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A University employee faces a felony charge after she was accused of destroying documents in the Division of Academic Enhancement.
According to University Police reports:
A department program coordinator told police that files went missing and were destroyed in Milledge Hall between Feb. 12 at 3:20 p.m. and Feb. 15 at 5 p.m. The documents belonged to the coordinator and were not in a filing cabinet where they were left. Police found some of the documents shredded and in a recycling bin in Milledge Hall.
Police arrested Tiffany Gordon, an administrative associate, on Friday afternoon and charged her with theft by taking and interference with government property. Gordon and the coordinator both work with the Upward Bound Program. She was released from Clarke County Jail on $5,000 bond.
Efforts to reach Gordon on Sunday afternoon were unsuccessful.
— Juanita, jcousins@randb.com
Seven University students thought they were being smart instead of drinking and driving last week. But their night still ended at the Clarke County Jail after they ditched their cabbie.
According to the University Police report:
A cabbie flagged down a University Police officer on Finley Street early Friday. The United Taxi Van driver told the officer that eight people left the vehicle with out paying fare. The driver pointed the people out to the officer who approached them, asking for their identification. While talking with the group, the officer noticed the smell of alcohol on their breathes and noted seven of them were underage.
The officer arrested University students Erin Ohara, Anthony Touart, Rachel Marie Babin, Jin Young Choi, Michelle Lynn Caruso, Tyler Harrison Hurd and Jean Pierre Dumenil and charged them with underage possession of alcohol. Ohara, Caruso and Babin also were charged with possession of a fake ID. The eighth student was not arrested because he was over 21.
Hurd paid the cab fare and the driver said he did not want to press charges.
— Juanita, jcousins@randb.com
A story The Red & Black wrote Feb. 15 titled “Man sodomized by homeless” brought tremendous response, with many seeking clarification on what exactly happened. A call to the Athens Clarke County Police Department didn’t yield any additional information, but attached is the police report from the incident.
Confusing? You bet.
Four University students were arrested and charged with underage possession when the driver was stopped for DUI early Thursday.
Andrew Tyler Heffernan was stopped for driving without headlights on Church Street. He was charged with DUI and then underage possession. When Officer Chavez of the University Police Department checked their names and birth dates, he charged Benjamin David Hatch, Robert William Clark, James Henry Wells and William Forrest Sylvester with underage possession.
All five were transported to the Clarke County Jail at 3:20 a.m.
The end is near for my role as crime reporter. I’ll be assistant news editor next semester, so I’ll be picking stories and pictures for the Wire (page 2) and will be doing the first read-throughs of news stories.
Any feedback from my crime stories/CrimeDawg/Crimewatch this semester?
When I was at the Athens-Clarke County Police Department today, I saw Sonic takeout bags in the lobby trash can. Someone couldn’t wait to throw their fast food out?
Nice. Atleast it’s not like last semester when crime reporter Jessica Levine saw condoms in the lobby trash can. Creepy. Don’t remember? Be sure to check out her blog from spring semester.
Luther Morrison, 19, was arrested and charged with intent to distribute drugs on school property at 7:40 p.m. on Dec. 1 during a Cedar Shoals High School basketball game. He was attempting to sell ecstasy to the high school kiddies.
Morrison isn’t a UGA student, but I thought it was definitely an interesting crime aspect in Athens.
Any thoughts?
Mary Katherine Oyler was arrested and charged with simple battery on a peace officer (think police), obstruction of a peace officer and underage possession of alcohol when EMS reported to Boggs Hall to give her medical attention at 3:15 a.m. on Nov. 17.
Officer Zinsmeister arrived on the report of a sick person and found Oyler unconscious. While Saint Mary’s EMS were attempting to examine her, she kicked them multiple times, according to the police report. As the officer attempted to place her in handcuffs, she kicked him several times in the leg and attempted to punch him.
Then he arrested her.
As a good friend of mine would put it, Good Lord. How drunk/sick would you have to be to not think about kicking EMS workers and then a police officer?
Sounds like fun.
I’m sure you’ve all heard, but just to update … Atlanta businessman Stephen Eugene Talley was arrested Nov. 16 and charged with selling alcoholic beverages without a license and selling alcoholic beverages within 200 yards of a college campus the weekend before. At 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 10 Talley was approached by an officer who saw him sell alcohol on the North Quad. Apparently, he also transported people from Atlanta to the games. (So they could pre-game and not drive?)
Bizarre. So sometime between 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 8 nad 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 9 a person stole a $4,000 trailer holding 78 desks. The trailer was at the Auxiliary Services Warehouse. The desks are altogether worth $11,700! What will someone do with those desks??
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