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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
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Pony, GA 31069
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State Briefs
Fake pregnancy
deceives town
KINGSLAND (MNS)
- Clarissa Linnabary’s preg
nancy seemed like a fairy
tale waiting for an ending.
Sure, there were things
like the morning sickness
and the worries about how
she and her Marine husband
would support the quadru
plets coming in June.
But there was the excite
ment of preparing for the
two boys and two girls pic
tured in the ultrasound she
would sometimes show.
The ending never came,
though, and police now say
the fairy tale pregnancy was
a fabrication.
A due date turned into
days past turned into weeks
late. People started ask
ing questions about the St.
Marys woman who had col
lected thousands of dollars
worth of donated items.
Linnabary, known to most
as Chrisie, was charged July
24 with theft by deception.
She has been released on
$3,550 bail.
Authorities started an
investigation after offi
cials at Kings Bay Naval
Submarine Base -- where
her husband, Lance Cpl.
Vernon Linnabary, is a
Marine armorer received
an anonymous e-mail “rais
ing questions and concerns
about the pregnancy,” said
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to express our,
/ thanks to each of you ‘
' for all your kindness (
you have shown us
during these time of (
, bereavement. All that
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> May God Bless You. .
■* i The Lester family^
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Ed Buczek, a base public
affairs officer.
Her husband has not been
charged. Buczek said he
apparently believed his wife
was pregnant until being
contacted by investigators
with the Naval Criminal
Investigative Service and the
Camden County Sheriffs
Office.
Linnabary had been
accepting gifts, discounts
and donations from Navy
and Marine Corps fami
lies, businesses and friends,
according to the Sheriffs
Office. A phone number
where the Times-Union
reached the Linnabarys sev
eral months ago was dis
connected Monday and the
couple had no other listed
numbers.
In an interview with the
Times-Union in early May,
Chrisie Linnabary said she
was 22 weeks’ pregnant
and had a twin sister liv
ing in Texas who was preg
nant with triplets. She said
it was stressful expecting
four babies and not having
the wherewithal to buy baby
seats, cribs, clothes and
a vehicle large enough to
accommodate her expected
babies.
Linnabary talked about
how she and her husband
had already selected names
for the babies and comment
ed on how she was surprised
the pregnancy wasn’t show
ing more.
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Naval Criminal
Investigative Service special
agent Brandon McKinnon
said his agency is trying to
determine how many people
donated items or money to
help the couple prepare for
the birth of four children.
“We’re still trying to track
down all the information
regarding this,” he said. “We
want to know how many
people were affected.”
Lucy Sigler, manager of
Miss Lucy’s consignment
shop in Kingsland, said
she was disappointed after
investigators questioned her
about donations she had
made.
“I was floored by it all,”
she said of the criminal
charge. “I wanted to help
them.”
Suspect's brother
shot, charged
AUGUSTA (MNS) - Police
say the brother of a man
charged this month in a
nightclub shooting was shot
Monday morning by an
Augusta merchant who said
he caught the teen burglar
izing his store.
Derrell Lamar McNair,
14, is charged with armed
robbery, aggravated assault
and burglary, according to
Richmond County sher
iffs Investigator Brandon
Beckman.
McNair’s older brother,
Darion Antonio McNair, has
been charged with murder
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in the July 9 shooting at
Club Super C’s Lounge on
Tobacco Road, and remains
in jail.
Police said Raheim Michael
Badger, the owner of the
F.A.M.E. clothing store on
Wrightsboro Road, told them
he -was spending the night in
the store because of recent
burglaries.
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AUDREY M. PQLESHUK
PERRY - Audrey M. Poleshuk, 81, died Sunday at
Serenity Gate in Perry. Funeral services will be held at 11
a.m. today at Perry Presbyterian Church with entombment
in Perry Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. Visitation will be
from 10-11 a.m. prior to the service. Mrs. Poleshuk, a native
of Yonkers, New York, and the daughter of the late Thomas
Mary McGuire Fenaughty, had lived in Perry for 11 years,
moving from Webster, New York. She was a member of the
Perry Presbyterian Church. Survivors include her husband,
Michael Poleshuk of Perry; son, Michael G. Poleshuk (Kim) of
Perry; sister, Veronica Amato of St. James, New York; grand
children, Kristopher Arnold and Kacie Arnold, both of Macon.
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Changes in environment
chase off fireflies
By Rob Pavey
Morris News Service
As children, we chased
them at dusk through yards
and meadows to admire their
enchanting glow.
Today, fireflies are far less
common than in years past,
and scientists are puzzled as
to why.
“I remember one time,
and it was years ago, when
we were out in the swamp,
and there were literally
thousands of them, blink
ing everywhere,” said Dr.
Whit Gibbons, a research
ecologist at Savannah River
Ecology Lab.
Such sights are less com
mon today, although the
blinking beetles are still a
staple of childhood. “My
grandchildren love to go out
and catch them, even now,”
Gibbons said.
Where have all the fireflies
gone?
James E. Lloyd, a retired
University of Florida pro
fessor and entomologist,
believes the impacts of devel
opment have hastened the
decline of a remarkable and
fascinating part of nature.
“Even though we don’t
have hard data that says
they are disappearing, we
know they are,” Dr. Lloyd
said.
“The fireflies most people
see are the three or four
most common species that
can put up with what man
has done,” he said. “But
even these are dying off, and
the ones that were rare to
start with are going to disap
pear.”
The suspects, he said,
include pesticides, ambient
light, man-made changes
in soil composition and the
elimination of damp areas
where fireflies breed.
“Look at all the light we
put in the environment,,
even car headlights,” he
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said. “And we have poisons
in the air, runoff from fertil
izers, and we humans take
up more and more property
and cause erosion of the soil,
which is where their larvae
live.”
In his four decades of spy
ing on fireflies, Dr. Lloyd has
learned many secrets that
only deepen his fascination
and respect for them.
The blinking light, created
by the oxidation of a chemi
cal in the beetle’s abdomen,
is a mating sign used by fly
ing males to locate females
on the ground, which
respond with their own light.
Different species have differ
ent blinking sequences that
are similar to Morse code.
“What’s interesting is, a
lot of the females in some
groups give the answer
ing signal to males of other
species,” he said. “If those
males come in, the females
will attack and eat them.”
Such behavior, he said, has
probably been fine-tuned
over millions of years. “You
can see, from an evolution
ary standpoint, there has
been strong natural selec
tion in firefly behavior to
avoid leaving your light on
too long.”
Although fireflies are
becoming harder to find in
suburban areas, Dr. Gibbons
said that’s not the best place
to look for them, anyway.
“If you’re out there under
a streetlight, you might see
a few, but you won’t see
many,” he said. “You need tG
get out there where it’s dark
- really dark.”
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