“An intoxicated Wanda Myrick” was arrested earlier this month after reportedly picking up a metal baseball bat on Roberts Street and threatening to kill somebody. A neighbor told officers that Myrick “had been acting problematic all day.” Myrick, 59, was charged with one count of felony terroristic threats and acts.
The incident marked the 12th time that Myrick has been booked at the county jail, a criminal history that dates back to 1993. However, that number doesn’t include the times that Myrick was booked at the old city jail, which closed in 2017. To her credit, Myrick’s recent arrest was her first in almost 10 years. Past charges include simple assault, fighting/affray and battery.
IN OTHER MPD NEWS:
• Erica Ann Sikes, 28, had a really, really bad day. The first 911 call came in from the 1320 block of Pecan Boulevard after a metal chair was thrown through a window. The residents of the home identified Sikes as the chair thrower. Officers then spotted Sikes on nearby North Clark Street. “Covered in blood,” she led officers on a brief foot chase before being detained. Sikes was transported to Atrium Navicent Health Baldwin and later arrested. Several hours later, a man in the 1240 block of North Clark Street called 911 after someone ransacked his house and stole his 350-piece tool set. Left behind at the scene was a 7 Brew tee shirt, covered in blood. Earlier in the day, meanwhile, prior to all the chair tossing and breaking into houses, Sikes had checked herself into the hospital while wearing a 7 Brew tee shirt. This piece of information led officers back to Sikes, who then was charged with burglary, along with the charges from the chair throwing incident on Pecan Boulevard. All totalled, Sikes was charged with two counts of obstruction of an officer, as well as one count each of first degree burglary and criminal trespass.
• Officers responded to the 230 block of South Wilkinson Street around 2 a.m.
Sunday, where they encountered a man “sitting in a chair on the front porch smoking a cigarette with blood covering his face and obvious head injuries. Asked what happened, the man told officers that a woman named Sherry beat him up with a baseball bat. Officers entered the home and found Sherry Lee Cornell lying down in a back bedroom, nude. Cornell put some clothes on and said she was sorry, according to the incident report.
Added the incident report: (An officer) noticed a small wooden baseball bat on the bed covered in blood, blood on the bed, blood on the floor and headboards, blood on both bedroom doors and blood in the bathroom.” Cornell then told cops that she and victim had both “smoked crack and marijuna and drank alcohol tonight.”
• Christian Winters, 18, listed with a Fort Valley address, was arrested early Sunday morning after reportedly breaking into a car parked in the library parking lot downtown and stealing two handguns.
• A man was arrested on Sunday after calling 911 12 different times “without an active emergency.” Victor Jerome Washington, 64, was charged with unlawful conduct during a 911 call.
• Officers responded to the tailrace at Sinclair Dam early Saturday morning after two men “had a verbal argument about fishing.” One of the fisherman said that the other one “lifted his shirt and flashed a handgun,” while the other fisherman denied that it never happened. “Due to conflicting stories, no charges were filed.”
• An entering auto was reported in the 2000 block of Robin Circle.