Police gave this account:
Passing motorists said they saw the man walking on Young’s Mill Road with a boy. Terice Lashell Thornton, 34, of Young’s Mill Road was on a cell phone when she aggressively drove onto a curb and into a yard and attempted to hit them.
The man told officers the two had been fighting over money, and he decided to leave to avoid the fight. He grabbed the boy, his son, and walked out when Thornton got in her car and drove toward him. He jumped on a neighbor’s porch to avoid her vehicle.
The woman said she accidentally drove on the curb because she was on the phone and that everyone around was lying about her.
Officers noticed discrepancies in her story, including that she drove the entire car onto a yard uphill over steep curbs, rather than just over the curb.
Thornton was charged with aggravated assault and cruelty to a child.
Armed man makes threats
A man cocked a gun and threatened to shoot up a house in the 200 block of Chatham Street.
Police said the man had left some items at the residence, and the owner said he could pick them up when she returned from work. A family member of the man arrived to pick up the items, and the woman refused to give them to him. The man pulled a gun, chambered a round and threatened to “shoot the place up.”
The woman shut the door in his face and called 911.
Warrants were placed on the man for making terroristic threats and acts.
Damage
n Vandals shattered three windows with rocks at a business in the 200 block of East Depot Street. Damage was estimated at $200.
n The front door of Liberty Worship Center at 120 Willis Circle was shattered, causing more than $500 damage.
Thefts, burglaries
n An air-conditioning unit was stolen from a vacant residence at 1645 Hightower Road. A witness saw two males commit the theft, but was unable to see their vehicle. Tire marks were found at the rear of the house.
n A central heating and air-conditioning unit was stolen from a vacant house at 667 Leonard Road.
n A Toshiba laptop, cash and two pairs of boxing gloves were stolen from Tone Fitness Academy at 805 Hill St. The items were valued at $1,085.
n A thief kicked in the front door of a house in the first block of Eleanor Street and stole $100 worth of tattooing equipment.
Guilty pleas
Sentenced after pleading guilty in Troup Superior Court were:
n Justin Kile Brown, 27, of Carrollton; five years in prison for escape and theft by taking. Brown stole a county dump truck while on a work detail at the Troup County landfill on July 24, 2007.
n Cedric Bernard Grigley, 33, of Donalsonville; five years in prison for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
n Bernard Glaze Jr., 24, of Valley, Ala.; four years in prison, four years’ probation and four years’ banishment from the Coweta Judicial Circuit for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, theft by receiving stolen property and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
n Christopher Terrell Dowell, 37, of LaGrange; two years at the county Correctional Institute and three years’ probation for tampering with evidence.
n Martez Lamon Cole, 21, of LaGrange; two years in prison and three years’ probation for selling cocaine.
n Willie James Douglas, 46, of LaGrange; two years in prison for possession of cocaine by an inmate at the county jail and simple battery against a detention officer.
n It is the policy of LaGrange Daily News to print the names of people charged with felonies.
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