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ptousAon Itedhi Bkiutiiitl VOLUME 136, NUMBER 154 Tuesday August 8, 2006 The Home Journal’s FRONT PORCH INSIDE ■ Season previews for Houston County’s and Warner Robins' fast pitch teams. Also, Perry's Mary Riley has been named to team Georgia in the state’s annual golf contest against Florida. - See 1B IN BRIEF ICU meeting set The next ICU meeting is at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Fuddruckers on Margie Drive in Centerville. According to a release, the evening will hold “solid discussion of issues confronting Houston County and middle Georgia.” The meeting is open to the public. BIRTHDAYS Aug. 7 ■ Christi Martinez Today ■ Keith Rich ■ Bailey Woods, 4 ■ Joseph Christopher Walker E-mail your birthdays to: hhj@evansnewspapers.com or donm@evansnewspapers.com or send them to: 1210 Washington St., Perry 31069; attn: Don Moncrief. You can also call him at 987-1823, Ext. 231. DEARLY DEPARTED ■ Felicia Laseann Hardman ■ Harold Otto Wallen Sr. ■ Lula “Lou” S. Bates CDRRECTION An article that ran in Friday’s Houston Daily Journal regard ing Classworks in the school system made it sound as if Classworks had just been implemented in the schools when in fact the program has been in place since 2004. The article was intended as “background” information only. We apologize for the confusion we created. - The editor Also, in further clarification of the picture that ran in Friday’s Journal entitled “At a glance.” According to Capt. Heath Dykes of the Perry Police Department, it was a traffic stop for loud music in the Kroger parking in which three illegal immigrants were detained. The driver, Dykes said, was cited for loud music, no license, no insurance and taken to jail, while the other two were later cited for being here illegally and released. The $25,000 in cash, marijuana and smoking device mentioned in the picture caption actually related to a case taking place earlier, Dykes said. - Ray Llghtner INDEX LOCAL 2 A WEATHER 3 A OPINION 4 A SPORTS 1 B COMICS 4B PERIODICAL 500 Jlllll Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DIGIT 306 July 19, 2006 fS'tm/nM M&usftoii (C'o>i"i)TA U'iMl Mm - - 1 LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville Kathleen man 1 of 4 sentenced ByRAYUGHTNER Journal Staff Writer The U.S. District Court in Macon announced the sentencing of four drug dealers last week. Most of the dealers - of cocaine or methamphetamine - were sentenced Thursday for possession with intent to distribute the controlled sub stances. Only one was from Houston County. He was Danny Lee Johnson, 41, of Kathleen, who was sentenced to 135 months (11 years, three months) in federal prison without parole for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Johnson pled guilty Politics, palates More than 2,000 turn up for fish fry By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer Gov. Sonny Perdue was back in his home county on Saturday, with a crowd of more than 2,000 waiting to greet him at his third annu al fish fry. The event was set to begin at noon, but the lines were already long at 11:30 a.m. Held in the Miller- Murphy-Howard building at the Georgia National Fairgrounds, it was a rallying point for a number of candi dates, with a variety of campaign posters covering the walls. Both of Georgia’s U.S. Senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isaacson, were on stage, as were Bth District Congressional Candidate Mac Collins and Casey Cagle, who is the party’s nominee for lieutenant governor. Also out to meet voters were Karen Handel, candidate for Secretary of State, See PERDUE, page 5A Journal/Charlotte Perkins Tony Sellier, candidate for the House of Representatives, enjoys the catfish with his wife, Judye. www.hhjnews.com March 22 and was sentenced July 13. According to acting U.S. Attorney “Pete” Peterson 111 and Johnson’s plea agreement, he exchanged two cookies of cocaine base, totaling 29.6 grams, with a confidential infor mant for $1,500 outside a bowling center in Macon. The case was investigated by offi cers of the Warner Robins Police Department and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kolman. Kolman also prosecuted the other three cases. Bennie Devon Terry, 38, of Miami, Fla., was sentenced Thursday also, !% / V- ngnl 1 f aTiiSwrfa-ta. , „ , , ...-T-ir-iMM.,. . ■ - — 1 Journal/Charlotte Perkins Gov. Sonny Perdue speaks to the big crowd in the Miller-Murphy-Howard building, and First Lady Mary Perdue watches on. to 210 months (17 1/2 years) in fed eral prison without parole for pos session of cocaine with intent to dis tribute. He pled guilty March 22 to possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of cocaine. According to Peterman, Lamar County Sheriff's Department stopped Terry for failure to main tain lane and a defective taillight on Interstate 75. A search of the trunk of his car turned up four kilograms of cocaine. John Powell, 34, of Jonesboro, was sentenced Thursday to 170 months (14 years, two months) in federal prison without parole for possession Two sections • 12 pages Below the fold ■ Sex offender picked up for not reporting change of address ■ For once, it’s OK to show your “butt” with intent to distribute 50 grams of methamphetamine as well as pos session of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. He pled guilty Jan. 18. A confidential informant told police they could buy meth from Powell and arranged to buy three ounces from him in a restaurant parking lot in Macon. A search of Powell’s vehicle See DEALERS, page 6A Motorcycle + car = Dory crash ByRAYUGHTNER Journal Staff Writer An accident Thursday resulted in tickets for both parties, and broken bones for one. Perry Police responded Thursday night to a car ver sus motorcycle accident at Sam Nunn Boulevard and W.F. Ragin Street at about 9:26 p.m. According to Perry Police Capt. Bill Phelps, the driver of a Pontiac Sunbird was on W.F. Ragin at Sam Nunn, stopped, looked, observed a motorcycle and then slowed in an attempt to let it go by. Instead, “He was struck by the motorcycle, which caught fire on impact and threw the driver over by (the nearby) Advance Auto Parts (store),” Phelps said. “It (the motorcycle) (then) burned up on scene.” The driver of the motor cycle, Kyle Garbisch, 28, had some broken bones, but was alright other than that, Phelps said. See CRASH, page 64 Sex offender picked up for not reporting By RAY UGHTNER Journal Staff Writer Jimmie Phillips Boatner was arrested Tuesday for moving and not telling the police. / \ Boatner, | 1 53, was *f ■***' *1 arrested “ #& Jr Tuesday at ) «J^ r Tt the Houston County k Sheriff’s BOATNER Office and was jailed without bond for not noti fying the Sheriff’s Office of his change in address. “I don’t know why he didn’t tell me he’d moved,” said See OFFENDER, page 2A WRFD to sell Boston butts By RAY UGHTNER Journal Staff Writer Take your butt home for Jerry’s Kids. The Warner Robins Fire Department is sell ing smoked and wrapped Boston butts again this year See WRFD, page 6A mM/m )F/\Wvm' )s!miS : i?\mtt