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State Briefs
Man could face a
death sentence
MOULTRIE (AP) - A drug
offender charged with mur
der in the execution-style
slayings of a snitch and four
others in his household,
including a 3-year-old boy,
could face the death penalty
if convicted.
A Colquitt County grand
jury returned a 25-count
indictment last week against
Jerry Johnny Thompson, 45,
of Nashville.
The indictment was
released Tuesday.
Thompson, also known
as “Cubano,” and Wilma
Ann Yvonne Stover, 20,
were charged in August in
the 2004 murders of Jaime
Cruz Resendez, 25; his wife,
Katrina “Tina” Darlene
Resendez, 29; the couple’s
son, Juan Carlos Resendez,
3; Katrina’s mother, Betty
Watts, 50, of Norman Park;
and family friend and
housekeeper, Liliana Alegria
Aguilar, 30.
Children returning home
from school discovered
some of the bodies in the
Resendez home and alerted
the sheriffs department.
Investigators found the
other victims, including the
boy’s body hidden in a bed
room.
Jaime and Katrina
Resendez had been arrested
in nearby Berrien County
in 2003 after drug agents
found 138 pounds of mari
juana in their mobile home.
The couple began cooperat
ing with authorities, giving
information that led to the
arrests of several drug deal
ers in Texas.
According to news reports,
the Resendez couple had
lived in fear, moving three
times in a year and telling
neighbors they were trying
to escape their past.
Five counts of the indict
ment against Thompson
have the required aggravat
ing circumstances to qualify
as capital crimes, but pros-
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ecutors have not indicated
whether they will seek a
death sentence.
Assistant District Attorney
David Miller of Valdosta
declined to comment on the
case citing an ongoing inves
tigation.
He did not return a call
from the Associated Press
on Wednesday.
The grand jury considered
only the charges against
Thompson, not Stover.
Georgia Bureau of
Investigation agents have
said Jaime Resendez was
involved in a marijuana traf
ficking ring that stretched
from Texas to Moultrie. The
drug link resulted in federal
indictments in April 2005 of
Thompson, Stover and four
other associates of Resendez
for trafficking more than
1,000 pounds of marijuana
with a street value of $1
million.
Thompson is serving a 27-
year sentence, without the
possibility of parole, on fed
eral charges of conspiracy to
possess with intent to dis
tribute marijuana.
In a letter to The Moultrie
Observer newspaper,
Thompson admitting his
involvement in trafficking
“175 pounds of weed” but
denied killing anyone.
“Jaime was a major drug
cartel member who snitched
on his bosses in Mexico, and
he was stealing money from
these treacherous people and
I didn’t know all of this at
the time,” Thompson wrote.
“... I didn’t do it, and the
real murderer is still free.”
Leaders support
downtown site
ATLANTA (AP) - Civic
leaders support building a
SIOO million civil and human
rights center in downtown
Atlanta.
A report released
Wednesday by a panel of
leaders says the 2.5 acres of
land offered in October by
Coca-Cola near Centennial
Olympic Park is preferable
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to other sites, including his
toric Auburn Avenue.
The report said the
Centennial Park site “fits
well with the vision of the
center.” It notes the poten
tial visitor traffic, location,
cost, its ability to be devel
oped quickly, acreage, access
to public transit and poten
tial to spur further develop
ment.
The center would show
case the papers of the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.,
which Atlanta acquired last
summer.
It also would recognize
contributions of other
Georgians to the civil rights
movement.
Child molestor
arrested in Miami
ATLANTA (AP) - A man
who authorities in Georgia
and Texas say faked his
death to avoid trial on child
molestation charges has
been arrested in Miami.
Julian Dale Pipkins, 40,
was living in a shelter there
and working as a laborer
when he was arrested
Wednesday without inci
dent.
Pipkins is being held in
the Miami-Dade Pre-Trial
Detention Center but will be
extradited back to Georgia,
where he faces charges in
Fayette County.
HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA
2006 Report on Projects Funded Through Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax
Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2006
Expenditure*
Original Current Prior Year FY2006 Remaining Committed to
Project Estimated Cost Estimated Cost Expenditure* Expenditure* Fund* SPLOST Project* Uncommitted
2001 SPLOST
Road, Street and Bridge Improvements $55,821,250 SSB 478,663 $15,246,810 $3,766,833 $40,465,020 $40,465,020 ;
Public Safety Communications System $12,500,000 $12.505,786 $12,495,786 SIO.OOO *O. : 3. -
Municipal Allocations $16,678,750 $17,572,976 $11456,333 $3,879,655 $2.236,990 $2,236,990 :
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All 2001 SPLOST projects are currently on budget Georgia DOT contracts on Corder Road and South Houston Lake Road (Bear Branch Road to Perry Parkway) are approximately
twenty-four months behind schedule due (o design issues with Georgia DOT. All other projects are complete, or on schedule for completion.
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Police had been looking
for Pipkins since he failed
to show up for his Nov. 6
trial on charges he molest
ed his fiancee’s 12-year-old
daughter. Police said Pipkins
told his son to say he had
drowned during a fishing
trip near Galveston, Texas.
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King namesake debuts new
tribute to parents' vision
By ERRIN HAINES
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA - Even as
Coretta Scott King mourned
the death of her husband,
within days of his assassina
tion she traveled to the city
where Martin Luther King
Jr. was killed to continue his
work.
Now Martin Luther
King 111 says he is work
ing through the grief of his
mother’s death this year
by carrying on the work of
the dreamer and the dream
keeper to eradicate war, pov
erty and racism and promote
nonviolent conflict resolution
through his new nonprofit
organization, Realizing the
Dream.
King co-founded the group
earlier this year with former
U.N. Ambassador Andrew
Young, a lieutenant of Martin
Luther King Jr.’s during the
civil rights movement.
In describing the group’s
goals, King echoes many
of the ideals of The Martin
Luther King Jr. Center for
Nonviolent Social Change,
which his mother founded
shortly after King’s death
in 1968.
King’s new venture is a
breakaway from the center,
though he says that perhaps
one day the two groups can
coexist under the same roof.
“At some point, we stopped
doing that, but I wish we’d
continued that,” King said
of the King Center’s mission
to provide nonviolence, con
flict resolution and leader
ship training.
“I’m trying to relaunch
part of that effort. Many peo
ple talk about ‘the dream,’
but realizing the dream is
about it actually happen
ing,” King said.
So for now, he’s taking
the dream on the road.
King has spent much of this
year touring cities like Los
Angeles, Oakland, Calif., San
Antonio, Tex., Pine Ridge,
S.D., and the Katrina-rav
aged Gulf states, as part of
a 20-community national
tour to educate himself on
the needs in those areas
and build relationships with
business, religious, govern
ment and community lead
ers to bring positive change
to those communities.
Several entertainers, ath
letes, media personalities
and politicians are pitching
in to help King raise money
for his new venture, auc
tioning “dreams” in a year
long fundraising campaign.
Among the first items being
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2006 4
auctioned Thursday are
lunch with former television
news anchor Walter Cronkite
and attending the movie pre
miere of “Ocean’s 13” with
star George Clooney.
Though he had the idea
for Realizing the Dream
before his mother’s death
in January, King said the
project took on new meaning
and urgency after she died
from complications from
ovarian cancer.
King said he was touched
by his father’s example, but
that he was also profound
ly inspired by his mother’s
work, to which he was a wit
ness and partner for much
of his life.
“Mom had the greatest
impact on me,” King said. “I
couldn’t help but be inspired
by the many things she did.
And the work is still there.
I’m just so thankful for her
example.”
King has worked as a
human rights activist, trav
eling to Africa, Europe and
Asia spreading the mes
sage of nonviolence. He
has also served as head
of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference - the
organization co-founded by
his father in 1957 - and
as president of The Martin
Luther King Jr. Center for
Nonviolent Social Change,
which Coretta Scott King
founded in Atlanta shortly
after the civil rights leader
was killed in 1968.
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