the suspects got away, a bag they were toting — which the police found — had his ID card in it. The card had his name, age and address on it. The young man who was caught, later charged with burglary and battery, was said to have had burglary tools — wire cutters —in his pockets. The sheriff’s report said wires had been torn from under the house, and parts of a sink were missing.
A “tall, thin, disheveled” guy at the Circle K convenience store in the 2500 block of Riverside Drive caught the eye of a Bibb sheriff’s deputy the morning of Sept. 10. There’d been a report of a panhandler there earlier. The deputy, in his write-up of the incident, noted that he watched the guy walk into the store and grab a 20-ounce Cherry Coke and tuck it in his back pocket. “I approached him … and asked if everything was all right and he said he was very thirsty,” the deputy wrote. “I asked him to return the drink to the cooler if he had no intention of paying for it and … he complied but said loudly, ‘I’m dehydrated!’ I advised (that) he should not steal because we could get him a drink of water.” It turned out the suspect, a 27-year-old from Augusta, was wanted for shoplifting and, in fact, had four such prior convictions. He was jailed on another shoplifting charge after trying to pull away from the deputy.
Dispatches: A man who “appeared to be disturbed” was arrested at Bojangles on Gray Highway in east Macon on Oct. 9, a sheriff’s report said. The man, a 50-year-old Californian later charged with disorderly conduct, was reportedly pacing back and forth at the front counter. Someone at the eatery said “the subject had been acting irate and kicking and spitting” at customers. . . . An allegedly rowdy patient in the emergency room at east Macon’s Coliseum Medical Centers was said to have assaulted a nurse on Aug. 7. The patient, a 41-year-old man whose ailment was not noted in a sheriff’s report, said he threw a drink at the nurse, but only after the nurse “knocked his food off of his tray,” the report said. The patient, dressed in a hospital gown, was jailed on a charge of simple battery.
Note to midstate law enforcement agencies: Email reports of unusual situations your officers encounter to Telegraph reporter and Cop Shop columnist Joe Kovac Jr. at jkovac@macon.com.