Joel Haverly

Name:
Haverly, Joel

Date of Booking:
09/29/2025

Reason(s) For Booking:
DISORDERLY CONDUCT

Officer’s Narrative:
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On Monday, September 29, 2025, at approximately 17:00 hours, I, Officer McIntyre, responded to 12165 Highway 92, Publix, in reference to a call of a disorderly male, later identified as Joel Haverly, screaming racial slurs to a black male because he had a hood up on his sweatshirt and arguing with the manager.

Upon arrival, I located Joel and the Manager on duty, [WITNESS #1], outside the front doors of the Publix. As I approached, I could hear Joel arguing with [WITNESS #1]. As I approached the two individuals, Joel began walking away and continued to walk away after being told to stop multiple times and identifying myself as a law enforcement officer. Joel finally stopped walking and I demanded his identification and asked what happened to which he rambled about the black male wearing his hood in the store and how it made him nervous. I detained Joel in handcuffs, checked the handcuffs for proper fit, and double locked them prior to searching him and placing him in the back passenger area of my patrol vehicle. and spoke to [WITNESS #1] inside who stated Joel ordered a sub sandwich at the deli and ate it prior to paying for it and when [WITNESS #1] confronted him and asked him to pay for it, Joel did not have money. [WITNESS #1] denied pressing charges, but asked that Joel be criminally trespassed from the property.

I returned back outside to my patrol vehicle where I informed Joel of the criminal trespass warning and informed him that he was under arrest for disorderly conduct for being loud and boisterous inside the business of Publix and “without provocation, uses to or of another person in such other person’s presence, opprobrious or abusive words which by their very utterance tend to incite to an immediate breach of the peace”.

Joel was transported to the Cherokee Adult Detention Center where he was turned over to jail staff to await the booking process.

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