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Accusations piling np for running back King
By JACOB DEMMITT
The Red & Bwck
It’s never a good season when
you’ve had more petitions for
arrest warrants in one year than
touchdowns. But for Georgia
running back Caleb King, it’s just
been that kind of year.
Having already dealt with
accusations of influencing a wit
ness, King's Monday morning
Fake ID
charges
cost time,
money
By CAREY O’NEIL
The Red & Black
Editor's Note: This week,
The Red & Black investi
gates fake ID use at the
University. Check back
Wednesday for a look at
how students get fake IDs.
Getting out of jail: $250
Probation-related fees:
S4BO
Cost of a lawyer: $2,000
Barred from downtown
for six months: well, that’ll
probably save money. But
getting arrested for fake ID
possession could easily
cost upwards of $2,750.
And that’s a conserva
tive estimate. Depending
on the months of probation
assigned and any other
charges usually racked up
along with possession of a
fake ID, such as underage
possession of alcohol, costs
can shoot even higher.
Worst-case scenario
an additional SI,OOO fine
and a year in jail for a fake
ID charge alone.
“Of course, that’s the
maximum penalty, and I’ve
never seen any judge
impose the maximum pen
alty for something like
that,” explained local attor
ney Charles Jones Jr.
Jones said most all of
his clients are facing public
intoxication or underage
possession cases, so he is
no stranger to fake ID
charges charges he said
rarely stick.
“I don't think I’ve ever
had to take a case to trial
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arrest was just an exclamation
tacked onto the end of what had
already been a rough start to the
2010 season.
His legal troubles began after
a 23-year-old woman accused
King of threatening to post “nude
pictures and video” of her on the
Internet, according to an Athens-
Clarke County Police report.
The woman claimed she had
lent King SSOO on March 6 in
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Residents speak of shootings, gangs
By JACOB DEMMITT
The Red & Buck
Editor's Note: Last year, The Red & Black
began compiling crime data to create an
online crime map. For this semester-long
Tuesday series we took that crime data
and found 10 of the most crime-ridden
residential streets in Athens-Clarke
County. With Jan. 1, 2010 as our starting
date, we tallied the crimes on the streets
of the University’s home county to create
our list. We continue with Sycamore
Drive.
A Sycamore Drive resident may have
put it best when he used two sim
ple words to describe the street he
has called home for more than a year
—“it sucks.”
The resident, who asked to be identi
fied as John, told Red & Black reporters,
“Y'all go in there and you’ll see. There’s a
couple of crack houses in there, a lot of
riff raff, a lot of break-ins. One of my
friends got broken into earlier today. I
know what goes on. I'm almost 60 years
old. I’m not a dummy."
The street has hosted 45 reported
crimes since January, including 16 bur
glaries, 11 theft-related cases, nine bat
teries, six assaults, two armed robberies,
one simple assault and one terroristic
threat.
Sycamore Drive is located about two
miles away from campus and is surround
ed by many student housing apartments.
Rachel Hicks, a University student
who has lived in a nearby neighborhood
with her husband for more than two
years, said she has noticed more and
more students moving into the area.
“It’s mostly lower-income families,”
she said, “but since August, I’ve noticed
more students moving in. We feel safe
and haven’t fallen victim to any crimes
though.”
However, a three-year Sycamore Drive
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order to pay bills.
When she attempted to recu
perate the loan in April, “King
told [the] victim that he was not
going to repay the money, and if
she continued bothering him
about it, then he would post
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Resident D’Angello, 20, has lived on Sycamore Drive for 10 months.
He said he plans to move because he is unsatisfied with his apartment.
resident who asked to be identified as
Sissy said she has witnessed many crimes
in the area first hand.
“I've seen shit in here,” she said. “When
I first moved in, a guy in Q 5 got shot in
the head and killed while playing cards...
Once, they found a newborn baby in a
washing machine in the Laundromat.
[The mother] didn’t want her parents to
Photos, documents, video and crime timeline online.
Student finds comfort with ‘coming out’
Best friend
first to know
By PAIGE VARNER
The Red & Black
Coming out as a lesbian was
an hours-long ordeal for
Amanda Brandino.
At 15 years old, Brandino
told her best friend she had a
secret. After about three hours
of sidestepping, that friend
became the first person
Brandino told she was gay.
“She was sort of shocked.
She almost didn’t believe me,”
said Brandino, now 20. “She
was more relieved that I Anally
spit it out.”
Brandlno’s story comes on
the heels of Monday’s National
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victim on the [llnternet,” accord
ing to the report.
The woman told police she
contacted King again on April 27
and informed him that she
planned to take legal action if
she was not paid. According to
the report, King responded by
again threatening to post nude
pictures and video of her on the
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know she had a baby.”
In 2007, the Athens Banner-Herald
reported Sycamore Drive was the center
of a newly formed street gang which went
by the name of “Westside Bloods.”
According to a 2007 Athens-Clarke
County police report, a teenage male was
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Coming Out Day. an annual
time for the lesbian, gay, bisex
ual and transgender communi
ty to publicly identify them
selves. often by wearing gay
pride symbols or sharing their
own stories.
Brandino, a junior psycholo
gy and communication science
and disorders double-major
from Alpharetta, said she was
afraid of how other girls at
Milton High School would treat
her If they knew she was a les
bian.
But as Brandino confided in
more friends, others she hadn’t
told began talking about their
gay classmate.
She asked three people not
to talk about It anymore, but
eventually she couldn’t keep up
with everyone who knew.
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hand,” she said.
Even as friends stopped
inviting Brandino to sleepovers
and she had her first girlfriend,
Brandino still had not told her
parents she was gay.
Her parents suspected it
after Brandino and her girl
friend had been spending a lot
of time together, she said.
But when Brandino admit
ted to her parents she was gay,
she wasn’t ready. Her dad Initi
ated the conversation.
Brandlno’s dad walked up to
her, hugged her and said, “I’U
love you no matter what,”
Brandino recalled.
Brandino said she began cry
ing hysterically, saying, “I didn’t
want you to know.”
She said her mom who is
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Caleb King
was placed
under arrest
for failing to
appear in
court after
he received
a speeding
ticket.