A 911 call came in from Hyundai of Milledgeville on Monday afternoon in reference to a shattered vehicle window and an assault.
Eventually arrested and charged with aggravated assault and other charges was Monteigaus McCormick.
McCormick is accused of punching out the window of a new car, pointing a gun at a salesman, threatening to kill him, and then proceeding to punch the salesman in the face multiple times.
McCormick remained on the scene, his knuckles bloodied. An officer said McCormick told him the victim “touched his girlfriend...during a test drive” several days earlier and that he “is supposed to protect his girlfriend and his kid.” McCormick “accused (the salesman) of touching (his girlfriend’s) private area,” which the victim later denied.
The victim relayed to officers that he was sitting in the dealership vehicle when McCormick approached, punched out the window, pointed a handgun at him and said “you know I can kill you, right.”
The gun was recovered later from under a tire on McCormick’s vehicle.
He was charged with aggravated assault, second degree criminal damage to property, tampering with evidence, and battery.
In other Milledgeville Police Departmentnews:
• Felontae Harris, 40, was charged with criminal trespass at the East Hancock Street Jet Foods store. She is accused of “urinating across the store” and “making a mess.” Harris, who previously had been trespassed from the business, denies the allegations of urinating across the store and making a mess.
• A woman said that someone stole $4,700 in cash from her Jeep while she was hiking at Bartram Forest.
Also stolen was a set of Air Pods. The victim and her friend spotted a black pickup truck speeding away from the parking lot, and they attempted to follow the vehicle onto Carl Vinson Road. The victim later “pinged” the Air Pods to an address in the 120 block of Allen Memorial Drive and later to an address on Leroy Oliver Drive. The truck was described as “a newer model black pickup truck with amber lights attached to the side of it.”
• A fight involving two older gentlemen broke out at the Discount Mart on North Columbia Street.
One of the participants was pushed through a store window, in the process. Anthony Ellington, 63, and Angelo McCain, 59, was identified as the two men involved. After an officer reviewed store security footage, Ellington was identified as the aggressor and ultimately charged with battery and felony criminal damage to property. McCain, meanwhile, was charged with probation violation. McCain was “actively bleeding from the left side of his head and face” when officers first arrived.
• A man said that the mother of one of his children came into Applebee’s while he was eating and picked up his plate off the table and threw it at him.
The man and an Applebee’s manager declined to press charges, but the woman was trespassed.
• A man was arrested after sticking his hand in the Blackbird Coffee tip jar and taking money. An officer responded to the coffee shop, reviewed the store security footage and immediately recognized the man as Jamara Taylor, “due to having history with the subject.” Taylor, 37, later was located, handcuffed and charged with possession of a Schedule I controlled substance and misdemeanor theft by taking.
• Break-ins, thefts and/or entering autos were reported in the 120 block of North Pickens Street, the 410 block of Earnest Byner Street, as well as the Burger King bathroom.
In Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office news:
• An elderly man and his stepson were both arrested after a having a disagreement that involved not cutting the grass and a cane. Thomas Dylan Hatcher, 33, and Mark Steven Schiebner, 70, were each charged with one count of misdemeanor battery/family violence.
During the skirmish, Schiebner fell to the ground and sustained swelling around his eye. Hatcher told officers that Schiebner pushed him with the cane, which caused Schiebner to lose his balance, while Schiebner maintains that Hatcher pushed him down.