3 face marijuana charges

Staff Reports

June 24, 2009 11:03 pm

— MOULTRIE — Three people were apprehended after they were allegedly found with suspected marijuana Tuesday afternoon.
Amber Lyn Wilson, 18, Sherri Lyn Flinchum, 39, both of 571 W. Mulberry St. in Funston, and Johnny Ray Walker, 21, of 1231 Bob Taylor Road, were each charged with possession of marijuana less than one ounce.
A Moultrie police officer spotted a Ford Escort parked at a house in a known drug area of Seventh Avenue Southeast at 1:01 p.m. Tuesday. The car drove off after a white male left the house and got into it, and the officer followed it to the First Avenue Southeast and Fifth Street Southeast intersection, police reports stated.
While waiting for a traffic light at the intersection, the Escort cut off, and the officer turned on his car’s blue lights for driver safety. Once the car was restarted, it pulled into the Chevron station at the intersection followed by the officer. As the car pulled in, a passenger, later identified as Walker, was allegedly making movements as if to hide something.
The officer spoke with the driver, identified as Wilson, to see if everything was okay with them and the Escort. When he looked in the car, he allegedly saw suspected marijuana all over Walker’s pants, and he was asked to step out of the car. When he got out, there allegedly was suspected marijuana falling off his clothes.
The officer asked Wilson and another passenger, identified as Flinchum, to also step out of the Escort and asked for permission to search it. Wilson was allegedly acting nervous but gave the officer permission to search the car, and he found a plastic baggy with suspected marijuana allegedly stuffed between the passenger seat and a floor board. Suspected marijuana residue was also found all over the car’s interior.
Walker, Flinchum and Wilson were then placed under arrest.

Arrests:
Moultrie Police
• Bruce Jamal Joseph Davis, 46, of 1200 Fifth St. S.W., was charged Tuesday with public drunkenness (second offense) and disorderly conduct.
• Michael Tyrone Williams, 34, of 804 Joe Lewis Ave., was charged Monday with simple battery, criminal trespassing and theft by conversion.

Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office
• Jimmy Darrell Smith, 41, of 105 Culbreth Road, was charged Sunday with being a fugitive from justice.

Georgia State Patrol
• Moises Mestiza, 21, of Berlin, was charged Tuesday with driving without a license and speeding.
• Wayne Oline Weeks, 27, of 1250 Old Norman Park Road in Norman Park, was charged Tuesday with DUI, driving without a license and improper stopping on a roadway.

Other Incidents:
Moultrie Police
• Arthur Fuller, of Fourth Street Southeast, reported a thief stole a Bass Pro Shop net, eight Shimano rods and reels and a Flambow tacklebox from his boat Tuesday. The value of the stolen items was about $1,514.
• Troy O’Hearn reported someone kicked in a back door and threw eggs on the walls of his rental property on Fourth Avenue Southwest Tuesday. Damage to the door was estimated at $150. O’Hearn gave officers the name of a suspect.
• An employee at Kangaroo Express on First Avenue Southeast reported a thief pumped $11.08 in gasoline above a prepaid amount and left without paying for it Tuesday. The vehicle used was a white Cadillac Escalade, driven by a white female, but officers were not given its tag number.

Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office
• Wayne Baggett, of Doc Darbyshire Road, reported someone broke out the rear window of his Ford Ranger truck between 11 p.m. Monday and 7:15 a.m. Tuesday.