By DAVID MELSON - dmelson@t-g.com
A woman angry at her husband was arrested Monday after allegedly intentionally ramming the front of his vehicle — with him and one of their children inside.
The husband had signed an order of protection against Felandria Janquelle Garrett after a “verbal domestic argument” at their South Thompson Street home, Shelbyville police said.
Garrett, 25, whose address is listed as Gallatin, allegedly drove past the home after her husband filed the order. then pulled into the driveway and struck his car, where he was seated with one leg inside and one outside. Their youngest child was also inside the car, he said.
Garrett was later arrested in the car rider line at a Shelbyville school. She was charged with aggravated domestic assault, reckless endangerment, violating the order of protection, simple possession of a schedule 6 drug, possession of drug paraphernalia, no proof of insurance and driving on a suspended license, and held pending $30,000 bond.
Drug charges
•Officers checking a report of a “suspicious vehicle” around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday arrested three of its four occupants after none admitted ownership of drugs found inside, a report said.
The truck had been seen driving slowly in the Woodbury Street area. and was stopped moments later on North Main Street.
A passenger, Robert Allen Bowen Jr., 42, of Possum Trot Road, told police they had been looking at a duplex he was considering moving into. Officer Letisia Diaz said she found 30 1/2 unprescribed prescription pills on passenger Audrianna Alicia Marshall, 30, of Warners Bridge Road, who had allegedly given a false name. That led to a search of the vehicle, where small bags of marijuana and methamphetamine were found in the passenger side floor.
Marshall, Bowen and passenger Theotis S, Malone of North Main Street were all charged with possession of schedule 2 and 4 drugs after refusing to claim possession of the drugs.
Additional charges of criminal impersonation, possession of legend drugs were filed against Marshall, along with previous warrants for DUI, driving on a suspended license, violation of an order of protection, domestic assault, resisting stop/arrest and failure to appear. She was held on $28,000 bond.
No other charges were filed against Bowen and Malone, who were each held on $2,500 bond.
The driver, Milissa Evon Jackson, 56, of Fayetteville, was charged with driving without a license and possession of drug paraphernalia due to four glass pipes found in her purse. She was held on $2,000 bond.
•Cocaine was found early Wednesday in the wallet of a DUI suspect after a crash on Hawkins Drive, police said.
Santiago Tista Camajo was passed out in the driver’s seat of his vehicle when Officer Samuel Campbell discovered Camajo’s vehicle in a ditch, a police report said. Camajo failed field sobriety tests and does not have a driver’s license, Campbell’s report said.
Camajo was charged with possession of a schedule 2 drug, DUI and driving without a license, He was held on $8,500 bond.
•Taylor Ledbetter of Shelbyville was arrested Monday at a North Main Street motel after 3 grams of marijuana and a half-smoked marijuana cigar were found in her possession by police. She was cited for simple possession.
Money demanded
A man demanding money threatened a customer at Dollar General Market, North Main Street, around 8 p.m. Thursday, police said.
The suspect allegedly began following the customer around the store saying he had no money to buy food. When the customer said he couldn’t help, the suspect allegedly became angry and threatened to attack him.
As the customer left the store, the man was waiting outside and reached a hand into his waistband as if he had a gun. The suspect was gone when police arrived.
‘Squatter’ arrested
A so-called “squatter” in a Neeley Avenue apartment was charged with possession of marijuana Monday.
Roy Joseph Belcher Jr., 42, of Watertown had a pipe in his clothing containing marijuana, police said.
The report describes Belcher as a “person of interest” in several recent thefts within the complex. A co-owner of the apartment complex told police Belcher had “destroyed” a recently-remodeled unit.
Belcher was charged with simple possession and held on $500 bond.
Too trusting
An armoire containing an estimated $4,000 worth of jewelry was left in the front yard of a Hickory Drive home because the items’ owner, who lives in a shed behind the house, had no one to help move them inside and didn’t think they’d be stolen.
The armoire and jewelry were stolen between midnight-3 a.m. Monday, the owner told police.
Around $200 of the jewelry was recovered — after a payment of $200 by the owner’s son, who had been contacted by two people saying he needed to pick up the items at Shelbyville Inn, North Cannon Boulevard.
Police found the armoire at the motel, in the room of a man and women who said they’d bought the armoire on Facebook Marketplace in March 2021 but couldn’t prove their claim. No charges were filed, but the armoire was seized and taken to police headquarters.
Thefts
A man has been charged with swapping bar codes on merchandise at Walmart and purchasing them at an illegally-reduced price.
Richard Wayne Newkirk, 65, of East Lane Street, allegedly told police he was unaware of committing any crimes.
Walmart security personnel told police they had evidence of four similar incidents committed by Newkirk and possibly three or more cases still under review.
Newkirk was charged with shoplifting, trespassing, and theft of property. He was held on $6,250 bond.
•A new Stihl leaf blower was taken between Saturday and Wednesday from a locked garage at a Gaither Road home. A suspect was named,
•A large box of Snap-On and Craftsman tools was stolen from a barn in the 900 block of Goose Creek Road, the BCSO was notified Wednesday,
•A utility trailer was stolen from a Bunker Hill Road home between Aug. 5 and Monday, a BCSO report said.
The 18-foot trailer had been chained to the home’s deck with a wheel lock and a lock in the hitch.
•A Ruger Mark II firearm was taken from an outbuilding on Rattlesnake Lodge Road, the BCSO was told Tuesday.
The owner said he last saw the gun eight years ago.
