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A busy Thursday ends safely Officers responded to a call on McDowell Street last Thursday after a black male hit an elderly black lady in the head with a stick and fled with her purse. The suspect fled from the scene on a bicycle. A short time later he ditched his bike behind a residence on Freeman Road by the railroad tracks, along with the purse and a shirt he was wearing. He then stole another bicycle and rode off. Investigators found his bike and the purse a short time later and were investigating the scene when Tavis Battey was spotted by one of the officers riding back down Freeman Road on the bicycle. After he was stopped, it was determined by officers that the victim, 67-year-old Pinky Wimberly, was Battey's cousin and that his girlfriend worked for Wimberly. They also recovered the cash taken from Wimberly's purse from Battey. Battey, 30, of 308 MLK Blvd., was charged with armed robbery and aggravated assault. Anyone with additional information on the incident is asked to call Lt. Tim Hardrick at 723-3158. Later that same day local officials received a call that a high speed chase in Alabama appeared to be headed into Georgia and toward Blakely. Responding officers met the speeding vehicle three miles into Georgia and clocked it at 93 miles per hour. They turned around and followed the 2004 Pontiac Sunfire as it sped towards Blakely at speeds over 100 miles per hour. The woman driving the vehicle ran off the road and crossed the center line several times running vehicles off the road. One motorist narrowly avoided a head-on collision with the vehicle as she passed a tractror trailor truck. She slowed to speeds of 60 to 70 miles per hour when she got inside the city limits. Columbia Road was congested with traffic and bystanders headed to Standifer Field for the Bobcats pre-season game. She ran off the right side of the road in front of the library in an effort to get around some vehicles, but struck a culvert, going airborn and flipping. The car came to rest upside down in the high school parking lot. Officers and EMTs pulled the woman from the vehicle and took her to the emergency room. From there she was later transported to a Dothan hospital. A variety of prescription drugs were found in the woman's vehicle along with marijuana and open containers of beer.
The woman was identified as Kayla Thornton Parker, 30, of Dothan. She has been charged with a variety of vehicular charges in addition to aggravated assault, eluding a police officer, possession of marijuana, alcohol DUI and drug DUI.
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