At 3 a.m., officers were called to Whitesville and Fairfax streets where a couple said they had been walking down the street and heard two males who had been walking behind them start running. When the woman turned around, one of the men said, “Get on the ground!” She did, and as she shoved her purse toward the men, she saw what she believed was a small handgun.
Her companion said the men were looking for cell phones, but he didn’t surrender his and he believes the gun was fake. The men did flee with the woman’s purse, which had her $70 digital camera and $170 cell phone, along with small change and identification.
In the second incident, a Whitesville Street woman said she was in her apartment with her date about 2 a.m. When her date walked out on the porch, he was accosted by two men, one of whom had a gun and tried to rob him.
Police interviewed the male victim, who said he didn’t know anything about the incident.
Two accused in truck theft
A McMinville, Tenn., couple were charged by LaGrange police with theft after an incident that began on Sivell Road in Troup County.
Police and sheriff’s deputies were following the suspects’ stolen Toyota 4-runner after witnesses pointed it out. The truck driven by Andrew Glenn, 23, crashed through a yard and damaged two fences and a building on Sivell Road when Glenn and his passenger, Candice Calvert, also 23, bailed out and left the truck in gear at 40 mph.
A stolen briefcase and notebook found at a dead-end in the road were identified by the truck’s owner as having been in his vehicle.
Glenn and Calvert were charged with theft. Glenn also was charged with criminal damage to property, reckless conduct and reckless driving.
Arrest
Lonzell Turman, 39, of Wright Street was charged with theft after a Baugh Street man identified him as taking a cell phone worth $40.
Police say man bites girlfriend
A man kept his girlfriend from leaving her residence and bit her after an argument in Tall Pines Apartments at 150 Turner St.
Police said the man had gone to the apartment to pick up clothes he had left there. The woman wanted him to leave, and he refused. An argument ensued, and he stood by the door to keep her from leaving.
As she tried to run out, the man grabbed her by the hair twice and dragged her back to her apartment, once down a set of stairs. The two began to struggle, and he bit her on her wrist and leg.
When he went to the kitchen, the woman ran out and called police. The man fled. Later, police arrived at the apartment to find the man and woman together. She told officers he was in the bedroom, and he was found hiding under the bed.
He was charged with false imprisonment and battery.
Damage
— Someone cut a hole in a chain-link fence of the Church of Jesus at 410 Jackson St., causing about $100 damage.
— The back door of a residence in the 600 block of South Greenwood Street was kicked in, causing less than $500 damage.
Thefts, burglaries
— A $4,000 air conditioner unit was taken from behind a building in the 700 block of Lincoln Street.
— A LaGrange woman said a thief entered her unlocked Acura sedan while it was at the Mike Daniel Recreation Center on Lafayette Parkway and took an HP Probook laptop and case worth $1,500.
— A 32-inch Toshiba flat-screen TV valued at $400 was stolen from the weight room of Sun Ridge Apartments at 1235 Hogansville Road.
— A man stole a portable DVD player valued at $179 from Walmart at 803 New Franklin Road by concealing it in his pants, then walked to the front of the store and paid for a bag of lemons and a package of Freezer Pops with food stamps.
— A man attempted to steal five fishing poles valued at $178 from Walmart by taking them out a back door and driving around to pick them up. He noticed employees watching him and abandoned the rods.
— Items of unknown value were stolen in a burglary at BJ’s Quiet Country Store at 29 Old Hutchinson Mill Road.
- It is the policy of LaGrange Daily News to print the names of people charged with felonies.
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