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PTC man wanted after youth football tiradeThu, 09/20/2007 - 3:21pm
By: John Munford
A Peachtree City man is wanted on several criminal charges revolving around a tirade at a Packers youth football game Saturday, Sept. 8, and fleeing from a police officer at Riley Field two days later. Gerren Gamble Smith, 39, is charged with four counts of disorderly conduct after he used abusive, vulgar and profane language “in the presence of numerous persons under the age of 14 ... who were attempting to engage in a Peachtree City youth football game,” according to one of the arrest warrants. Smith was upset that his son wasn’t running the ball enough, police were told by witnesses. No physical threats were made during the confrontation between Smith and his son’s coach, police said. But according to the incident report, a witness told police that Smith placed his hands on the coach’s chest “in a threatening manner.” Four victims told police several days after the incident that they were in fear of their well-being during Smith’s tirade Saturday, leading to the four disorderly conduct charges, police said in an incident report on the matter. “They stated that the offender was nose to nose with each victim at different times making threats, and sometimes poking the victims in the chest,” the report stated. Smith is also charged with obstructing a police officer after he drove off from Riley Field Sept. 10 although the officer told him to come back so he could be issued a criminal trespassing warning, the warrant said. Smith was also driving with a suspended license and is charged with hitting a fence and barricade with his 2007 Ford Expedition before he left the area, police said. The officer was attempting to serve a criminal trespassing warning because football association officials had decided to ban Smith from the fields in light of Saturday’s incident, police said. Before Smith drove off from the officer Monday, he provided the officer a copy of his Louisiana driver’s license, and told the officer he was a Katrina evacuee, police said. Smith left the officer, saying he was going to move his truck from a handicapped parking space, and the officer told him to return after moving the vehicle, police said. When he drove off, Smith left his son at football practice, and the boy’s mother came to pick the child up, the officer said in the incident report. “I attempted to speak with the wife, unidentified, however she was extremely confrontational and refused to speak about the incident stating this entire incident was ‘discrimination,’” the officer wrote. Smith was indicted Sept. 11 by a Fayette County grand jury on charges stemming from a domestic dispute at his home in the Harmony Village apartment complex earlier this year, according to court records. Smith faces one felony count of making terroristic threats for threatening to beat his wife, three counts of disorderly conduct and one count of obstruction of a police officer after he locked himself in a bedroom after officers announced they were going to arrest him on outstanding warrants, police said. login to post comments
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