THOMASTON POLICE MADE THREE ARRESTS FOR CRIMES IN 2016

THE THOMASTON POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS HAD A BUSY NEW YEAR WITH A SHOOTING, A HOME INVASION, A ROADSIDE ROBBERY, AN ATTEMPTED VEHICLE THEFT AND A DECEASED MAN FOUND IN A MOTEL ROOM. IN ALL , THREE SUSPECTS HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.

ACCORDING TO LT. ANDREW PIPPIN, THE P.D. RESPONDED TO URMC JAN. 2ND AFTER TWO BLACK MALES SAID THEY WERE VICTIMS OF A DRIVE BY SHOOTING ON THIRD STREET. ONE HAD A HAND WOUND, THE OTHER SHOT IN THE THIGH AREA. BOTH LATER TREATED AND RELEASED. THEY TOLD POLICE THEY WERE STANDING IN THE FRONT YARD AND A VEHICLE DROVE BY AND SEVERAL SHOTS WERE FIRED AT THEM.

POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR A TALL SLENDER BLACK MALE IN A BLACK HOODIE DRIVING A GREEN MUSTANG, MODEL 95 TO 1998 FOR A ROADSIDE ROBBERY ON A. STREET. AT 6 AM JAN. IST, A FEMALE MOTORIST SAID SHE HAD CAR TROUBLE AND PULLED OVER. A FORD MUSTANG STOPPED AND THE DRIVER OFFERED HELP . HE THEN SEEMED TO HAVE A GUN UNDER HIS SHIRT, DEMANDED MONEY , TOOK HER CASH AND DROVE OFF IN THE MUSTANG WITH TINTED WINDOWS. POLICE NEED THE PUBLIC'S HELP WITH THIS CASE.

A HOME INVASION, JAN IST ON THIRD STREET. POLICE ARRESTED TRAVIS SINCLAIR THOMAS ON CHARGES OF KIDNAPPING, BURGLARY, SEXUAL BATTERY AND OTHER CHARGES. LT. PIPPIN SAID HE ENTERED THE BACK DOOR, FOUND A JUVENILE IN THE KITCHEN, FORCED THE JUVENILE INTO ANOTHER ROOM AND STARTED TOUCHING THE VICTIM. HE FLED ON FOOT AND WAS CAUGHT , ARRESTED AND JAILED BY POLICE.

JAN. 2ND AN ATTEMPTED CAR THEFT ON WEST GOODRICH AVE. THE VICTIM HEARD HIS TRUCK BEING CRANKED AND SAW TWO WHITE MALES INSIDE. HE YELLED AT THEM AND THEY JUMPED OUT AND THE TRUCK ROLLED INTO A NEIGHBORS FENCE. TWO ARRESTS, TOMMY NEAL ALEXANDER, AGE 26 AND WILLIAM J. SMITH, AGE 17, BOTH OF THOMASTON CHARGED WITH MOTOR VECHILE THEFT.

JAN. IST UNITS RESPONDED TO THE HOLIDAY MOTEL AT 5295 INDIAN TRAIL AND FOUND A MALE UNRESPONSIVLE ON THE FLOOR IN A ROOM. THE MAN, SAVAIEN HAWKINS, AGE 53 WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT UPSON REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER AT 5AM. NO SIGNS OF FOUL PLAY, BUT ALCOHOL AND DRUGS WERE INSIDE THE ROOM. HAWKINS HAD AN EXTENSIVE MEDICAL HISTORY AND BASED ON THE EVIDENCE THE STATE CRIME LAB DETERMINED NO AUTOPSY WAS NEEDED.