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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
Domestic tranquility
ByRAYUGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
About 9:50 p.m. Sunday, a
man reported fighting with a
woman at his Kathleen resi
dence. Deputies met him in
his pickup in front of his
residence. There was glass
and the label from a broken
beer bottle on the front of
the truck.
He said he’d been in a fight
with a woman who hit him
upside the head with the
bottle.
He reportedly had been try
ing to leave and she followed
him out to the driveway.
When he got in the truck, she
swung the half-empty beer
bottle at him, breaking the
bottle.
She then banged her head
on the window as he tired to
roll it up and kept hanging
on the window as he tried
to drive off. Her 14-year-old
daughter tried to pull her off
the truck and she did eventu
ally let go. The woman then
picked up the broken glass
off the driveway, ran and
threw it on the hood of the
truck, The woman a substi
tute teacher for the Houston
County Board of Education
was inside the house when
deputies arrived.
When she opened the
'door the deputy could smell
a strong odor of alcoholic
beverage on her breath and
person and she had a small
knot on her forehead. She sat
down when the deputy asked
what happened but refused
to say.
She called her daughter,
14, in and asked what time
she got home. The mother
also attempted to pull the
daughter away from the dep
uty when he tried to talk to
her about what happened.
The mother was then
arrested and placed in the
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Gen. Bruce Carlson, commander, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Ohio, left, presided over the change of command ceremony Friday in
which Maj. Gen. Michael Collings, center, relinquish command of the Warner Robins Air
Logistics Center to Maj. Gen. Tom Owen.
OWEN
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He previously served at
Robins twice, and was pro
moted to full colonel dur
ing his first tour here from
June 1996 - July 1998, as
commander, 93rd Logistics
Group, 93rd Air Control
Wing. He was promoted to
full colonel on Sept. 1, 1996.
During his second tour at
Robins, from February 1999
to September 2001, he come
over from San Antonio
Air Logistics Center, Kelly
AFB, Texas, as director, C-5
Systems Program Office.
“I’m thrilled to be here,”
Owen said. “It’s a dream
come true. If I could pick
- that is not how it works
- but if I could it would be
here.”
Owen, Gen. Bruce Carlson,
commander of Air Force
Materiel Command offici
ated the change of command
ceremony in the Museum of
Aviation’s Century of Flight
Hangar. He had high praise
for Collings who has been
WR-ALC commander since
February 2004 and is being
assigned as Chief, United
POLICE BEAT
patrol vehicle. The daughter
then told the deputy she had
retuned from a sports camp
and her mother and the man
were arguing.
The mother then asked the
daughter to get the mother a
beer, which she did, then the
teen went to her bedroom.
The girl said they continued
to argue and she heard her
mother ripping paper.
When they went outside,
the teen ran after her mother
to pull her off the pickup
truck. The mother let go on
her own.
The girl called her father
and grandmother to come get
her and she left with them.
The paper was an apology
note the man said that he
wrote to the woman. The
woman was charged with
simple assault/battery and
cruelty towards a child.
Per sorts) known
On Saturday, a landlord
called about a tenant who
had not been paying the prop
er amount of rent and had
been given a 50-day notice
in February and March to
move out. The offender did
pay $360 of the SSOO month
ly rent in July, bu was still
owing $6,900.
The tenant also reportedly
jumpered the power box and
was stealing electricity. Flint
Energies was notified. Upon
the deputy’s arrival, jump
ers had been removed but
access to the power box not
restrained.
On Friday a victim loaned
his truck to his son so the
son could go to work. About
28 hours later the son has
not returned with the truck
According to his mother, the
son was on parole and was
using drugs (crack or meth)
States Office of Military
Cooperation - Cairo, United
States Central Command,
Cairo, Egypt.
“Your couldn’t of asked for
a more dedicated command
er. Mike Collings embodied
his mantra of people first,
mission always,” Carlson
said
“It’s a wonderful day,
today,” Collings joked,
“because we’re leaving.”
Collings told “the men and
women of Warner Robins
Air Logistic Command - you
have done things people only
dream about and don’t know
how you did it.
“You continued to deliver
war-winning capabilities
every day.” Collings said.
“We are at war, and will con
tinue to be at war. The peo
ple on the frontline depend
on your support today. At no
time has support for the war
fighter been better.”
Collings rioted the numer
ous awards of excellence won
by units at Robins. “These
men and women are incred
ibly dedicated to what they
do. They are the lifeblood of
what goes on here.”
“As we move this com
mand forward, it is defi
nitely in capable hands,” he
and had made threats of sui-
The victim would said
he would seek his own war
rants for the truck.
On Friday, a woman report
ed that while she was in jail
for a few weeks her mother
left to go to Florida. When
the woman got out, she found
several items missing from
her house. She named a sus
pect who was the only one on
the property at the time, but
who did not have permission
to go into the house. Missing
items included an X-Box
($200) and a Proforce paint
sprayer valued at S4OO.
Persorts) unknown
Between July 26-27,
person(s) unknown stole a
prepaid T-mobile phone from
an unlocked car parked in a
Custer Court driveway.
The victim had just put
SIOO (minutes) on the phone.
T-Mobile advised there was
nothing they could do since
the phone was prepaid.
Calls to the phone were not
answered or it was busy or
not on.
Between July 26-28,
person(s) unknown stole the
tires and wheels off a Volvo
road tractor from a Bonaire
storage yard. Valued estimat
ed at SBOO.
Between July 28-30,
person(s) unknown broke a
window on a victim’s car and
stole it from her Brighton
Drive residence.
On July 28, a construction
company reported person(s)
unknown stole one of its pool
vehicles, which had all the
markings removed as it was
to be sold. It was last seen
on July 21. Keys are also
missing.
said of Owen. “I’m abso
lutely confident he can meet
the challenges of today and
tomorrow.”
Owen entered the Air
Force in 1978 as a gradu
ate of the U.S. Air Force
Academy. Early in his
career he worked on B-52
Stratofortress and KC-135
Stratotanker aircraft and
later served as an F-15 Eagle
maintenance supervisor. He
has commanded an aircraft
generation squadron main
taining F-16 Fighting Falcon
and OA-10 Thunderbolt
II aircraft; a maintenance
squadron performing inter
mediate level aircraft and
munitions maintenance; and
a combat logistics support
squadron providing F-16 and
F-4 Phantom aircraft battle
damage repair, supply and
transportation support.
Owen was the first logistics
group commander for the
first and only wing operating
the E-8C Joint Surveillance
Target Attack Radar System
aircraft. As the group com
mander of this organiza
tion, he was also responsible
for off-equipment repair of
Air Mobility Command KC
-135R and Special Operations
Command EC-137 aircraft.
LOCAL
WRPD Citizen's Police
Academy starts Tuesday
ByRAYUGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The purpose of the
Citizen’s Police Academy is
not to teach members of
the community to be police
officers.
Instead, said Capt. John
Clay, “it’s an opportunity for
them to gain a better under
standing of the responsibili
ties and challenges of the
police profession.”
Participants in the 12-
week program learn about
the criminal justice sys
tem, how to work with local
police to address commu
nity problems and more
specifically about the differ
ent units and training for
the Warner Robins Police
Department - from CSI and
CID to CARES.
The class begins with
an overview of the police
department, Clay said, and
includes “lots of hands on
sessions, where you get up
out of your seat.” Classes
include instruction by offi
cers in various departments
from Training, Patrol,
Criminal Investigation
Division, Canine, Narcotics
“and IDC - what they call
CSI on TV”
In the Crime Scene
Investigation class, Clay
said, we’ll show how we
shoot shoe prints off the
floor and cast footprints.
They’ve got a whole truck
of equipment.”
Other classes include:
Hiring Process - the tests
officers has to go through
to become a member of
the Warner Robins Police
Department. Students will
have the opportunity to run
the physical agility test;
Communications - a tour
of the 911 Center and police
communication systems;
Use of Force and Defensive
Tactics - learn how police
officers are trained to defend
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and
Firearms - the last class,
where participants learn
about and get to shoot the
different guns used by police
at the firing range.
There is also a ride along
part of the class, where stu
dents go out with patrol offi
cers.
You do not have to be a
resident of the city to par
ticpate. Former graduates
include city employees, city
council members, officers’
spouses and future police
officers. Maj. John Wagner,
now commander of the
Operations Division, took
the class while a college stu
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