Sheriff’s Reports

Counterfeiting/Forgery — According to a report made by Deputy Eric Sawyers, on August 24, Dollar General reported that an unknown male passed five $100 bills on August 24, and the bills were counterfeit. The subject had loaded a card in the store for $500 and gave the clerk five counterfeit bills. Video was obtained and the same subject had passed six $100 counterfeit bills at the Dollar General Bruceton on the same date. The same individual is caught on camera in Subway at Huntingdon and Dollar General using counterfeit money. After a thorough investigation, the police department found that there were two subjects using these counterfeit bills, Jonathan Alexander Hayden and Evans Devon Pelt from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Warrants have been issued.

Aggravated Criminal Littering — According to a report made by Deputy Jeremy Smith, on August 28, he received a public service about illegal dumping on Brewer Road off Spring Creek Rd. in Lavinia from John Robinson. Robinson stated that his friend was able to get a photo of a vehicle dumping material on the side of the road into a creek on Brewer Road. It was a 2005 gold GMC Yukon registered to Joseph Scott of Jackson. On September 3, Sawyers and Meier went to Brewer Road and found a receipt from Sherwin Williams paint store in Jackson. Investigator Sawyers spoke with Scot Whitaker who stated that he had stopped and talked to a guy that was dumping what looked like construction scraps. The guy told him he had been dumping there for years. Mr. Whitaker did get a picture of the license plate and identified the registered owner of the vehicle to be the same person that he talked to at the dump site.