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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 137, NUMBER 025
BELOW THE FOLD: Sex offender fails to register; jailed again Bills would change annexation process
Tuesday
February 6, 2007
The Home Journals
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IN BRIEF
Perdue names
Blackmon to board
Gov.r Sonny Perdue has named
Z. Shaw Blackmon 111 of Warner
Robins to the Board of Community
Affairs as a member at large.
Blackmon, 33, serves as the
president and CEO of National
Bank Products. He also served as
a district sales manager, informa
tion officer and chief operating
officer for the company.
He is a vice chairman of the
Warner Robins Chamber of
Commerce and chairman of the
Middle Georgia Technical College
Foundation. He is also a mem
ber of the board of directors of
the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame,
Sunmark Bank, the Museum of
Aviation, the Houston County
Heritage Foundation and Central
Baptist Church of Warner Robins.
He earned a bachelor's degree in
management information systems
from the University of Georgia.
- From staff reports
Republican party to
hold mass meeting
The Houston County Republican
Party will hold its annual mass
meeting Feb. 24 at the Ted Wright
Park Activity Center located at
2841 Moody Rd, in Bonaire.
Registration will be from 9-10
a.m. with the doors closing at
10 a.m. sharp. According to a
release, nobody will be allowed to
enter the meeting after that point.
According to party chairman
Judy Goddard, there will not be
a February Saturday breakfast
meeting due to the meeting.
All Houston Count residents
who are legally registered to vote
and believe in, according to the
release, “the principles of the
Republican party are urged to
participate in this process."
Other Republican party events
coming up are: March 24,
Houston County Republican party
Convention: April 21, Eighth District
Republican party Convention and
May 18-19, Georgia Republican
State Convention, Duluth.
BIRTHDAYS
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com or send them to: 1210
Washington St., Perry 31069
attn: Don Moncrief. You can
also call him at 987-1823,
Ext. 231.
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Perry police make quick wopk of pobbeps
Holding the couple up at gunpoint, they forced
them into their motel room, where they robbed
them of the money they had and went through
their belongings to find more valuables...
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
'Journal Staff Writer
A couple got off 1-75 in
Perry early Saturday morn
ing, to find a motel and get
some sleep. They were on
their way from Florida to
Tennessee with their 1-year
old baby and their 3-year
old.
They didn’t get any sleep,
though. They got held up
Burning by the book
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ENI Gary Harmon
Garrett Hofmann prepares to place a retired flag into the fire during the flag retirement cer
emony held by Sukey, DAR at Christ United Methodist Church on Russell Parkway in Warner
Robins Saturday.
Sex offender fails to register; jailed again
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Monroe Jackson 111 is back in jail for once
again failing to register with authorities.
Jackson, 32, had pled guilty and was sentenced
to 10 years probation just two weeks ago for fail
ure to register as a sex offender. That charge is
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and robbed at gun point, and
they also learned how fast
Perry's Police Department
can work.
The story starts, as Public
Safety Director George
Potter tells it, with a flat
tire.
Christopher Williamson,
18, 931 Barnard Street,
Montezuma, and Benny
Walker, 20, 3615 Coogle
Road, Oglethorpe, were in
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from an Aug. 16 2006, offense in which he was let
out on bond in October with the conditions that
he not reside with his mother and not go within
1,000 feet of where children congregate.
He was also arrested in December for the same
thing and had been considered an absconder
See OFFENDER, page >/l
Four found guilty
in tax fraud scam
By RAY LIGHT NER
Journal Staff Writer
Now that you have your W-2s in hand, here’s
a reminder about what happens if you cheat on
your taxes or come up with a scheme to get oth
ers to do so.
Four people have been found guilty of mul
tiple counts of filing or causing false claims for
refunds to be filed with the IRS. They were
the promoters and recruiters for a scheme,
explained United States Attorney Maxwell
Wood for the Middle District of Georgia, that
recruited taxpayers to file false amended tax
returns with the Internal Revenue Service.
Subsequently, the taxpayers would claim tax
refunds to which they were not entitled ranging
from $33,913 up to $89,612.
Joseph Jordan Sr., of Warner Robins, Eretta
Nelson, formerly of Fort Valley, Ozee Rogers
Sr., of Macon and Hewis Cross of Leesburg,
were convicted following a jury trial before the
Honorable Judge C. Ashley Royal of conspiracy
to file false claims for refunds with the Internal
Revenue Service, and with multiple counts of
filing or causing false claims for refunds to be
filed with the IRS
Wood said in a press release, the maximum
penalties for the conspiracy charge is 10 years
imprisonment and a $250,000 fine, and the
maximum penalties for each violation of filing
false claims is five years imprisonment. Four
other defendants - Ernest T. Butts, Calvin A.
McCaskill, and Lola C. Brokemond - were found
not guilty.
The recruited taxpayers were told by the
defendants that the IRS secretly places taxes
paid by individual taxpayers into interest bear
ing accounts, and that the defendants had
See SCAM, page fA
Bills would change
annexation process
By RA Y LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
There are currently three bills making their
way through the General Assembly to address
annexation.
If passed, the bills would change the way
annexations are done and give the county more
say in the annexation and arbitration process.
House Bills 2 and 36 had second readings Jan.
11, and both have been assigned to the House
Committee on Governmental Affairs. House
Bill 46 also had a second reading as of Jan. 22
and has been assigned to the House Judiciary
Committee.
Representative Larry O’Neal, R-Warner
Robins, serves on both committees.
House Bill 2 provides for arbitration if the
city annexes land where the county provides
services, or it is part of the county comprehen
sive zoning plan. It also requires county consent
for city annexation if there is a city school sys
tem and provides for injunction if arbitration
cannot be agreed to and to binding arbitration
to resolve the dispute.
House Bill 36 changes provisions of annexa
tions into an adjoining county, which would
directly affect Warner Robins’ forays into
Peach County. It requires meetings between
the city and the county and county approval
and sets notice deadlines for the meetings and
See BILLS, page $A
Andy Bell
of Perry
stands at
attention
along with
members
of Boy
Scout
Troop 550
during the
ceremony.
ENI/Gary
Harmon
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One section • 10 pages
The Relax
Inn in Perry
was the site
of a robbery
Saturday
morning.
The good
news was It
took Perry
police less
than an
hour to
arrest two
suspects in
the holdup.
KNI Gary Harmon