Woman ‘attacked’ in Kroger ice cream aisle when another claims boyfriend stared at her
There was a fight inside the Kroger on Hartley Bridge Road the evening of June 23. A woman from Byron said she had dropped by the supermarket to buy some rice and other items when another woman, an apparent stranger, “attacked her,” a Bibb County sheriff’s report said.
The Byron woman, 22, explained that while she was in the rice aisle that “another female started staring at her and got in front of the rice.” The other woman, the report said, “would not move.”
So the Byron woman said “without touching the lady she reached around her and grabbed a bag of rice” and continued shopping, taking care “not to make any contact with the other woman,” the sheriff’s report noted.
But before long they apparently crossed paths again and the other woman accused the Byron woman’s boyfriend of looking at her. Later in the ice cream aisle, according to the Byron woman’s statement, the other woman crept up behind her and “pulled her hair and pulled her down to the ground,” striking her several times “with a closed fist across her head.” The alleged attacker, clad in a black shirt, blue jeans and red shoes, left the store and got away.
Dispatches: One morning in mid-June, a woman on Bowman Street in east Macon’s Fort Hill neighborhood alerted the police that she had seen her estranged husband walking up the road with their microwave. “Besides the microwave,” a sheriff’s report of the incident went on to note, “he took a pack of meat and some snack foods.” . . . A man suspected of drunken driving was questioned by sheriff’s deputies at a license checkpoint on Juliette Road in Monroe County in late May. A deputy later noted in a report that the man reeked of an “overwhelming odor” of alcohol. When asked if he had consumed any alcoholic drinks that day, the man, 49, answered with a nebulous, “I don’t think so.” The man then began shaking and when asked why he said, “Bad anxiety,” the deputy’s write-up stated. The man reportedly showed signs of intoxication and was arrested on a DUI charge after his 2013 Lincoln Continental was searched and cops found two empty bottles of vodka and an open cup of vodka in the car’s center console. “Yes,” the man said of the cup, “I made me a drink before I left the house.”