Police: Kids left by mother started fire in open oven
A Lindale woman was in jail without bond Thursday after she left her kids, ages 7 and 8, without heat or water, according to Floyd County Jail records. According to the report: Ramona Ann Milstead, 34, of 811B Park Ave., left the children in the care of a mentally-handicapped person who couldn’t adequately care for them.
The children stuck a piece of cardboard in an open hot oven, which caught fire, causing the fire department to come to the home on Wednesday. The house was reported to be extremely dirty and the toilet was backed up.
Milstead was charged with felony second- degree cruelty to children and with a parole violation.
Rome man charged with
possession of meth
A Rome man was in jail Thursday after police charged him with possession of methamphetamine.
According to Floyd County Jail records:
Robert Lee Maner, 44 of 60 Paris Lane NW, was being held on a $ 5,700 bond Thursday.
Silver Creek man charged with
aggravated stalking
A Silver Creek man was in jail Thursday after police charged him with aggravated stalking, reports stated.
According to Floyd County Jail records:
Eddie Robert Eugene Ware, 30, of 73 Wax Road, is also charged with obstructing or hindering someone making an emergency telephone call and a felony probation violation.
He was being held without bond Thursday.
Police seek attempted armed
robber who fired at pickup
Police were searching Thursday for a man who fired a gun at an occupied pickup truck in the parking lot of a motel on Martha Berry Highway. According to Rome police reports: The driver of the Ford truck told police he and a friend were flagged down Wednesday night by two men wanting a ride to the Cottis Inn, 1105 Martha Berry Highway.
After taking them to the motel, the driver said one pulled out a revolver and demanded money. The driver began to drive forward and the man fired several shots at the car, shattering the back window. The second man who asked for a ride was still the vehicle.
The driver said he drove off south on Martha Berry, then pulled into the lot of Walgreens. The rider, who had been trying to force him to keep driving, ran off. He was later found by police a few buildings away.
However, the rider told a different story to police. He said he was not with the gunman. He said he knew the friend of the driver and the three met at the Cottis Inn. He also denied threatening the driver, saying he was let out peaceably at Walgreens.
No one claimed to know the man who had fired the shots and police have requested a copy of the surveillance video from the motel.
No charges had been filed as of Thursday night.
Man charged with false
imprisonment
A man was in jail Thursday evening without bond after he was arrested on outstanding warrants and charged with false imprisonment.
According to Floyd County Jail reports:
Dennis Wayne Hall, 22, no address available, was in a car with a woman at the intersection of Cave Spring and East Main streets on Feb. 7. Hall would not let the woman get out and repeatedly bashed her head on the dashboard, possibly breaking her nose. He did this in front of a 2- year- old child and a 9month-old child. The woman had visible swelling and bruising on her face.
He is also charged with battery and two counts of third degree cruelty to children.