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BELOW THE FOLD: Scholarship created in memory of NS grad Benefit to aid injured officer INSIDE: Three charged in copper thefts
Weekend
August 1M3,2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
WHERE'NOGHBORS\*tELT
IN BRIEF
Little Leaguers need
help to defray costs
The Warner Robins American
Little League will take any help it
can get to help defray the costs
of sending the 11-12-year-old
Southeast Region champions to the
Little League World Series.
If you would like to help, contact
WRALL President Roman Jones at
romanßl3@juno.com.
Football scrimmage
dates, teams set
Perry High School football coach
Andy Scott announced Thursday
that the preseason scrimmage
against Northside High School
has been moved from McConnell-
Talbert Stadium in Warner Robins
to Herb St. John Stadium at Perry
High. The game still takes place
on Friday, Aug. 17, with kickoff at
7:30 p.m.
Warner Robins High School has
its scrimmage game on Thursday,
Aug. 16, at Peach County High
School in Ft. Valley. Houston County
High also hits the road for its scrim
mage on Aug. 17 to play Jones
County High in Gray.
Genealogical Society
to meet Thursday
The Central Georgia Genealogical
Society, Inc. will meet Thursday at 7
p.m. at Flint EMC, 1600 Elberta Rd.,
in Warner Robins. Per a release:
Visitors are welcome and there is no
admission fee.
For more information, visit www.
cggs.org.
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Robbery turns out to be inside job
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
There was no armed rob
bery of the Winn Dixie on
July 29, as initially reported,
explained District Attorney
Kelly Burke.
“It was an inside job that
was concocted to disguise
a theft by a cashier and to
make it look like an armed
robbery,” Burke said.
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Officers of the Warner Robins Police Department had Westbound Watson Boulevard shut down and redirected at Margie Drive and Tom Chapman
Drive Thursday afternoon after a truck lost a trailer load of lumber at the intersection of Watson Boulevard and U.S. 41. Officers as well as employ
ees from Warner Robins Wrecker and Warner Robins Supply were loading up the lumber to clear the intersection. “The load was on its way to
Warner Robins Supply explained Officer Tim Pippio, “they sent out a crew to help clean up.” Pippio said Annette Mumphry of Cordele was driving
the 2002 Freightliner pulling the flatbed trailer eastbound on Watson. She reportedly ran the red light making a left turn onto U.S. 4tand hit a GMC
Sierra driven by Delmar Lynn of Fort Valley who had the green light on U.S 41. Neither driver was seriously injured and no one was taken to the
hospital, Pippio said. Mumphy, driving the truck for her father’s Mumphry Unlimited, claimed her brakes didn’t work, Pippio said, “but they work
now,” he added. She was cited for driving too fast for conditions and running the red light and given a warning for some other traffic violations.
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Scholarship created in memory of Northside grad
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
Jerome Stephens has been
thinking about his son “Jay Jay”
a lot lately.
“His favorite player was Barry
Bonds,” Stephens says of the son
he lost three years ago.
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the alleged gunman in the
recent armed robbery at
Winn Dixie, pleaded guilty
Thursday morning to party
to the crime of theft by tak
ing by a fiduciary. He was
sentenced to 10 years, two to
serve in a probation deten
tion center.
Probation detention center
sentences do not have early
release, Burke said. Spencer
also was fined SI,OOO and
has special conditions that
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"Absolutely an absurd case. What this
yeung man was thinking Is a mystery to
me. He actually confessed to an armed
robbery, which could have netted him 10
years in prison without parole.”
- District Attorney Kelly Burke
he commit no crimes of theft probation.
or violence once he is on Spencer’s associates are
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both in the Houston County
Detention Center awaiting a
court date for their parts in
the incident.
“Absolutely, an absurd
case,” Burke said. “What
this young man was think
ing is a mystery to me. He
actually confessed to an
armed robbery, which could
have netted him 10 years in
prison without parole.”
He had confessed to
See INSIDE, page SA
Benefit to help
injured officer
By RATLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A benefit barbecue for
an iryured Warner Robins
Police officer is planned for
this Saturday.
Rescheduled from July 21,
the benefit was organized
by Rae Evans the event to
help her father’s co-worker.
The benefit barbecue will
help defray some of the costs
incurred by Warner Robins
Police officer Jeff Herb, who
was iryured while on duty
and in a fight with a suspect
in June.
Herb has had one sur
gery for a broken leg and
will probably have to have
another, said Rae Evans,
who has organized previ
ous benefits for iryured
officers. Her father Randy
Evans is a member of the
See BENEFIT, page yA