Crime Digest, Friday, July 7, 2017 - The Union-Recorder

The following is information compiled from public records taken from reports of the Milledgeville Police Department and the Baldwin County Sheriff's Office. It is our policy to not disclose the names of victims. These reports do not reflect guilt or innocence. An “arrest” does not always indicate incarceration. The charges filed are noted in the narrative.

Milledgeville Police Department

Theft by Taking

An officer met with a man at his Doles Boulevard residence shortly after 11:30 p.m. July 1 in reference to a theft. The man said that several weeks before, he had allowed an acquaintance in need of a place to live to move into his house, and believed the acquaintance had stolen some of his items and money. He said he had given the man his debit card on two separate occasions to buy cigarettes and tobacco, but had recently discovered two unauthorized withdrawals on the account on the same dates he had lent the man his card. He also said two pill bottles, with one containing hydrocodone, had gone missing from his bedroom. He said the man had recently moved out but he wished to file a report for future reference.

Obstruction of Law Enforcement

Four officers were dispatched to an Anthony Way apartment shortly before 1 p.m. July 1 in reference to a tip of a wanted person. There the officers met with a tenant who said she did not know of any wanted people in her home, but allowed the officers to search her residence. Upon climbing a staircase into the attic, two officers found the fugitive and ordered him to raise his hands. Before the officers had a chance to arrest him however, the man fell through a weak section of the floor and escaped out the front door of the residence. The officers obtained a written statement from the tenant confessing to knowingly harboring a wanted person and arrested her for misdemeanor obstruction of justice. They also took out warrants for criminal trespass and obstruction of justice for the wanted man.

-Compiled by Will Woolever

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