CLEVELAND, Ga. — White County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 25-year-old Anthony Dakota Meeks Saturday evening and charged him with Cruelty to Children, Simple Battery-Family Violence and Criminal Trespass.

Melanie Head, 26, of 1217 Black Road in White County went the Sheriff’s Office to report that she and Meeks live together and became involved in an argument and that she threatened to call the police. According to the incident report, Head said he told her, “I will kill you if you call 9-1-1 and I’m not afraid to put my hands on you.”

Head alleges that Meeks then grabbed her left arm and twisted it and took her cell phone and threw it, breaking the screen. According to the report, Head’s left arm was red and slightly bruised. Head further stated the incident took place of her two children, ages 3 and 7.

Deputies obtained an arrest warrant and went to the Black Road residence where they confronted Meeks who admitted the two had been involved in an argument but that it was strictly verbal and that was no physical contact between them. He said Head had broken the phone herself.
Meeks was then arrested and transported to the White County Adult Detention Center.