‘That’s your job, ain’t it?’ Man forces Bibb deputy to drag him into jail
Hauling people to jail is part of a police officer’s job. But what a 145-pound man who was allegedly resisting arrest made a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy do recently was perhaps above and beyond the call of duty. It seems the man in question had, in mid-October, drawn the ire of the landlord at his Beech Street boarding house. The landlord said the troublemaking tenant was drunk and, as a sheriff’s report put it, “extremely boisterous and disorderly” when he busted two windows. The sheriff’s deputy, late on the night of Oct. 14, was called to deal with the disturbance but the tenant ran off, shedding his shoes as he scampered away. Later that night, in the wee hours of Oct. 15, the deputy was called back to the house, where the barefoot tenant, 30, had returned. The deputy ordered him not to run or that he would be zapped with a Taser. As the deputy escorted the man toward his patrol car, the man denied having run away earlier and then, the report noted, tried “with all his strength” to spring free. But the deputy held on. After a tussle and after the man refused to budge, the deputy toted the man toward the car, careful, the report said, to avoid being bitten by the fellow. “I had to basically carry his entire body weight the entire distance to my vehicle,” the deputy wrote. “He screamed and acted in a manic and violent manner.” After more struggles, the deputy shoved the guy into the car for the ride to jail. When they got to the county lockup, the deputy wrote, “I opened my back door and asked him to step out and not to make me drag him inside. … He refused and stated, ‘That’s your job, ain’t it?’” So the deputy grabbed the man by his ankles and dragged him on his back into the jail, the report said. When they got inside, it took four deputies to get the man under control. He was charged with obstruction and trespassing.
Dispatches: It isn’t uncommon for typos to make their way into police reports. The Cop Shop sees its share. Then again, they are to be expected considering that many write-ups are made on in-car computers, laptops mounted in cramped cruisers, and the reports often are typed up in the middle of the night. A recent typo, however, stood out. Two people were fighting at a house on Houston Avenue. One of the combatants, the report noted, struck the other “with a lamb.” The weapon appears to have been not a young sheep but, rather, a lamp. . . . In late September, a 19-year-old Macon man whose mother told the cops that he had been “out of control” for the past day was arrested after he reportedly “poured some liquid” on her car and threatened her. The teen was jailed on a disorderly conduct charge. He was said to have been angry that his Xbox was missing.