A woman told police a man took $150 and didn’t follow through after he said he would use his connections to fix her speeding ticket.

Police said the woman was talking to a friend about the ticket when a man who told her he was a mason with the city said he could use his “connections” within the city to fix the violation for $50.

She said she was led through a side door into a building she thought was the LaGrange police department and spoke with a cross-eyed man in civilian clothes who looked up her driver’s history, saw numerous speeding violations and said he couldn’t help her.

The mason told the woman he would have to speak with the officer in private because of all the information they were sharing. The man also told her she owed him $100 for the documentation and, later, another $50.

The woman told police she thought she had gone into a room in criminal investigations through a door. Officers told her there was no side door that could be entered without a code, the man wouldn’t have known the code to enter and there was no detective fitting the description of the cross-eyed man.

The woman was upset after paying the ticket and losing $150.

Women argue at drive-through

Two women got into an argument after one cut in front of the other’s vehicle in the drive-through line of Taco Bell at 314 New Franklin Road.

The alleged line-breaker told officers that the two had gotten into an argument about who was in front of whom Sunday. She then flashed her son’s toy badge at the other woman and said she was calling police.

Officers told both women not to say anything else to each other, get their food and go their separate ways.

Driver treated for read-end wreck

A Revis Street woman was taken to West Georgia Medical Center after her vehicle was struck in the rear.

Police said Rhonda Noles, 55, was sitting in her parked Buick Regal about 12:35 p.m. Sunday at Hines and Daniel streets when a white vehicle struck hers in the rear.

The driver of the other vehicle got out and told Noles she didn’t see any damage to either vehicle. Noles said she was frightened by the woman, drove home and called 911. No wreck reports were called in after the incident.

Noles was taken to the medical center, where she was treated and released.

Arrests

— Randall Benjamin Wright, 50, of Warm Springs was charged by Troup County sheriff’s deputies with rape.

— Justin Eugene Hill, 24, of Lanett, Ala., was charged by Troup County sheriff’s deputies with theft by receiving a stolen vehicle, fleeing and attempting to elude police, reckless driving, failure to comply with a traffic control device, improper license tag, driving on a suspended license and five counts improper passing in a no pass zone.

— Samuel Louis Penson, 43, of Sharpsburg was charged by LaGrange police with burglary.

— James Morris Hardaway, 43, of Grantville was charged by Troup County sheriff’s deputies with two counts of selling cocaine.

— Derrick Copeland, 30, of Manchester was charged by Troup County sheriff’s deputies with escape.

— Samuel Caleb Smith, 20, of Greenville was charged by Troup County sheriff’s deputies with selling $42 worth of methamphetamine.

Damage

Someone shattered the front window of a residence in the 100 block of Northwoods Drive, causing less than $500 damage.

Thefts, burglaries

— A thief stole video game systems and games, including an Xbox 360, and a 50-inch Samsung flat-screen plasma TV, with a total value of $2,300 from a residence in the 500 block of Everette Street.

— An antique muzzleloading shotgun valued at $700 was stolen from a vehicle in the 1000 block of Hill Street.

— A thief stole a set of jumper cables, car ramps and a box of Snap-on hand tools, with a total value of $320, from a utility room in the 100 block of Peachtree Court.

— Several campers were broken into at a hunting camp on Perkins Road near Hogansville.

Among the stolen items were two TVs and a conversion box, DVD player, about 100 CDs about hunting, five pillows, various clothing items, five knives, a propane stove, fan, space heater, flashlight, shells, a hitch receiver for hauling deer, reclining chair, three fire extinguishers, two frying pans, a large floor fan, cleaning supplies, three deer stands and a smoker grill.

The losses were estimated at $2,200.

— Items valued at $500 were stolen from a storage building at Upper Room Apostolic Church at 3479 Hogansville Road.

- It is the policy of LaGrange Daily News to print the names of people charged with felonies.