Dollar General spitter lands in jail after saliva strikes Macon cop’s nose, police say
A Bibb County sheriff’s investigator happened to stop by a Dollar General store on the southern edge of downtown Macon one afternoon to buy a Red Bull energy drink. A clerk there informed the investigator that a man shopping “had been cursing out customers” and the clerk wanted the man gone, a report of the Jan. 31 episode said. The investigator told the man he needed to leave. The man, 54, was carrying some items he was going to buy, but was told to put them down and exit the store. “Oh,” he huffed, “so I can’t buy my (expletive)?” The investigator again told the man to take a hike. “He looked at me and down to my badge … and stated, ‘Man, (expletive) you, (expletive),” the investigator’s write-up noted. “He then ‘hocked’ and spit on me. Spit struck my nose.” As the man walked away, the investigator grabbed his wrist and handcuffed him. The man was charged with disorderly conduct and simple assault on an officer.
Dispatches: It happens more than you might think: neighbors stealing electricity from neighbors. And so it apparently was several months back in a neighborhood off Allen Road. A Bibb sheriff’s deputy was called to a house on Knowles Drive near Houston Road, where deputies had been summoned previously about the same issue. A woman there with her grandson led the deputy to a neighbor woman’s backyard. According to the deputy’s report, they showed the deputy where extension cords were running from the neighbor’s house and plugged into an outlet outside the grandmother’s house. “I followed the extension cords (three or more),” the deputy’s report noted, “to the neighbor’s house and it led to a shop in the backyard. Another led to the house. I knocked on the door and only the dogs barked. No one came to the door.” Warrants for theft by conversion and criminal trespassing were issued for the neighbors. . . . One day late last year, a woman on Hartley Street, which runs off Houston Avenue in south Macon, called the cops to report that a guy who lives with her had “become angry.” A sheriff’s deputy who went to check on the problem later wrote in a report that the man, 30, was mad “about something someone had told him” about the woman, 29. Though the report of the Nov. 30 incident doesn’t mention specifics about the scuttlebutt, the woman informed the deputy that “the news was old and they had fought about it before.”