Eighteen-year-old Fairburn resident Larry Marco Elder was arrested at Fairburn City Court Feb. 8 for stalking a woman in the Meadow Glen area during a two-week period in December and January.

He was arrested in the courtroom before he could respond to prior charges for stalking, criminal trespass and making harassing phone calls stemming from incidents involving another Meadow Glen resident Audrey Jackson during the same period. Elder had been arrested Jan. 8 on those charges.

“On Feb. 8, 2006 while attending court, I noticed that Mr. Larry Elder appeared for a court case. I had knowledge of a warrant for this individual out of this agency prior to court being started. The warrant was verified as a valid warrant for stalking and violation of probation. When Mr. Elder approached the podium before the judge, he was placed under arrest,” according to Officer Robert Winter in a Feb. 8 incident report.

Relating to the Feb. 8 court appearance where he was arrested, Elder had previously been arrested Jan. 8 after charges were filed by Jackson, who said she had been harassed by Elder over the past few weeks both in person and over the telephone. Jackson told police that Elder had called her several times each day, adding that “the offender and his friends come to her house and repeatedly knock on the door, ring the doorbell and stand on her property,” according to police reports.

In his report, Officer Jacob Trujillo noted that Elder has an active criminal trespass warning in effect for the Jackson’s address. The warning stemmed from a 2005 incident involving Jackson, in which Elder received a six-month jail sentence. In a conversation with Jackson, Trujillo said she had expressed over Elder’s early jail release and had finally got fed up with the current situation and called to file new charges.

Elder was released early from jail Dec. 22 where he was serving six months resulting from charges that included damage to property, obscene language, disorderly conduct and trespassing. The charges were brought Meadow Glen resident Melrose Berry. Elder and other males had victimized her and her family, she told Judge Hobie Jones. At the time of that conviction in July, Elder was serving another six-month sentence for a January 2005 incident involving Jackson, who brought new charges that led to Elder’s arrest Jan. 8.

The new charge for stalking, for which Elder was arrested while in the Fairburn court room Feb. 8, resulted from complaints by a woman in the Meadow Glen area, one who had no prior dealings with Elder, according to Officer Zach Phillips.

Fairburn Police Chief Charles Long said Thursday other charges against Elder may be forthcoming based on the results of the investigations of other complaints.

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