Man charged with simple battery

Daniel Garcia, 32, no address listed, was charged with one count of simple battery FVA.

According to the report, officer Gary Floyd went to a home on Pine Valley Farm Road where he met Garcia, who told him he wanted to “be locked up.” He said his wife started yelling at him after they had been arguing all day so he slapped her in the face and called 9-1-1. His wife said she didn’t want him locked up for hitting her, but that he did slap her in the face. Garcia kept walking toward the patrol car and shouting he wanted to go to jail, so he was placed into custody.

In another incident, no one was arrested after an extensive investigation concerning a 24-year old black male who claimed he had been shot at while kayaking on the Broad River with friends last weekend.

According to the incident report, officer Jeffrey Vaughn responded to Parham Town Road Sunday, where he spoke with the pastor of a local church, who called dispatch about a man standing in the middle of Parham Town Road. The pastor said he was in the area to check on one of his church members when he saw the man flag down another female church member who was traveling on the road. The pastor said he pulled over to make sure she was OK. The man in the road had asked to use her phone and was behaving strangely, saying he had been shot at but had not been hit.

Officer Vaughn talked to the man, who he noted appeared to be on “some type of drugs.” He was bleeding and behaving erratically, waving his hands and trying to walk away from the officer, who placed him in the back of his patrol car to get him out of the road. The man told Vaughn that he had been shot at and was in a fight. He said he and friends were kayaking on the Broad and he heard shots and “saw a large amount of blood” so he jumped out and made his way to shore. He then went to a white house where he met a man in his yard and asked to use the phone. Afterwards, he said he and the man got into a fight. EMS arrived to examine the man, who told them he only wanted to use a phone to “call his guardian.” He also told them he had been eating wild mushrooms. His injuries were determined to be superficial, but EMS offered to take him to the hospital to be evaluated, but he only wanted to know if the hospital had a phone. Elbert County sheriff’s officials and a DNR officer were also called to the scene to investigate the “shots fired.” Officers eventually found his friends at The Sandbar, a local restaurant, where they told him that the man had “wigged out” while they were kayaking. They said shots were fired, but that the shooter was target practicing and it was not threatening. They said that’s when their friend “jumped in the water and took off like a mad man.”

The DNR officer located the person who the man said he was in a fight with. This man told the officer that he had let the man use his phone, but that when the man hung up, he tried to kiss him. He said he had to shove and fight him to get away from him. All these incidents were determined to have taken place in Elbert County. He was released after Elbert County said they did not have a reason to hold him.

Other incidents on file at the sheriff’s office included:

•Battery was reported on Hwy. 29 South last week. Officer Andrew Wilkes stated that a woman she knows grabbed her by the arms and was jerking them during an argument the day before.

•Harassing phone calls were reported on John Sharp Road when a man there said his 17-year old son was receiving threats by text message on his girlfriend’s cell phone. According to the report, one of the messages threatened to “whoop (the boyfriend’s) fat $%%.”

•A man on Kingston Road reported that he received a fraudulent check in the mail after an unknown person contacted him by email in reference to purchasing a timeshare. The victim said prior to receiving a $2,450 check in the mail, he was told by one of the emails to deduct the total cost of the timeshare stay and send the remainder of the funds to the offender’s travel agent by Western Union or by Moneygram. When he received the check, he called the Wyoming bank it was written on and found out that it was a fraudulent check. The check and copies of emails were taken for evidence.

•A man on Booger Hill Road reported that he saw someone taking mail from mailboxes on his road, including mail from his own box. He said he could not get a tag number or a good description of the vehicle. Mail from Booger Hill Road was later found at a dumpster at the Marketplace in Danielsville and was returned to the rightful owners.

•A woman on Thousand Oaks Drive reported that she found a man sitting on her back deck and that he jumped off the porch and ran across a field when she came to the door with her gun. He was described as a brown-skinned male with brown eyes, black pants and a gray shirt and ball cap.

•A woman on Friendship Church Road reported that her daughter took a lock box containing cash and a check from an insurance company that she received when her husband died. She could not remember when her husband had died, or when she received the check. While trying to speak with her, the officer noted that she kept holding a cell phone to her ear and saying “I will not go back to the hospital.”

•A woman on Sawdust Road reported that an ex-boyfriend stole a 1967 VW Beetle left to her by her deceased father and sold it for scrap metal.

•Criminal trespass was reported on New Hope Church Road last week after a man there reported that a woman who had been escorted off the property had been seen back on the property and that it appeared she had cut the lock off an outbuilding and placed her things back inside it.

•An intoxicated woman became stranded on a sandbar in the Broad River last week after she allegedly lost a paddle to her boat. Someone who lives along the river heard her calling for help and called E-911. Deputy Justin Hanley came to the scene where he spotted her on the sandbar with several dogs. She began crying and the officer found it hard to communicate with her because she would not stop talking. The woman made her way off the sandbar and into the river and officers directed her to get out of the river. The heavily intoxicated woman was taken back to her Hickory Nut Lane home and released to her husband’s care.

•Simple battery was reported on May Drive last week after a man reported that his ex-girlfriend struck him in the face during an argument at her mother’s house.

•A man was warned not to be burning trash at his house after an officer and Poca VFD responded to a report of black smoke behind a residence on Hudson Rivers Church Road.

•A man on Madison Street reported that his ex-wife had damaged their home as she was moving her stuff out.

•A woman flagged down deputy Justin Hanley at the red light in Colbert to tell him that she has been running on East Fifth Avenue when she found two debit cards laying in the roadway. One was a Georgia EBT card and one a direct express card, both made out to the same name.

•A man on Race Track Road reported that someone stole a metal swing from his front yard.

•Georgia State Patrol and the sheriff’s office attempted to catch a juvenile riding his dirt bike on Glenn Carrie Road last week. The juvenile eluded them and left the dirt bike, fleeing on foot.

•A woman on Mountain View Lane reported that she suspects that her juvenile daughter has been carrying on a relationship with a man staying at their residence. She said she had found them lying, fully clothed, under a blanket watching a movie. She also said she had intercepted messages between the two on Facebook stating “I love you” back and forth. The juvenile said the two had never had sex, but that they had been “holding hands and talking about it.” The male was not a the residence at the time of the report.

•Someone reportedly damaged the gravel parking lot on Providence Church Road last week by making doughnuts.

•A woman on Sawdust Road stated that someone stole a diamond wedding ring that she had given her daughter as a gift. She said when they left to go to the beach, the ring was in the jewelry box with other jewelry. She suspects that her ex-husband, who moved out while they were gone, took the ring. She said he had been living in a room at the house as a tenant.

•An accident was reported June 11 at Hwy. 29 and Clark Circle in Hull. A 20-year-old female reportedly suffered a head and leg injury after hitting a power pole in her vehicle.

•No injuries were reported June 11 when a Pepsi truck ran off the road on Hwy. 29 near Zeb’s Barbecue.

•Accidents were reported June 11 at Hwy. 29 and Piedmont Road, June 12 at Hwy. 29 and Old Royston Road and June 12 at Hwy. 106 at Rogers Mill Road.

•A 19-year-old man reportedly hit a deer around 9 p.m., June 13, while riding on a motorcycle at Nowhere Road and Dillard Road. He reportedly injured his left arm and suffered possible broken leg.

•A two-vehicle accident was reported at approximately 3:30 p.m., June 15, at Paoli Junction on Hwy. 98 in Comer.

•EMS employees responded to a Colbert home June 17 after a 13-month-old baby girl reportedly fell off a bed.

•A 4-year-old boy reportedly stepped on hot coals at a Hudson Rivers Church Road locale and burned his foot Monday.

•A man on Virginia Lane reported that his fence was damaged by someone who apparently took a grinder to the top hangers that hold the wire onto the fence together. He said he noticed what had had been done after he walked by his fence and almost cut his hand.