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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 143
BELOW THE FOLD: Storms spark fire at apartment complex ■ One jailed, another sought in home invasion robbery
Tuesday
July 24,2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
Perdue names Holt to
review board
Gov. Sonny Perdue announced
this past week several executive
appointments.
One of those was Angelynn
“Angie” M. Holt of Warner Robins
to the Sex Offender Registration
Review Board.
Holt, 55, is the director of spe
cial investigations at the Georgia
Department of Public Safety. She
is the owner and chief executive
officer of Angie Holt Enterprises, Inc.
She is a former special agent for the
Georgia bureau of Investigation.
She is also a member of the
Reidsville Airport Authority, Peace
Officers' Association of Georgia
and the Board of Trustees for the
International Association of Women
Police. She earned a bachelor’s
degree and a master’s degree from
Georgia Southern College. She and
her husband, Charles, have one
child.
Slides of Italy to be
shown at PUMC
. Martin Beeland will present a slide
program, “Italy at Leisure” Aug. 2 at
the Perry United Methodist Church
Primetime Luncheon, which begins
at noon. He will have more than 100
slides of his and his wife's recent
trip to Italy.
The cost of the luncheon is $5
and reservations must be made by
calling the church office at 987-1852,
by July 31.
BIRTHDAYS
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■ Kelly S. Scruggs
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Suspect shot
in drug raid
Police respond when man pulls gun
By RA T LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Perry Police said they knew Elois Kendrick
KENDRICK
armed. That’s why we used the SRT. Had
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Perry firefighters watch and wait as a Georgia Power lineman cuts the power to a downed line before they can
extinguish a fire at Shady Rest Apartments Friday.
Storms spark apartment unit lire
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Storms Friday knocked
downs trees and limbs all
over Houston County.
In Perry, a limb the size
of a tree came down on
power lines and through the
roof of an unoccupied Shady
Rest Apartments unit. Lt.
Ronnie Crowell of the Perry
Fire Department said the
downed power line caused
the power box to catch fire
and the fire spread to the
roof.
“It was the longest two
minutes,” said another fire
fighter, watching the fire
while having to wait for a
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city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
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would most likely be armed
and because of that, they
brought the SRT team with
them on a raid of Kendrick’s
residence Sunday morning.
The Special Response
Team is a tactical unit of the
Houston County Sheriffs
Office. Perry Director of
Public Safety George Potter
said, “the intel was he was
"The intel was he was armed
... Had our detectives gone
in without the assistance ol
the SRT, they could have been
shot or killed."
- Perry Director of Public Safety George Potter
our detectives gone in without the assis
tance of the SRT, they could have been shot
See RAID, page 6A
Georgia Power lineman to
cut power off to the line
before firefighters could put
the fire out.
The fire was contained
to a small area near the
roof of units 1 and 2, and
was stopped before it could
spread through the connect
ed attic to the other unit,
Crowell said. Most of the
damage was caused by the
fallen limb, which caused
structural damage to the
roof on units 1 and 2, crash
ing through the ceiling of
unit 1.
Both units were unoccu
pied and being renovated.
See FIRE, page 6A
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A tree limb crashed through the roof of Unit 1 at Shady
Rest Apartments on Second Sheet Friday afternoon.
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Deputy arrested on
2 battery charges
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Michael Paul Hinojosa,
35, of Bonaire was arrested
Friday for simple battery
and sexual battery.
Both charges are mis
demeanors, said Houston
County Sheriffs Office
Chief Deputy Billy Rape.
“The complaint came in
the same day as the inci
dent and I removed him
"The complaint came in the same day
as the incident and I removed him from
the road that afternoon."
-Houston County Sheriffs Office Chief Deputy Billy Rape
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from the road that after
noon,” Rape said.
The Sheriffs Office
received a complaint from
a citizen about inappropri
ate behavior by a Patrol
deputy that involved the
unwanted touching of a
female by the deputy while
the deputy was on duty and
assigned to a patrol shift.
Rape said the complaint
See CHARGES, page 6A
WR man dies
in Iraq attack
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
Army Spc. Daniel Enrique
Gomez of Warner Robins
died July 18 in Adhamiyah,
Iraq, along with three other
soldiers.
The Department of Defense
announced the names of
the soldiers on Saturday,
reporting that all four died
of wouncf sustained when
their vehicle was attacked
by enemy forces using an
improvised explosive device
and small arms fire.
Gomez and the other fallen
soldiers were assigned to the
Ist Battalion, 26th Infantry,
2nd Brigade Combat Team,
Ist Infantry Division,
Schweinfurt, Germany.
Gomez was a 2004 gradu
ate of Warner Robins High
School.
Principal Steve Monday,
who knew Gomez person
ally, said, “He was an out
standing young man and
a good student. He had a
See 6A
1 jailed, another
sought in robbery
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
One of the two suspects in a
Wednesday
morning
home inva
sion robbery
on Bear
Branch
Road in
Kathleen
was
arrested
Thursday.
David L.
Tolbert Jr.,
was arrested at his Macon
residence without incident
and on charges of kidnap
ping and armed robbery.
He remains held without
bond in the Houston County
See ROBBERY, page 6 A
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