Watkinsville Police Make Warrant Arrest

In his weekly news release, Watkinsville Police Chief Lee O'Dillon recapped some of the incidents that police responded to during the week ending on Sept. 16:

• At 3:40 p.m. on Sept. 10, a city police officer spotted a passenger in a 2001 Ford Taurus who had an outstanding arrest warrant. After the car stopped at a local business, Ray Lee McDaniel, 26, of Winterville,  was arrested on an Oconee County probation violation charge. McDaniel was booked into the Oconee County Jail.

• Just after midnight Wednesday, Sept. 12, police stopped a 2004 Dodge Durango leaving the Briars subdivision off Norton Road. A computer check revealed that the driver had a suspended driver's license. Brian Keith Martin, 27, of Watkinsville, was booked and later released after posting bond.

• Police were called to a VFW Drive address around 11 p.m. last Thursday, Sept. 13, where an intoxicated 44-year-old Athens woman was refusing to leave a residence at the request of the homeowner. Police stood by until a friend from picked her up.

• Sunday, Sept. 16 at 8:15 p.m., police responded to a domestic situation at a VFW Drive apartment address. One person had already left the residence but was continuing to call and send text messages to the resident. Police contacted the 31-year-old man from Athens and advised him to stop contacting the woman.

Watkinsville police responded to a total of 29 calls within city limits between Sept. 10 and Sept. 16. 

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