Police said the victim had gone inside the store to purchase a pack of cigarettes. As he was headed to his vehicle, two men offered to sell him drugs. He refused, got into the car and one of the men took the money from his hand.
The victim followed them toward Lucy Morgan Homes demanding his money, and the two thieves ran behind the apartment complex.
The case is under investigation.
No poison likely in heating vents
A LaGrange man called police, saying he was afraid that residents of the apartment above him were putting a poisonous substance in his heating vents.
The man told officers the residents above were stomping on the floor and threatening to kill him along with putting the substance in his vents.
Police told the man that was unlikely because each apartment has its own vent system.
Arrests
— Sonya Jean Anderson, 38, of North Cary Street was charged with five counts of unauthorized use of a financial transaction card.
— Bobby Ray Jones Jr., 36, of Killeen, Texas, was charged by Troup County sheriff’s deputies with bail-jumping out of state and failure to appear.
— Michael Jason May, 26, of Hamilton Road in Pine Mountain was charged by LaGrange police with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school zone, possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime and driving on a suspended or revoked license.
Damage
Someone caused about $400 damage to a chair and the carpet of a room in the Town and Country Motel at 712 New Franklin Road.
Wreck
Two people were treated at West Georgia Medical Center after their vehicle was struck in the rear on Morgan Street near Greenville Street.
Police said Michael Jamal Ford, 19, of Ridley Avenue was traveling on Morgan Street in a Ford vehicle about 1 p.m. Tuesday. He told officers he thought the light was green, looked to roll his window down and struck the rear of a Honda Accord driven by Laleatha Potts, 44, of Juniper Street.
Ford was cited for following too closely. Potts and her passenger, Horace Cole, 30, of Everett Street, were treated at the medical center. Condition reports were unavailable this morning.
Smokin’ in the boys room?
Troup County sheriff’s deputies said it appears one or more students smoked marijuana in an eighth-grade boys’ restroom at Long Cane Middle School.
“I inspected the restroom and did find in the last stall evidence of where something had been burnt,” Deputy Phillip Johnson wrote in an incident report. “Residue on the floor and toilet seat, and a strange odor filled the restroom and hall.”
- It is the policy of LaGrange Daily News to print the names of people charged with felonies.
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