Authorities were called to the park Saturday afternoon and saw the group swimming naked near the beach.
Disorderly conduct charges were added after two of the women yelled profanity near young children who were on the beach. When one of the women was put inside a deputy’s patrol car, she became irate and started beating on the car and using more profanity.
A witness to the nudity told officers she’d asked the group to put their clothes on and one of the suspects told her, “We don’t believe in bathing suits.”
Burglaries, thefts
— A Mallory Drive couple said a thief threw a brick through a window of their house and took $1,100 in items, including a laptop computer and jewelry.
— A utility trailer with a quick trench and storage containers worth a total of $4,500 was taken from John Loveless Road.
— A Hampton Green Drive resident said one of her neighbors took her Sears riding lawnmower, edger and leaf blower from her house and would not return the items.
— A Whitesville Road resident said a thief took her $479 Blackberrry Pearl phone.
— A resident of Ringer Road said several jewelry items were missing from her house.
— A resident of Ga. 54 in Hogansville said a $400 Honda tiller was taken from his shed.
— Items were taken from a vehicle in the 100 block of Cameron Pointe Drive.
— A resident of Lincoln Street said his daughter had her car towed to a shop on Ware’s Cross Road for repairs and the car was not there when he went to pick it up.
— A Brooks Road resident said several jewelry items were taken from her house within the last month.
— A thief broke into a car on Maley Road and took the car tag, along with a $200 iPod, tool box and tools worth $2,000, $100 hubcaps and a $100 car radio.
— A mailbox and post, worth $150, were taken from in front of a Hastings Court house.
— A tenant at Meadow Terrace Apartments on Mooty Bridge Road said a thief got into her locked apartment and took a $200 Xbox game system and 15 Xbox games worth $320. No damage was done to the apartment.
— A Bridgett Boulevard woman said a thief entered her house through an unlocked window and took a Dell desktop computer worth $800, Wii game system worth $250 and an Xbox game system worth $200 along with a $200 television and movies and a green screen worth $250. The house appeared to be ransacked.
Upside down
A woman was left hanging after a traffic accident Monday on Interstate 85 south of LaGrange.
Carolyn Brooks, 47, of Lanett, Ala., was northbound about 11 a.m. when she lost control of her Ford Taurus, which crossed the median and overturned into the southbound lanes.
Brooks was strapped in her seat belt upside down before Troup County firefighters freed her from the vehicle. She was taken to West Georgia Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries.
Man accused of car theft
Michael Antonio Grier, 31, of Cross Creek Drive, faces multiple charges after allegedly fleeing from lawmen in a stolen car Snday.
Police gave this account: Greer was spotted speeding on Colquitt Street in a Buick Rendezvous, and led officers on a chase to the woods near his house. Officers searched for him with a K9 dog and eventually were forced to get a search warrant for his house before he was arrested, found hiding in the attic under insulation.
The car’s owner said she’d left it at a local car wash to be detailed and hadn’t seen it since.
Grier was charged with theft by taking a motor vehicle, obstruction, fleeing and attempting to elude police, reckless driving and other traffic citations and taken to Troup County Jail.
Damage
— An employee of Highland Marina at 1000 Seminole Road said a customer rented a pontoon boat from the business and when it was returned, the propeller was damaged and the engine would not go into gear. Repairs were estimated at $650.
— An Avery Drive woman said vandals put sugar in the gas tank of her car. Repairs are estimated at $1,500.
— The owner of Don’s Dock Service at 2725 Roanoke Road said someone tried to break into a storage building on the property, causing $200 in damage.
— A four-wheeler for sale in a yard on Hillcrest Road was damaged during an attempted theft. The vehicle had been tied to a telephone pole but was found in the road with the lock cut and the key switch tampered with.
Arrests
— Matthew Ellington, 28, of Bartley Road was charged with burglary by deputies after he admitted to taking several items from a Jarrell Hogg Road house. The stolen items were returned to the owner.
— Lamar Edwin Jarman, whose age or address were unavailable, was charged with theft of more than $450 worth of cigarettes from Wal-Mart at 803 New Franklin Road, where he was employed.
Fire
A fire reported at 9:40 a.m. Sunday caused an estimated $25,000 damage at the home of Steven White at 110 Yarmouth Court in Hampton Green subdivision off Ware’s Cross Road.
The fire started in a laundry area, but the cause had not been determined.
- It is the policy of LaGrange Daily News to print the names of people charged with felonies.
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