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Repo Man Hits Augusta Teen with Car Over Saggy Pants

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A local repo man struck an Augusta teen with his car Tuesday following a dispute over the youth’s saggy pants, according to authorities.

Jeffery Blaine Carter II, 33 (mugshot), of McCormick Road, Martinez, was charged with reckless conduct and battery.

Jamesian Gibbons victimThe teen, 19-year-old Jamesian Gibbons (Twitter photo, right), told authorities he was walking home from his girlfriend’s house on Peach Orchard Road at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when he heard Carter shout: “Pull up your pants!”

“Whatever,” Gibbons replied.

“You better pull up your pants boy,” he quoted Carter as saying. “I’m a police officer.”

Gibbons said he kept walking but Carter demanded he return since he was a cop.  So the teen turned around and walked back towards Carter because he didn’t know if he was a real officer. He asked the man to see his badge, but Carter said no.  Carter began yelling at him and telling the youth that he needed to do as he was told, a sheriff’ report says.

“You not a real cop,” Gibbons said. “You don’t have a computer in your car. You just have a GPS.”

The teen says Carter then spit in his face, so the victim punched Carter, leading to a fight. Gibbons allegedly struck the teen with a flashlight, which broke from the impact, a sheriff’s report says.

Then, Carter got into his vehicle and hit the teen, but not hard since the victim jumped to the side as the car was coming, the report says. The second time, Gibbons jumped in the air because the car was coming fast. He lost his step on the hood and fell into the windshield and rolled off onto the ground.

When Carter backed up again, the  teen ran to a couple nearby for help.

The suspect has a different story, saying that he did not hit Gibbons with this car, but was backing up to get away. In fact, the suspect claims the teen started the entire incident when he approached Carter’s vehicle and asked if he was a cop. Carter says the teen spit on his vehicle, punched him through the open window, and kicked the door. When Carter threatened to call police, the youth “stepped up onto the hood of his vehicle and started kicking the windshield until it shattered,” Carter told authorities.

Carter said he got back into his vehicle and backed up all the way around to the other side of the building and got out of the car and walked down the street.

However, a married couple who witnessed the incident said they saw Carter punching the teen before the suspect got into his vehicle and pulled forward, hitting Gibbons.

“Mr. Carter backed up and pulled forward trying to run over Mr. Gibbons,” a sheriff’s report says, quoting the couple. “(The male witness) stated that Mr. Gibbons jumped onto the hood of the vehicle to avoid being hit but he slipped and fell into the windshield shattering it. He stated that Mr. Carter went to back up again and that’s when he and his wife jumped from their vehicle and told him to stop.”

Carter was arrested on the scene and taken to jail, where he remained Thursday morning.

Gibbons refused EMS on the scene for his injuries.

 

 

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Greg Rickabaugh
Greg Rickabaugh
Greg Rickabaugh is an award-winning crime reporter in the Augusta-Aiken area with experience writing for The Augusta Chronicle, The Augusta Press and serving as publisher of The Jail Report. Rickabaugh is a 1994 graduate of the University of South Carolina and has appeared on several crime documentaries on the Investigation Discovery channel.
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