An Augusta teen has remained in jail for two weeks after allegedly smearing Smucker’s jelly on her ex-boyfriend’s truck while he was working on the campus of Augusta University.
Jordan Rogers, 19, of Joy Road, Augusta, is also accused of throwing eggs on the blue Dodge Dakota truck and ripping off the knobs of his radio, according to a AU police report.
The victim was working inside Oak Hall at 12:30 in the morning Oct. 21 when Rogers found out his location and came to confront him about relationship issues. She was joined by a group of other females. The victim came outside and saw it was her and left to avoid any conflict.
The suspect and her friends tried to get inside Oak Hall but the doors were locked with badge access only.
“He then heard loud crashing sounds outside and he went outside to see what was happening,” the report says. “He observed Rogers and three other black females inside and around his truck inflicting damage.”
The ex-boyfriend went outside and told her to stop, but Rogers took a fighting stance and swung at his face. He told police that he hit Rogers in her face and then retreated inside Oak Hall. She was later seen with a bloody nose.
Campus police responded and found the truck with a broken jelly jar in the rear of the truck bed. There was red jelly from the jar smeared on the truck and covering the windows. There was also raw egg and eggshells on the truck and around the parking area. A knife with red jelly on it was on the front driver’s seat with red jelly on it. Also, an officer noticed a broken radio knob and red jelly on the radio.
Rogers, tracked to a home on Telfair Street, tried to report the assault by her ex-boyfriend. Asked about the damage, Rogers confessed to causing the vandalism “because they were having issues.”
The officer told Rogers that her ex-boyfriend was justified in hitting her since she was damaging his vehicle and took a fighting stance.
The vandalizing vixen was locked up for entering a vehicle to commit theft or felony and criminal trespassing. She has remained in the Charles B. Webster Detention Center since then, unable to make the $7,000 bond. The other women were not arrested and could not be immediately identified, police said.
And how did they know it was Smucker’s jelly? The suspect left the evidence right on the roof of the truck!
