Report: Employee pulled box cutter when foreman told him, ‘Get to work’

Dispatches: A worker at the Aspen Products plant on Avondale Mill Road in south Bibb County reportedly cut a foreman with a box cutter. The foreman, 38, confronted the worker, also 38, “about him getting back to his work station and gettting to work,” a sheriff’s report of the May 17 incident noted. The company makes paper plates and cups. Employees, according to the report, use box cutters to do some of their work. After the foreman confronted him, the worker is said to have become “irate,” making “derogatory race remarks” to the foreman. Both men are black. The worker allegedly began swinging a box cutter at the foreman, who grabbed the worker’s arm and was cut on his side and elbow in the tussle. The alleged attacker was gone when cops got there. . . . A 38-year-old Macon woman told the police that she was walking in a neighborhood near Holt Avenue, not far from the Mercer University campus, when another woman marched up and began accusing her of sleeping with her boyfriend. A sheriff’s report of the May 28 encounter notes that the first woman said “she had not slept with anyone.” Her denial didn’t deter the other woman from punching her in the back of the head. . . . On June 5, an alleged shoplifter described as “short, skinny, bald” went into a Dollar General Store on Houston Avenue in Macon. A sheriff’s report said he “stuffed some individually wrapped Chips Ahoy! down his pants and ran out.”

This story was originally published July 1, 2016 at 1:00 AM with the headline "Report: Employee pulled box cutter when foreman told him, ‘Get to work’."