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INCIDENT REPORTS December 26, 2018
The following incidents were reported by the Forsyth Police Department
and the Monroe County Sheriff's Office Dec. 14-18:
Gilmore Road resident her purse at the time of the theft,
roports lhoft of ~l'sos including three credit cards, three
debit cards, two checkbooks, two
from Ford Expedition Social Security cards, a driver's
license, a passport, a hearing aid
At about 7:11 a.m. on Dec. 17, and an unknown amount of cash.
a female Gilmore Road resident
told Cpl. lake Justice that at
about 6:45 a.m. that rooming
she got into her black 2004 Ford
Expedition and reached for her
purse, which she thought was in
the passenger seat. The resident
said she was in a hurry to get to
work and kept driving but said
she then discovered her passen-
ger side door was not secured.
The resident said she previously
drove her vehicle at 2 p.m. the
day before and never used her
passenger side door. The resident
said she then returned home and
discovered two purses were sto-
len from her SUV, one from the
front seat and one from the back
seat floorboard. She said another
family member's vehide had also
been opened. The resident said
a number of items were inside
discover THC
oil, n'mn]uena c jmetl
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A 21-year-old white Dawson
man was arrested and charged
with Violation of the Georgia
Controlled Substance Act and
possession of marijuana after a
traffic stop on Hwy. 42 South on
Dec. 15. At about 5:25 p.m Dep.
Christian Sawley saw a 2005 Ford
pickup truck with an expired tag
traveling on Hwy. 42 South. Saw-
ley then smelled the odor of raw
marijuana coming from the truck
and told the male driver that he
intended to search the truck.
Sawley and Cpl. Timothy Camp-
field then found inside the center
console two marijuana cigarettes
and suspected THC oil. When
Sawley asked the driver if the
substance would test positive for
THC oil, the driver first said he
thought so before saying he was
99.99 percent sure that it would.
Sawley then took the driver to
the Monroe County Jail, where
he was also charged with having
expired registration.
Maryland mr
At about 1:08 a.m. on Dec. 14,
a Forsyth man told Cpl. Thomas
Haskins that sometime the
previous week he was notified by
Credit Karma that his personal
information was accessed by a
Waldorf, Md. car dealership, Wal-
dorf Ford. The man said he then
contacted Waldorf Ford but did
not hear back from them until
several days later when the deal-
ership notified him that a loan
for $50,000 had been taken out in
his name and a vehicle had been
delivered to an Atlanta address.
Waldorf Ford representatives told
the man they had already filed a
police report with their local au-
thorities and were trying to track
down the vehicle. He said the
representatives told him also to
report the identify theft with the
Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
Marijuana, suspected
heroin found in vehicle
in Boxankle Road stop
A 49-year-old white Forsyth
woman was arrested and charged
with possession ofmetham-
phetamine and possession of
marijuana after a traffic stop
on Boxankle Road on Dec. 18.
At about 9:55 p.m Dep. Chris
Sherrell stopped a silver 2008
Chevrolet Equinox on Boxankle
Road and smelled a strong odor
of marijuana coming from the
vehicle. Sherrell determined the
male driver, a 51-year-old white
Jackson man, was wanted out of
Butts County and arrested him.
However, the driver and a female
passenger each denied having
anything illegal inside the vehicle.
Sherrell, CpI. Jacob Robins and
Dep. Peyton Henderson then
searched the vehicle and found
under the rear seat a Newport
cigarette box containing a small
bag of marijuana, a few small
marijuana cigarettes and a small
bag of suspected heroin. Depu-
ties then found a glass pipe inside
the passenger's jacket pocket.
Deputies then took the drugs into
evidence, and both the driver and
passenger were taken to the Mon-
roe County Jail.
Deputy tases Forsyth
man who refuses to
enter patrol vehicle
A 20-year-old white Forsyth
man was arrested and charged
with obstruction and destruction
of government property after
he allegedly refused to comply
with a deputy's orders on Dec.
17. At about 2:30 p.m Sift. Cody
Maples saw a man with an active
arrest warrant at the intersection
of Indian Springs Drive and Mize
Street in front of Ink Wizard
tattoo shop. When Maples tried
to arrest the man, he refused to
put his hands behind his back or
put his cigar down. As Maples
finally was able to handcuff the
man, the man shouted profani-
ties at the deputy and refused to
get into Maples' patrol car. The
man told Maples: "You're go-
ing to have to fight me to get me
inside the car" The man then
acted as if he was going to try to
run away, so Maples kneed him
in his left thigh as the man again
said, "You aren't getting me inside
the car:' Maples then threatened
to use his taser on the man, but
the man still refused to comply.
At that point, Maples tased the
man in the stomach, and the man
got inside the patrol car and was
taken to the Monroe County
Jail. Once at the jail, the man
refused to stand against the wall
so he could be searched. When
he was then put in a holding cell,
he kicked the door several times
with his foot, leaving large prints.
He later stood on top of a toilet
and knocked out a large ceiling
tile. The man then asked several
jail officers if he would face more
charges if he escaped through the
ceiling while again threatening
officers to fight him.
Hwy. 87 man reports
theft of drawer, DVDs
from Mazda Protege
At about 6 p.m. on Dec. 18, a
Hwy. 87 man told Dep. Peyton
Henderson he arrived home from
work and noticed the car door
to his 2003 Mazda Protege was
open. The man said a dresser
drawer containing an assortment
of DVDs was missing from his
driver's seat.
The following arrests v, ere reported by the Monroe County Sheriff's O~ e Dec. 17-20.
An arrest means someone has been charged with a crime,
but the law considers them innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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WLIliam
Herbert
Lairsey, 20,
Forsyth, ter-
roristic threats
and acts,
criminal tres-
pass, battery,
interference
with govern-
ment proper-
ty, obstruction
co-Reyes,
58, Houma,
La speeding,
reckless driv-
ing, passing
within 200
feet of oncom-
ing traffic,
passing in a
no-passing
zone
Timothy
Olane Smith,
Dana
Leigh Buice,
49, Forsyth,
possession
ofmetham-
phetamine,
possession of
marijuana
Juana
G. Juare~-
Mendez, 62,
Cairo, speed-
ing, driving
while license
suspended/
revoked
Janle$
Langham,
36, Ma-
con, public
drunkenness,
disorderly
conduct,
obstruction
Necole
Alexia
Smith, 25,
Macon,
driving
while license
suspended/
revoked
27, Forsyth,
theft by shop-
lifting
Jason Stan-
ley, 48, Macon,
failure to appear
Austin Lane
Whafley, 21,
Forsyth, hav-
ing no insur-
ance, driving
while license
suspended/re-
voked, expired
registration,
seatbelt viola-
tion
Brian Lee
Williams, 38,
Jackson, theft
by taking
Darrius
Craig, 29, Ma-
con, violation
of windshield
requirements,
driving while li-
cense suspend-
ed/revoked
Terrance
Latrel Dumas,
24, Forsyth,
theft by taking
Joseph
Jovan Wilson,
29, Orlando,
Fla possession
of a Schedule
IV controlled
substance,
driving while
license sus-
pended/re-
voked
lustin
Christopher
Yale, 22, For-
syth, violation
of probation,
simple battery
I.ee Enett 36,
takdar Fl,x,
possession of
THCo ,posses-
sion ofmeth-
amphemm
possess nof
session ofdrug
rdated ect
drugsnotin
o 'r a on n
Marco An-
tonio Medina,
28, Macon,
speeding, driv-
ing without a
valid license
Morgan
Brittany
Turner, 30,
Lakeland, Fla
possession of
methamphet-
amine
Bekzod
Bakhtiyarovi
Umarov, 33,
Orlando, Fla
failure to obey
traffic control
device, obstruc-
tion
"Ihenardo
Renard
Wright, 45,
Lakeland, Fla
commercial
vehide driver
qualification
violation
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By Walter Geiger
news@barnesville.com
A Macon man still at large
after a high-speed chase on
Johnstonville Road in Monroe
County on Dec. 4 has a trou-
bled history. Authorities have
identified the driver as Thomas
Mason Porter, who was one of
five people arrested after the
murder of Bibb County deputy
Joseph Whitehead on March 23,
2006.
Whitehead was shot and killed
as he and other officers served a
no-knock warrant at an alleged
drug house in Macon.
Porter was among those
arrested. He later went to prison
for possession of cocaine with
intent to distribute in the after-
math of the shooting and was
released on parole on Sept. 24,
2010.
Porter now faces more prison
time after the chase, which
began on 1-75 at about 4:15 p.m.
on Dec. 4. Lamar County Sgt.
Anthony Thompson and Dep.
Hunter Hemphill saw a white
2018 Dodge Charger weav-
ing across the fog line of the
southbound lane and stopped
it. Porter, 32, was the driver.
He had his license in his trem-
bling hand outside the driver's
window when Sgt. Thompson
approached. Thompson thought
he smelled marijuana as he
approached but the smell was
quickly overcome by the smell
of a burrito on the console and
an air freshener hanging from
the rearview mirror.
Porter said he was coming
from Southlake Mall and the
Charger had been rented by
his "baby mama". Thompson
went to the front of his vehicle
to check Porter's license and
Hemphill noted he also could
smell marijuana in the vehicle.
When he went back to the
driver, Thompson noticed a
blunt wrapper and Porter said
he smoked them but had no
marijuana in the car. Porter
denied permission to search
the Charger and Thompson
asked him to step out of the
car so a K9 could be deployed.
Porter refused, reaching for
the floorboard beneath him.
Hemphill came to Thompson's
aid and, when he opened the
door, Porter sped off. The depu-
ties pursued him south and the
chase reached speeds in excess
of 100 mph as it went into
Monroe County.
Porter veered off the interstate
at lohnstonville Road at the last
second. Thompson could not
make the turn and went up the
opposite on ramp instead. At
the top, he found the Charger
wrecked. A bystander reported
the driver had fled into the
woods.
Tracking dogs from Monroe
County could not find Porter.
Deputies found 11 pounds of
marijuana in vacuum-sealed
bags. Also found were cereal
and gummy bears laced with
THC oil. On the floorboard
where Porter had been reaching
was a black Smith & Wesson
handgun which had been stolen
in Atlanta.
Porter is still on the loose.
He faces charges of trafficking
in marijuana, possession of a
Schedule I controlled substance,
theft by receiving stolen prop-
erty, possession of a firearm by
a convicted felon, possession of
a firearm during commission of
a felony, fleeing and attempting
to elude, reckless driving and
failure to maintain lane.
In the 2006 incident,
Whitehead was shot in the
head as he broke down the
door of the drug house. Lamar
County Sheriff Brad White and
Whitehead had attended police
mandate school together. "He
was my buddy" the sheriff said.
The others arrested at the
drug house were Antron Fair,
Damon Jolly, Cynthia Green
and Hassan Harclerode.
Testimony revealed both Fair
and Jolly fired shots during the
raid. They claimed they did not
realize they were shooting at
deputies.
After multiple delays over
six years, Fair pled guilty and
got life with the possibility
of parole. Jolly also entered a
plea and got life with the pos-
sibility of parole after 14 years.
Charges against Green were
dropped. It is unclear ff Porter
and Harclerode were ever pros-
ecuted for Whitehead's death.
Fair remains at Hancock
State Prison. Jolly is serving
his time at Smith State Prison.
Harderode did a prison stint
for obstruction and possession
of marijuana prior to the shoot-
ing. He was paroled in 2001 on
those charges.
The U.S. Marshal's fugitive
squad is heading up the ongo-
ing search for Porter.
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