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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 July 13 ■ Jeffrey T. Scruggs July 19 ■ Kelly S. Scruggs July 21 ■ Jamie White July 22 ■ Misty Little Today ■ Etien Lowe ■ Tommy Brown 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. PERIODICAL 500 815 51 m , Award-Winning Newspaper 2004 Better Newspaper Contest COOI * GECRG'.A NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UN IV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 306C2-0C KQ. 3-DIGIT 306 July 24, 2007 \StmmeWamrKCn'snnjm Today Isolated thunderstorms High: 90 Low: 67 Weather hhjnews.com Organic isn’t always healthier Web 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 pNfIHP x*'. t *4,' \SyL . L \ • Jouraal/Ray Lightner 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 LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville Potter mania breaks out around Houston EA County Urt 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 www.hhjnews.com MB r ***.... f ' ? WlHi. Journal Kay Lightner A tree limb crashed through the roof of Unit 1 at Shady Rest Apartments on Second Sheet Friday afternoon. SPORTS: Peanuts power past Music. Also, cross country results, goH tourney "7 A previews. More, #ft 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 One section * 10 pages } 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 ■ (.v r:\i\s / \iniY Xru s/m/7 T^j TOLBERT JR.