Woman arrested after hosting underage drinking party
A Danielsville woman was arrested recently after she allegedly held an underage drinking party at her home.
Angela Deridee Hughes, 50, 157 AC Carey Road, was charged with furnishing, purchasing, and possession of an alcoholic beverage by persons below legal age.
According to the incident report, officer Jason Luke was dispatched to Paradise Valley Road to meet with a man who said he could hear kids yelling in the woods behind his home and that this was the “third Friday night in a row” that he had heard this.
Officers went to the residence on AC Carey Road where they saw several juveniles outside the home who ran into the woods when they saw the deputies. Hughes, who was intoxicated, was asked if there was anyone under 21 drinking at her home, and she allegedly said that no one was drinking there. Several girls and boys were inside the residence and one was so drunk she couldn’t stand and was vomiting into a trashcan, according to the report.
Hughes was detained in the back of a patrol car and over the following four hours, Luke reported that a number of juveniles began showing up at the residence from the surrounding woods. Nearly all were intoxicated. Their parents were contacted, with many expressing concern and anger when they found out about the drinking.
Several said they had been told that their child was there with Hughes and her daughter and that they were going to “watch movies and eat popcorn.” Other parents stated that Hughes had sent a picture of their child with Hughes’ daughter and herself, saying they were the only ones there and “having a good time.”
In another incident, a Danielsville man was charged with family violence last week after he allegedly beat up a woman.
Hubert Lee McElreath, 58, 1685 Young Harris Road, was charged with two counts of simple battery FVA after the son of a woman he lives with called 9-1-1 to report that McElreath was beating his mother.
According to the incident report, officer Alan Stratton arrived on scene where he was met at the front door by the victim, who told him she had been hit by McElreath “throughout the night” and that she needed help leaving the residence. She then allegedly walked to the master bedroom where McElreath was lying in bed and made statements such as “I’m leaving you once and for all, I’m tired of you beating on me.” McElreath then got of bed and asked why she had called the sheriff’s office and that he had not touched her in any way. He said she had threatened to kill him with a knife after they argued over a car she sold that he had paid $900 for. She admitted to threatening him with the knife because she feared for her life. Her son arrived as she was packing her clothing and said he called 9-1-1 for his mother after he received a text from her stating “I’m hurt and he’s going crazy, come with the law.”
Stratton observed cigarette burns and multiple bruises on her legs and thighs and other areas, along with knots on her head where she said he had hit her with a spoon. She had several bruises on the back of her legs where she said she attempted to crawl away after she was knocked to the floor and was dragged back across the floor. As Stratton was speaking with the victim, McElreath fell on the front porch and went into what appeared to be a seizure. EMS was called to the scene. About a minute later, McElreath was allegedly standing up smoking a cigarette. While EMS was there, McElreath again fell to the ground with an alleged seizure. EMS determined he was not having a seizure and he refused transport to the hospital. He was instead handcuffed and taken to jail. The victim said that McElreath “acts like he is seizing a lot.”
In a similar incident, another Danielsville man was arrested after he allegedly hit his wife and dragged her around by her hair.
William Allen Russum, 51, 2812 Old Wildcat Bridge Road, was charged with one count of battery. Officer Jeffrey Vaughn noted that the woman had red marks on her face that appeared to be finger marks from an open hand. Vaughn also noted that the victim was extremely upset and crying.
Other incidents on file at the sheriff’s office included:
•Safety checkpoints were set up at Watson Mill Road park entrance at Paoli Road at Elm Road. More than 100 vehicles passed through the check points, resulting in one arrest.
•A missing person was reported on AC Carey Road. The man was described as a white male, five feet five inches tall, 145 pounds, gray goatee, last seen wearing camouflage boots, blue jeans and a white T-shirt. He was driving a red Dodge Dakota pick up. His ex-wife, who filed the report, said he is suffering from heart disease, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.
•A woman on Timberlane Drive reported that someone stole an a/c unit from behind her deceased mother’s residence.
•A woman on Fleming Street reported that two people she knows had been calling her since 2 a.m. that morning and leaving her voicemails. In one of the voicemails, a woman threatened to “whoop her @#$.”
•A man on George Washington Avenue reported that two people staying at his residence while he was out of town working had sold his generator and a riding mower in order to purchase drugs.
•An a/c unit was stolen from a home on Virginia Lane.
•A woman reported that her daughter’s cell phone was allegedly stolen from her jacket, which she left in the lobby of the gym while she went to the restroom.
•A man reported that his utility trailer was stolen from the parking lot of Wesley Chapel Church where he left it with a flat tire. The missing trailer was reportedly painted fire engine red and is a single axle.
•A woman on Fernwood Court reported that someone stole her prescription bottle of Xanax from her vehicle.
•Theft by taking was reported at the Dollar General on Glenn Carrie Road after officer Joshua Smith met with a couple in the Ingles parking lot who were worried their mother was missing. The woman said she had gotten a call from a man who said he found a black purse and cell phone on the side of the road near Danielsville Road and they had gone to meet the man to retrieve the purse but did not know where their mother was. While talking with the officer, the woman’s sister told her their mother was back at home. Smith followed them to the mother’s home to check on her and she told them about someone taking her purse from her shopping cart while she was loading her car. She said she reported this to the store management and then went to her bank to close her accounts. She looked through her purse and found only her checkbook missing.
•There was a two-vehicle accident on Hwy. 29 South at Azalea Lane on Monday, May 7. No one was transported and both vehicles were driveable, according to the report.
•A Carlton man was reportedly bitten on his thumb by a Copperhead snake last week. According to the 9-1-1 report, the man, who lives on Railroad Street, called 9-1-1 to report the bite. He said he wanted to speak with someone in the emergency department and was given the number to Athens Regional’s emergency room. He called back later to say her had spoken with someone in the emergency room and would monitor the swelling from the bite. He stated that he would not be alone and would have friends with him.
•A fight on Double Branches Road reportedly led to one person being taken to the hospital complaining of numbness to her upper body from a fall during the altercation. Another person with lacerations on their arm refused to be transported. According to the 9-1-1 report, the caller reported that there were “a bunch of drunk people, everybody is fighting, they have been (physically) fighting for over an hour.”
•One person was transported to the hospital following a single vehicle wreck on Paoli Road at Osley Mill Road last week. A woman driving a 1996 Chevy Cavalier was reportedly transported after she was found bleeding from the head.
•Battery was reported on Grady Drive last week after a woman there reported that her boyfriend tried to choke her and tie her up with duct tape after she refused to go to the grocery store after work. According to the incident report, officer Wesley Bryant went to the scene where he met with the woman and a friend. The woman said she came home from work and the perpetrator asked her if she wanted to go to the grocery store. She told him she was tired and didn’t want to go. She said he then started yelling and cursing at her. She told him she and the children needed some time alone and that perhaps he should go stay with his sister for few days. This angered him even more and he allegedly put his arm around her and tried to choke her. He then grabbed her by the hands and began to try to duct tape them together. She started pinching his arm, she said, and telling him that she loved him. Her friend knocked on the door about this time and the man went to the door, telling the friend the victim was not at home. The victim then got away, running out the door to tell her friend to call 9-1-1. The man had left the scene by the time Bryant arrived.
•A woman walking the track at Hull Sanford Elementary reported that someone stole a brown “clutch” purse from her car containing her identification cards, credit cards and a Blackberry cell phone. She said she saw a Honda Civic stop between her car and another vehicle that was parked beside hers. She said a man got out of the vehicle, stretched and then left shortly after without coming to the track to walk.
•Someone attempted to steal a heat pump at David’s Home Church Road last week. The pump had an alarm on it that was activated after a copper tube was cut and the lid removed.
•Approximately 75 feet of copper pipe was stolen from under Liberty Church on Hwy. 106 North.
•A man at a Hwy. 72 business said a man he fired reportedly told three of his other employees that he better “watch his back, he was going to kick his @$%.” He said the man then left the property and began calling him asking for his job back and even came to his home. He was advised of the TPO and warrant process.
•Family violence was reported on Black’s Creek Church Road last week after officer Jeffrey Strickland met with a couple who had been arguing about bills. She stated she was on the computer and they began arguing and he struck her in the nose and head. Strickland said she did not have any visible signs of injury. The man said she was on the computer communicating with another man and he got angry about that. He said she called him “retarded” and then hit him in the nose. He had no marks either, according to the report.
•A woman on Hwy. 106 South reported that her ex-boyfriend will not leave her alone. She said he repeatedly calls her, follows her around and comes to her house. She said she has asked him to stop and that he was arrested before for hitting her. They do have a child together.
According to the incident report, officer Jason Luke was dispatched to Paradise Valley Road to meet with a man who said he could hear kids yelling in the woods behind his home and that this was the “third Friday night in a row” that he had heard this.
Officers went to the residence on AC Carey Road where they saw several juveniles outside the home who ran into the woods when they saw the deputies. Hughes, who was intoxicated, was asked if there was anyone under 21 drinking at her home, and she allegedly said that no one was drinking there. Several girls and boys were inside the residence and one was so drunk she couldn’t stand and was vomiting into a trashcan, according to the report.
Hughes was detained in the back of a patrol car and over the following four hours, Luke reported that a number of juveniles began showing up at the residence from the surrounding woods. Nearly all were intoxicated. Their parents were contacted, with many expressing concern and anger when they found out about the drinking.
Several said they had been told that their child was there with Hughes and her daughter and that they were going to “watch movies and eat popcorn.” Other parents stated that Hughes had sent a picture of their child with Hughes’ daughter and herself, saying they were the only ones there and “having a good time.”
In another incident, a Danielsville man was charged with family violence last week after he allegedly beat up a woman.
Hubert Lee McElreath, 58, 1685 Young Harris Road, was charged with two counts of simple battery FVA after the son of a woman he lives with called 9-1-1 to report that McElreath was beating his mother.
According to the incident report, officer Alan Stratton arrived on scene where he was met at the front door by the victim, who told him she had been hit by McElreath “throughout the night” and that she needed help leaving the residence. She then allegedly walked to the master bedroom where McElreath was lying in bed and made statements such as “I’m leaving you once and for all, I’m tired of you beating on me.” McElreath then got of bed and asked why she had called the sheriff’s office and that he had not touched her in any way. He said she had threatened to kill him with a knife after they argued over a car she sold that he had paid $900 for. She admitted to threatening him with the knife because she feared for her life. Her son arrived as she was packing her clothing and said he called 9-1-1 for his mother after he received a text from her stating “I’m hurt and he’s going crazy, come with the law.”
Stratton observed cigarette burns and multiple bruises on her legs and thighs and other areas, along with knots on her head where she said he had hit her with a spoon. She had several bruises on the back of her legs where she said she attempted to crawl away after she was knocked to the floor and was dragged back across the floor. As Stratton was speaking with the victim, McElreath fell on the front porch and went into what appeared to be a seizure. EMS was called to the scene. About a minute later, McElreath was allegedly standing up smoking a cigarette. While EMS was there, McElreath again fell to the ground with an alleged seizure. EMS determined he was not having a seizure and he refused transport to the hospital. He was instead handcuffed and taken to jail. The victim said that McElreath “acts like he is seizing a lot.”
In a similar incident, another Danielsville man was arrested after he allegedly hit his wife and dragged her around by her hair.
William Allen Russum, 51, 2812 Old Wildcat Bridge Road, was charged with one count of battery. Officer Jeffrey Vaughn noted that the woman had red marks on her face that appeared to be finger marks from an open hand. Vaughn also noted that the victim was extremely upset and crying.
Other incidents on file at the sheriff’s office included:
•Safety checkpoints were set up at Watson Mill Road park entrance at Paoli Road at Elm Road. More than 100 vehicles passed through the check points, resulting in one arrest.
•A missing person was reported on AC Carey Road. The man was described as a white male, five feet five inches tall, 145 pounds, gray goatee, last seen wearing camouflage boots, blue jeans and a white T-shirt. He was driving a red Dodge Dakota pick up. His ex-wife, who filed the report, said he is suffering from heart disease, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.
•A woman on Timberlane Drive reported that someone stole an a/c unit from behind her deceased mother’s residence.
•A woman on Fleming Street reported that two people she knows had been calling her since 2 a.m. that morning and leaving her voicemails. In one of the voicemails, a woman threatened to “whoop her @#$.”
•A man on George Washington Avenue reported that two people staying at his residence while he was out of town working had sold his generator and a riding mower in order to purchase drugs.
•An a/c unit was stolen from a home on Virginia Lane.
•A woman reported that her daughter’s cell phone was allegedly stolen from her jacket, which she left in the lobby of the gym while she went to the restroom.
•A man reported that his utility trailer was stolen from the parking lot of Wesley Chapel Church where he left it with a flat tire. The missing trailer was reportedly painted fire engine red and is a single axle.
•A woman on Fernwood Court reported that someone stole her prescription bottle of Xanax from her vehicle.
•Theft by taking was reported at the Dollar General on Glenn Carrie Road after officer Joshua Smith met with a couple in the Ingles parking lot who were worried their mother was missing. The woman said she had gotten a call from a man who said he found a black purse and cell phone on the side of the road near Danielsville Road and they had gone to meet the man to retrieve the purse but did not know where their mother was. While talking with the officer, the woman’s sister told her their mother was back at home. Smith followed them to the mother’s home to check on her and she told them about someone taking her purse from her shopping cart while she was loading her car. She said she reported this to the store management and then went to her bank to close her accounts. She looked through her purse and found only her checkbook missing.
•There was a two-vehicle accident on Hwy. 29 South at Azalea Lane on Monday, May 7. No one was transported and both vehicles were driveable, according to the report.
•A Carlton man was reportedly bitten on his thumb by a Copperhead snake last week. According to the 9-1-1 report, the man, who lives on Railroad Street, called 9-1-1 to report the bite. He said he wanted to speak with someone in the emergency department and was given the number to Athens Regional’s emergency room. He called back later to say her had spoken with someone in the emergency room and would monitor the swelling from the bite. He stated that he would not be alone and would have friends with him.
•A fight on Double Branches Road reportedly led to one person being taken to the hospital complaining of numbness to her upper body from a fall during the altercation. Another person with lacerations on their arm refused to be transported. According to the 9-1-1 report, the caller reported that there were “a bunch of drunk people, everybody is fighting, they have been (physically) fighting for over an hour.”
•One person was transported to the hospital following a single vehicle wreck on Paoli Road at Osley Mill Road last week. A woman driving a 1996 Chevy Cavalier was reportedly transported after she was found bleeding from the head.
•Battery was reported on Grady Drive last week after a woman there reported that her boyfriend tried to choke her and tie her up with duct tape after she refused to go to the grocery store after work. According to the incident report, officer Wesley Bryant went to the scene where he met with the woman and a friend. The woman said she came home from work and the perpetrator asked her if she wanted to go to the grocery store. She told him she was tired and didn’t want to go. She said he then started yelling and cursing at her. She told him she and the children needed some time alone and that perhaps he should go stay with his sister for few days. This angered him even more and he allegedly put his arm around her and tried to choke her. He then grabbed her by the hands and began to try to duct tape them together. She started pinching his arm, she said, and telling him that she loved him. Her friend knocked on the door about this time and the man went to the door, telling the friend the victim was not at home. The victim then got away, running out the door to tell her friend to call 9-1-1. The man had left the scene by the time Bryant arrived.
•A woman walking the track at Hull Sanford Elementary reported that someone stole a brown “clutch” purse from her car containing her identification cards, credit cards and a Blackberry cell phone. She said she saw a Honda Civic stop between her car and another vehicle that was parked beside hers. She said a man got out of the vehicle, stretched and then left shortly after without coming to the track to walk.
•Someone attempted to steal a heat pump at David’s Home Church Road last week. The pump had an alarm on it that was activated after a copper tube was cut and the lid removed.
•Approximately 75 feet of copper pipe was stolen from under Liberty Church on Hwy. 106 North.
•A man at a Hwy. 72 business said a man he fired reportedly told three of his other employees that he better “watch his back, he was going to kick his @$%.” He said the man then left the property and began calling him asking for his job back and even came to his home. He was advised of the TPO and warrant process.
•Family violence was reported on Black’s Creek Church Road last week after officer Jeffrey Strickland met with a couple who had been arguing about bills. She stated she was on the computer and they began arguing and he struck her in the nose and head. Strickland said she did not have any visible signs of injury. The man said she was on the computer communicating with another man and he got angry about that. He said she called him “retarded” and then hit him in the nose. He had no marks either, according to the report.
•A woman on Hwy. 106 South reported that her ex-boyfriend will not leave her alone. She said he repeatedly calls her, follows her around and comes to her house. She said she has asked him to stop and that he was arrested before for hitting her. They do have a child together.
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05/25/12 at 09:40 PM
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I am just pleasantly surprised that the local police finally busted one of these women for something that has been commonly done in this county for a very long time. My son was a grown man before he told me about more than one of these drinking- drug parties hosted in county by mothers. Until moving to Madison county I had never heard of it being done so frequently . Not long ago a child died due to drowning after one like this. These so called parents should face hard time. But that would be too much to expect!