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PAGE 6A BARROW JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2008 Public Safety REPORTS ON CRIMES. WRECKS. FIRES & COURTS Found body still not ID d By SUSAN NORMAN A forensic anthropolo gist's study of the bones of an unidentified man found murdered Nov. 16 in Barrow County has helped narrow down the time of death and has provided a general idea of his age. “(Dr. Rick) Snow gave us an age range. He said the victim was probably between 20 and 50. He was defi nitely a male, of an unknown race. We don't know when he died, but (Snow) feels like he'd been dead for at least Three adults Auburn police have arrest ed three Auburn residents in a case involving the alleged statutory rape of a teen girl. Monquez Nathaniel Morton of 411 Breanna Ct. was charged with statutory rape and two counts of con tributing to the delinquency of a minor. Martha Audrey Hensley of Mt. Moriah Road was charged with five counts of contributing to the delin quency of a minor and four counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes. Billy Glenn Lewis II of Mt. Moriah Road was charged with five counts of contrib uting to the delinquency of a minor. Auburn Police Lt. Danny Kearns said that the case is still under investigation and that more charges are pending. two to four days,” said Jim Fullington, special agent in charge of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation District 11 Office in Athens. The information gathered to date has enabled the GBI to rule out a few missing people, Fullington said. He said the GBI now is attempting to create a compos ite of the victim’s face based on the bones and other body parts. The GBI will release to the media a photograph of the model to see if a member of the public recognizes the face statutory OTHER ARRESTS Auburn police also arrest ed eight other people in unre lated incidents Nov. 1-8. Those arrested by the APD and their alleged offenses included: •Christopher Daniel Brady, 17, of 186 Parks Mill Road, Auburn, burglary. •Jonathan Lee Brady, 23, of 186 Parks Mill Road, Auburn, burglary and party to a crime. •Anthony Dewayne Dodd, 28, of 120 Benson St., Lawrenceville, burglary. •Kenneth Anthony House, 21, of 1370 6th Ave., Auburn, theft by receiving stolen property. •Steven Anthony House, 43, of 211 Windy Hill Ct., Jefferson, violation of pro bation. •Kaira Leran Rucker, 22B E. Williams St., Winder, pos- victim, he said. The man’s body was dis covered in woods behind an abandoned house at 998 Atlanta Hwy. The condition of the body was so poor that investigators initially could not tell the vic tim’s gender. Some news agencies have reported that the body was burned and that a bul let was found at the scene, but Fullington has refused to confirm or deny that, saying some of the information in the media has been incorrect. rape charges session of marijuana with intent to distribute and fail ure to stop at a stop sign. • Janey Vorasith, 19, of 192 Bernice Dr., Lawrenceville, battery and consumption of alcohol by a minor. •Charles Edward Wood III, 17, of 1782 Wynfield Lane, Auburn, drugs to be kept in original container. INCIDENT REPORTS During the same period, Auburn police responded to the following incidents: •a harassment com plaint at a home on Atlanta Highway. • a criminal trespass com plaint at a home on Main Street. •a domestic dispute at a home on Carter Road. •a domestic dispute at a home on Hickory Ridge Trail. STIHL - SERVICING DEALERS NATIONWIDE stihlusa.com © 2008 STIHL Are you ready for a STIHL ? LARRY’S EASY PAY 79 N. 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Inside the four boxes in Unit 1006 at the U-Store-It on Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road on Dec. 2 was a cache of sto len or counterfeit documents from an identity theft ring with victims from California to Florida. The recovered evidence includes stolen checkbooks, drivers licenses, Social Security cards, credit cards, health insurance cards and multiple notepads filled with detailed personal information about the victims - their Social Security numbers, home and work numbers, home address es, dates of birth, mothers' maiden names, victims' eye colors and even so-called security questions. “It’s amazing to me just how many lives they had in those boxes,” said the win ning bidder's wife, Jessica, who agreed to an interview, but asked that her last name not be disclosed. U.S. Secret Service agents and U.S. Postal inspectors are assisting Georgia and California law enforcement agencies in an investigation that is “going to stretch well across the United States,” said Detective Sgt. Shane Edmisten of the Suwanee Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division. “We had a table full of iden tification cards and another table full of checkbooks. The checkbooks were from all over the country,” he said. While some of the driver’s licenses and credit cards are counterfeit, the Georgia licenses left behind by the criminals are authentic. “We determined those driv ers licenses are, in fact, real Georgia drivers licenses, which means they were sto len,” Edmisten said. Most of the wallets belong ing to Georgia women were stolen from their purses while they were at work. One vic tim's items were stolen while she was in labor at an Atlanta hospital. “So it’s apparent that the people who took these items were office creepers or hospi tal creepers. They don’t take the whole purse and it is sev eral hours before the victim realizes her wallet is missing,” Edmisten said. Some of the checkbooks belong to Florida victims, he said. “They were brand new boxes still sealed from the check (printing) company. So that’s mail theft going on as well.” Jessica said this was her husband’s first storage unit auction. He went with a friend who had picked up $20,000 in six months by bidding on storage unit contents, sight unseen, and selling whatever was salvageable on eBay or at flea markets. John bid on two units. Inside one unit were a tow bar, some steel cans and unused moving boxes that now are for sale on eBay. In the other unit were the four boxes. The couple used a family member's truck to pick up everything from both units late that evening. “That’s when we started looking through the boxes to see what we got,” Jessica said. “My husband had told me that he had seen some credit cards and IDs. I told him we could send them back. I was thinking if they were for a household of people, it would cost us about $1.50 to mail them.” But as she and her husband dug through the boxes and pulled out scores of driver's licenses, checkbooks and credit cards, they knew some thing was wrong. “There were too many IDs from too many states for it to be right,” Jessica said. The couple called the B arrow County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy came to their house that night and after looking at some of the evidence told the couple that the case was outside his office's jurisdic tion. He recommended that they take the evidence back to the storage business and call Suwanee police. The couple agreed to do that. But, first, Jessica sorted out the evidence. In the first box she put items that would be found in a wal let - driver’s licenses, credit cards. Social Security cards and the like. In the second box, she placed the checkbooks. In the third box, she placed the notepads with the victims’ personal information. Jessica said the handwriting on the notepads was neat. “It was legible, very neat and orderly. I felt like whoever did this, they knew what they were doing. They would have three different people on one page. And beside all of that other information, they would have ‘good’ or ‘no good,'” she said. “I guess that was ‘good' as far as their credit or whether they could get anything out ol (an account).” Jessica filled the fourth box with envelopes and mail taken from victims' mailboxes. Some of the mail was from U.S. Post Office boxes, she said. Also in that box went drug store photographs apparently taken for passports, as well as five H&R Block envelopes with victims' tax returns, she said. The information in the boxes belonged to people residing in California, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Florida and Georgia, Jessica said. To make sure police aggres sively pursued the case, Jessica and John immediately contacted an Atlanta televi sion station and invited a news crew to meet them at the stor age unit in the early morning hours of Dec. 3. “Sometimes when the media is on things, police work a lit tle faster and harder,” Jessica said. “We felt this was some thing serious that really need ed to be worked on.” After interviewing the cou ple, the news crew called the Suwanee Police, who respond ed quickly. “When they saw what was going on, they were imme diately on the radio calling a detective. The next day, we were on every single news channel. Then I knew how serious it was,” Jessica said. Two fired over inmate hanging in Jackson Two employees of the Jackson County Jail have been fired following an internal investiga tion into a recent inmate hanging of a Winder man. Inmate Ricky Finch, 50, Winder, died after hanging himself at the Jackson County Jail after having been arrested in Arcade. He had been put into a “segregation cell” and a 15-minute watch cycle after he indicated to officers that he wanted to harm himself. He was found around 9:30 p.m. that night hanging in the cell by a pair of socks. “As a result of the Sheriff’s office internal investigation, two jail employees have been terminated from employment for failing to fol low proper procedures that are in place for these type situations and not physically checking inmate Finch every 15 minutes as indicated in file documentation,” said Major David Cochran of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. “The discrepancies in the physical checks were dis covered after a review the security tapes.” Fired by the JCSO were Radford Stanley Jr. and Donald Shane Brown. Stanley has appealed his termination to Sheriff Stan Evans, who will hear the matter next week. Cochran said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had not yet released its findings in the matter. GEORGIA SPA CC ). 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