Elder was unable to provide a further description of the car and the store’s video cameras don’t work, police said.
In another case at the mall, Bookland manager Thomas Daugherty said a woman came in Friday morning and asked for help with a book in the rear of the store. While the manager was distracted, her male companion made off with four hardback books from the “Michael Jackson Vault.” They were valued at $50 each.
Daugherty said he watched them get into a car and leave, but he couldn’t provide a description of the vehicle and the store doesn’t have a video camera.
Arrests
— Anthony Moore, 24, of Maley Road was arrested about 2 a.m. Friday on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of meth-amphetamine, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and no insurance.
A LaGrange police officer said he saw Moore pull up to a gas pump at Racetrac convenience store on Lafayette Parkway, but not put any gas in the car.
“I observed Moore continuously look in my direction as he exited the vehicle in a nervous manner, aimlessly walking around the vehicle,” officer Ray Ham said in the incident report. “This behavior immediately aroused my suspicions that something may be illegal with either the vehicle or the occupants.”
Moore agreed to let the officer search the vehicle and that’s when Ham found three bags of pot, methamphetamine, a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun and a .22-caliber rifle.
— Sheriff’s deputies and police officers Friday arrested Gloria Dean Reed, 55, at her home on Johnson Street in West Point on warrants for three counts of selling cocaine. A man at the house, Fredrick Lamar Darden, 47, of Valley, Ala., was arrested for cocaine possession after he was found with a rock of crack wrapped in a lottery ticket. Another man, Willie Rufus Hill, 58, of West Point was charged with possession of marijuana and probation violation.
The arrests took place after an undercover drug operation in the West Point area.
Also arrested Friday on cocaine-selling charges were Antonio Lee Hargett, 31, and Eddie Lamar Love, whose age was not available, both of West Point.
Thefts
— A resident of the 400 block of South Lee Street reported the theft of his 1997 Buick Park Avenue valued at $1,500. The victim said whoever drove it off wouldn’t make it far because the water pump was bad.
— Two weed trimmers were taken from an unlocked shed in the 200 block of Rutland Circle. The victim said he leaves the shed open so neighbors can borrow his tools and heard dogs barking in the middle of the night behind the house earlier this week. The tools were valued at a total of $262.
— A LaGrange woman told police Friday that her car was parked with the windows down in front of a Hamilton Road house and while she was there for about 30 minutes, someone stole her purse from the floorboard.
The woman wouldn’t give police the address of the house and didn’t want to meet officers there, so she drove to the 100 block of East Lukken Industrial Drive to report the incident.
Taken along with the purse was $250 in prescription medication.
— Lawn tools valued at $105 were stolen from a shed in the 100 block of Tyler Road.
— Two firearms valued at $1,200 were stolen from a residence in the 100 block of Independence Court.
n A resident of the 3100 block of Mobley Bridge Road said two Georgia Tech flags valued at $25 were stolen from the windows of his vehicle.
Vandalism
A resident of Tall Pines apartments at 150 Turner St. said someone flattened all of her car’s tires and put several scratches in the side of the vehicle. Damage was estimated at $2,000.
Guilty pleas
Gregroy James Sharp, 25, of China Grove, N.C., was sentenced to five years in prison and $250 restitution after he pleaded guilty to a burglary at LaGrange Landscape on Lukken Industrial Drive.
Sharp had claimed a man pulled a gun and tried to rob him, and he scaled the fence around the business to get away from the robber. He tripped two or three alarms and a police canine tracked him to a storage. Police yelled for him to come out, but he refused until the dog went after him.
“He had no explanation of why he didn’t come out,” said assistant district attorney William Hocutt IV. “The fence was topped with barbed wire, and there were no cuts on his hands.”
Police later found a big hole in the fence where Sharp apparently had entered.
Others sentenced after pleading guilty in Troup Superior Court were:
— Termayne Demetrics Pettaway, 33, of Prichard, Ala.; 10 years in prison and a $200,000 fine for trafficking in cocaine. Nobody expects to collect the mandatory fine.
— Jasmon Jermaine Blackmon, 21, of LaGrange; 10 years in prison for a videotaped cocaine sale in the 400 block of Ashton Street.
— Quinetta Lashaun May, 32, of Mobile, Ala.; five years in prison and five years’ probation for possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
— Travis Damon Harris, 30, of LaGrange; five years in prison for two counts of selling cocaine.
n Darren Martin Simpson, 44, of LaGrange; four years in prison for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
— Henry Lee Trammell, 39, of LaGrange; three year in prison and seven years’ probation for possession of cocaine, obstruction of officers and theft of a cell phone.
— Cordarell Cortez Smith, 22, of Columbus; three years in prison and three years’ probation for possession of marijuana.
— Terrance Lamar Mosley, 28, of LaGrange; three years in prison and seven years’ probation for sale of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute.
— Anthony Dale Dutton, 33, of LaGrange; two years at the Troup County Correctional Institute and three years’ probation for theft by receiving stolen property. He also has to pay a $500 fine and $220 restitution.
- It is the policy of LaGrange Daily News to print the names of people charged with felonies.
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