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State Briefs
Teacher jailed on
child-porn charges
SAVANNAH (MNS) - A
Savannah private school
teacher was in jail Tuesday on
federal charges of attempted
sexual exploitation of chil
dren and attempted receipt
of child pornography.
Earlier Tuesday, the FBI
arrested Joshua Henry
Evans, a music teacher at
St. Andrew’s School.
FBI agents said to their
knowledge no students at
the Wilmington Island paro
chial school and no local
children are victims.
“We have no evidence to
date that indicates anyone
was harmed or that he con
ducted the criminal activity
for which he’s been charged
while at the school,” said
William Kirkconnell, super
visory senior resident agent
for the FBI in Savannah.
Evans, 25, has taught
music at St. Andrew’s for two
years, said E.C. Hubbard,
the school’s headmaster.
“He’s been a model teach
er. There never was any indi
cation of behavior or charac
ter issues with Mr. Evans,”
Hubbard said Tuesday night.
“He really is a fine teacher.”
Hubbard said he learned
about the arrest Tuesday
afternoon and was shocked.
The Georgia Bureau of
Investigation began check
ing out Evans out several
weeks ago and then contact
ed the FBI, Kirkconnell said.
The two agencies launched
a joint investigation, which
concluded Tuesday with a
search of Evans’ home in
Pooler by agents from the
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, the FBI, the
GBI and the Pooler Police
Department.
Evans was arrested at his
Silver Brook Circle home
after the search.
U.S. Magistrate Judge
G.R. Smith ordered Evans
held without bond Tuesday
night, pending the outcome
of his arraignment. He is
scheduled to appear in U.S.
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District Court this morning.
Hubbard said the school
conducts rigorous back
ground checks on all of its
employees and did not find
anything suspicious dur
ing Evans’ review. Hubbard
said he plans to review those
employment practices if
Evans is found guilty.
As of Tuesday, Evans
was still employed at St.
Andrew’s. Hubbard said he
was not sure whether Evans
would remain at the school
while awaiting prosecution.
“We have never had a sit
uation like this,” Hubbard
said. “Clearly, he will not
teach here if these charges
are true.”
St. Andrew’s, located on
Penn Waller Road, has an
enrollment of about 400 stu
dents in pre-kindergarten
through 12th grade.
Ga. Port Authority
posts strong year
SAVANNAH (MNS) - The
Georgia Ports Authority says
it handled more than 2.3
million 20-foot containers in
the year that ended June 30
and set a new record for con
tainers moved through its
Garden City Terminal.
That’s up 14.5 percent
from the previous year and
further cements the port of
Savannah’s status as the
nation’s fourth-busiest and
fastest-growing container
terminal.
GPA also set a record
for total tonnage at all its
terminal facilities, includ
ing Bainbridge, Brunswick,
Columbus and Savannah,
surpassing 21 million tons
for an 8.7 percent increase.
“Georgia’s ports are play
ing an increasingly vital
role in our overall economic
growth strategy,” Gov. Sonny
Perdue said Monday.
“The growth of our ports
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is helping to fuel our trans
portation and logistics
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ic opportunities throughout
Georgia.”
The number of 20-foot
containers handled in the
past five years has increased
55 percent - up from 1.5 mil
lion in the year that ended
June 30, 2003.
“These record-setting ton
nage and container totals
are the main reasons why
the ports contribute so sig
nificantly to our economy,”
said former U.S. Sen. Mack
Mattingly, R-Ga., whose ten
ure as Georgia Port’s board
chairman ended in June.
“The completion of the
harbor deepening project
in Brunswick and the com
mencement of the project
in Savannah will ensure the
future success of interna
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Mattingly said.
At Perdue’s request,
Mattingly has agreed to stay
involved with Georgia Ports
and work to ensure the
completion of the Savannah
Harbor deepening project.
The port of Brunswick
also experienced significant
gains, said incoming GPA
board chairman Stephen S.
Green. That port’s Colonel’s
Island facility handled a
record 1.2 million tons, up
10 percent from the previ
ous year, he said.
Gains were especially dra
matic in bulk commodities
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with 438,671 tons moving
through the facility, a 41.1
percent increase from the
previous year.
“Our 10-year strategic
plan was developed in part
to address the record growth
of international trade in
Georgia,” said Green. “As we
continue to move forward
with our $1.2 billion capi
tal investment program at
Georgia’s ports, the results
of these investments are
already beginning to be felt
throughout the region.”
GPA is on track to more
than double the number of
automobiles handled at the
port of Brunswick and triple
its container capacity at the
port of Savannah, he said.
Georgia continues to
increase container business
faster than any other state
in the nation, said GPA
Executive Director Doug J.
Marchand.
“This,” Marchand said,
“is the result of strate
gic marketing, aggressive
expansion and significant
market share increases in
places like India, South and
Northeast Asia, Europe and
the Mediterranean, further
diversifying our portfolio of
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Camden may seize
sheriffs drug money
WOODBINE (MNS) - A
Camden County commis
sioner critical of Sheriff Bill
Smith said Tuesday he plans
to ask fellow commissioners
next week to wrest control
of seized drug money from
Smith in light of questions
about expenditures by the
sheriff.
Other commissioners took
a wait-and-see attitude.
Meanwhile, Smith dis
puted and defended using
confiscated drug money to
pay jailed criminals the past
three years and told the
Times-Union reports about
his spending and use of
inmate labor are politically
motivated.
The newspaper reported
Friday that the sheriff used
the drug money, returned to
the county each year by fed
eral authorities, to pay jail
inmates thousands of dollars
in 2006 and 2004 and that
county auditors questioned
another $23,000 in expendi
tures from the shared asset
accounts last year. They
included a $5,000 donation
to a nonprofit spinal cord
center in Atlanta and $2,500
to reimburse a sheriffs office
employee for getting a nurs
ing license.
The money is supposed
to be used for law enforce
ment purposes such as train
ing, investigations, equip
ment and drug awareness,
according to U.S. Treasury
Department guidelines.
Itemized ledger sheets
from 2005, which weren’t
previously available, showed
similar SSO-a-week pay
ments to inmates, including
convicted methamphetamine
maker William D. Murrell,
who was paid $6,350 from
the asset accounts from 2004
to 2006. Murrell, the top
inmate recipient, was in the
Camden County jail nearly
two years after his convic
tion before Smith trans
ferred him to state prison.
The records show Murrell
was paid every week from
July 2004 through June
2006.
Smith said he paid Murrell
as a mechanic, though he
disputed how much.
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said.
The financial records
were attached to auditors’
reports that were obtained
from county officials by
the Times-Union under
Georgia’s Open Records Act.
Smith said his own account
ing of the money differs from
those reports, but he refused
a Times-Union open records
request to view his records,
saying it could compromise
pending criminal investiga
tions.
“That’s typical of the sher
iff. He disputes the figures
that come from the auditors
he hired, ” said Commissioner
Steve Berry.
Berry said he will propose
at Tuesday night’s County
Commission meeting that
control of the seized asset
accounts be transferred
from Smith to the commis
sioners.
Berry said witnesses told
him that Murrell and other
inmates were paid to work
on property owned by the
sheriff.
“How is that looking
after the people of Camden
County?” Berry asked.
“Inmate labor has a place
in this county. Our sheriff
uses it as his personal labor
force.”
Commissioners Preston
Rhodes and David Rainer
said they were keeping an
open mind on the issue.
Smith said the reports
about his expenditures and
use of inmate labor are polit
ically motivated. He said he
went through similar criti
cism in the 90s that eventu
ally was dismissed.
Maj. James Proctor,
administrator of the county
jail, agreed and noted in an
e-mail to the Times-Union
that Berry’s secretary is mar
ried to Tommy Gregory, who
has announced he is running
for sheriff next year.
Berry denied any political
motivation.
“It matters not to me
who’s sheriff,” he said. “I
just want the sheriff to be
honest.”
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