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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 61
BELOW THE FOLD: Perry residents feel effects of power outage ■ Bridge named for Wiggins INSIDE: John Berry to perform
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March 29, 2007
The Home Journal s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Home, Garden show
Saturday, Sunday
, The annual Home and Garden
Show sponsored by the Beltista
Club will be held Saturday and
Sunday in the Miller, Murphy,
Howard Building, Georgia National
Fairgrounds in Perry. More than
70 dealers will be showing and
selling products at the show.
According to a release, the gar
den area will be filled with plants,
outdoor accessories and garden
supplies of every description.
Refreshments will be sold by the
Delphian Club.
Tickets are $5, available at the
door or from any Beltista mem
ber. Call Iris Tedders at 987-4262
or Ruth McCown at 987-5221 for
more. All benefits go to commu
nity charities, services and cultural
efforts.
Wreck temporarily
shuts down Ga. 247
An accident Wednesday morn
ing on Ga. 247 had the road closed
for about an hour.
Houston County Sheriff's Office
Patrol Shift Supervisor Sgt. Guy
Fussell said the accident remains
under investigation. “Evidently one
crossed the centerline hit another
and a third was caught in the
debris." Fussell said. “Basically, it
was a head-on sideswipe."
The accident occurred before 8
a m. on Ga. 247 near Ga. 127 and
Sylvan Road.
Fussell said there were only
minor injuries, and the injured
were taken to local .hospitals for
treatment.
- flay Lightner
Fort Valley to hold
Picnics in the Park
Beginning today, Fort Valley
Main Street and the City of Fort
Valley will once again sponsor a
series of Picnics in the Park at
the bandstand in downtown Fort
Valley.
The picnics are free to the pub
lic and will be held from noon-1:30
p.m. on the fourth Thursday of
each month from March-May and
September-November, weather
permitting.
Each picnic will feature music by
local performers and food for sale
by a local vendor.
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Police raid nets drugs, guns
Arms included assault, sniper rifles; large quantity of marijuana found
By RAT LIGHTNER
Journal Sta ff Writer
A Monday morning raid result
ed in six arrests on drug and gun
charges.
About 10:20 p.m., the Houston
County Sheriffs Office Narcotics
Unit executed a search warrant at
108 Brandonshire Lane, Warner
Robins, and reportedly found a large
quantity of marijuana and firearms.
Sgt. Wayne Franklin of the
Narcotics Unit said they found
“about four to five pounds of weed
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For more, see 6A.
DUIs mar weekend activities
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Police were busy this weekend, unfortu
nately mailing DUI arrests. These three are
just some of those that occurred.
How about a ride to jail instead?
William Patrick Fuhrman, 30, of 210
Southland Station, Warner Robins, report
edly kept asking if he could walk home dur
ing a traffic stop and field sobriety tests.
The officer stopped Fuhrman after report
edly observing him run the red light at
Moody Road and Russell Parkway and hit
the curb while pulling into the Burger King
parking lot for the stop. That was approxi
mately at 11:06 p.m. Friday.
The officer reportedly detected a strong
odor of alcoholic beverage coming from
Fuhrman’s breath while speaking to him
about his driving. Furhman also reportedly
did not have his license or proof of insur
ance.
He was arrested after failing to complete
field sobriety tests as instructed. At the jail,
he refused to take the breath test and was
charged with DUI-refusal as well as disre-
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and six guns.”
The guns
included two
assault rifles,
a Remington
a deer/sniper
rifle, an over/
under shotgun
and two hand
guns - a .357
magnum and a
.38 special.
Four adult males were found in
the house at the time of the raid
- Adam Wade McDaniel, 21, Jerome
POLICE BEAT
garding a red light, no license on person
and no proof of insurance.
DUI - part two
Omar Banuelas-Garcia, 20, of Byron was
stopped on Watson Boulevard Sunday about
1:53 a.m. for not having the headlight on.
When asked for his license he produced a
Mexican driver’s license.
The officer also reportedly could detect an
odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from
the vehicle.
When asked how much he had been drink
ing the driver reportedly answered: “water.”
He was then asked to remove his chewing
gum and was administered an alco-senor
test which reportedly produced a positive
result. Banuelas-Garcia was arrested for
DUI and taken to jail where he consented to
a breath tept. The Intox-5000 results were
.090 and .091. The driver was cited for DUI
(alcohol under age 21),
See MAR, page 6A
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“Rome” Leonard Nottingham, 24,
Delwyn Lee “Block” Rollins, 25, and
Justin Christopher Martin, 22.
They are each charged with pos-
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Hundreds in Perry feel
effects of power outage
From staff reports
An equipment failure
near the Northrop Plant
site on Perry Parkway
lead to a power outage for
hundreds of homes in the
Perry area on Tuesday
night, according to Jimmy
Autry, spokesman for Flint
Wiggins bridge gets Senate approval
Special to the Journal
The Senate recently
passed Senate Resolution
104, authored by State Sen.
Ross Tolleson (R-Perry),
honoring Middle Georgia
business leader Eddie
Wiggins with a bridge dedi
cation in Houston County.
Wiggins is the founder of the
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Martin is
also charged
with possession of a firearm by a
convicted felon.
See RAII), page 6A
Energies.
Autry said that under a
thousand homes suffered
power loss.
The outage shut down
traffic lights along
Perry Parkway, includ
ing the heavily-traveled
Ga. 41 intersection and
See POWER, page 6A
21st Century Partnership
and has recently stepped
down as chairman.
The partnership, found
ed in 1993 by him and for
mer Macon Mayor George
Israel, is comprised of a
group of prominent politi
cal, business and civic
See BRIDGE, page 6A
session of
firearm/knife
during the
commission
of a felony
and felony
possession
of marijuana
with intent
to distribute.