Police said the woman was arguing with her roommate about the covers, when the two began cursing at one another. The victim tried to leave the room, and the other pulled her back.
The victim told officers that her roommate shoved her in the back as she was leaving the room, knocking over a glass end table and shattering it, before she knocked a coffee table out of the way and began choking her on the floor.
The charged woman told officers the victim had punched her in the mouth before walking into the living room and breaking the end table and flipping the coffee table.
After the woman was handcuffed, she refused to complete a videotaped statement in front of the officer’s vehicle because she said she was afraid of snails, and the yard was filled with them.
Burglar cooks collard greens
A woman knew that a thief had broken into her house after she found a pot of collard greens that she had left in the refrigerator cooking on the stove.
Police said $10 was taken from the residence in the 600 block of Park Avenue.
Rainy wrecks
Emergency personnel responded to four traffic accidents during Tuesday’s unrelenting rainfall.
The most serious happened about 3:30 p.m. on East Boyd Road near Hogansville-Mountville Road. Three persons were injured and taken to West Georgia Medical Center, and county firefighters used the “Jaws of Life” power tool to free one occupant from the wreckage.
Two people were taken to the hospital after a wreck about 1:30 p.m. on Interstate 85 north of LaGrange, and two others went to the hospital after a wreck about 8:50 p.m. on Hamilton Road.
Names of the injured and details of the wrecks were unavailable from the Georgia State Patrol.
Thefts, burglaries
— More than $7,000 of items was taken from a residence on Beallwood Drive in West Point.
— A thief took an XM Satellite Radio tuner valued at $110 from a vehicle in the 900 block of Broad Street and let the air out of three tires.
— An air-conditioning unit valued at $4,000 was stolen from an apartment in the 3300 block of Roanoke Road.
— Items valued at $700 were stolen in a residential burglary in the 200 block of Almond Road.
— MLB Contracting reported the theft of an estimated $3,300 worth of equipment from a work truck at 6530 Hogansville Road.
Wrecks
— A man was taken to West Georgia Medical Center following a two-car accident at Davis Road near Lafayette Parkway.
Police said Anthony Hodo, 18, of LaGrange was waiting in his silver Ford Crown Victoria to take a left into the LaGrange Mall parking lot about 5:20 p.m. Monday when he was struck in the rear by a green Saturn SL1 driven by Catlin Carter, 16, of Woodridge Circle.
Hodo was treated at the medical center and released.
— Three people were injured following a two-car accident about 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
Police said Bernique Cameron, 16, of Iris Drive was traveling Northwoods Drive toward Bailey Way in a silver Toyota Camry when a red Nissan Quest driven by Jacqueline Velizmedrano, 28, of Bailey Way ran the stop sign at the intersection, pulling into Cameron’s path.
Cameron and passenger Angela Smith of Northwoods Drive were treated at West Georgia Medical Center and released. Police said Velizmedrano was also treated, but no record was available from the hospital.
Velizmedrano was cited for failure to stop at a stop sign and driving unlicensed.
Man faces weapons charges
A Jackson Street man was arrested after allegedly pointing a sawed-off shotgun at a group of people in Benjamin Harvey Hill Homes.
Police said Antonio Hines, 31, had gotten into an argument with the woman and resident’s boyfriend in the 1000 block of Baldwin Street about 15 minutes before approaching them with a rusty .410 bore sawed-off shotgun.
Another woman jumped out of the resident’s vehicle as she was taking them home, stood in the door as he approached with the weapon and told him it wasn’t worth it while grabbing him by the shirt. A group of men then took Hines away.
Officers saw him running toward some woods near Chatham Street, and the weapon was found on the ground.
He was caught and charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a sawed-off shotgun, carrying a concealed weapon and obstruction.
Boy, 5, injured in car wreck
A 5-year-old boy was injured in a car wreck after his mother’s ex-boyfriend wrecked the vehicle into a tree on West Meadow Way Drive.
Police said the man was allegedly helping her put various items into the vehicle before deciding to drive it around the block Sunday. He struck the tree and took the child out of the vehicle, then drove him to West Georgia Medical Center. The boy complained of abdomen and back pain, and he had burn marks and scratches on him.
At the hospital, the man told officers that the brakes gave out and he had to pull up on the parking brake to get the vehicle to stop. Police determined the man was traveling between 55 and 65 mph when he hit the brake.
The boy was treated at the medical center and released.
The man was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving injuries, driving while unlicensed, obstruction and reckless driving.
- It is the policy of LaGrange Daily News to print the names of people charged with felonies.
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