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VOLUME LXXXVI, NUMBER 45
Commission
wants
accounting
of drug task
force funds
By Jim Riley
Staff Writer
The Forsyth County
Commission postponed mak
ing any decision on the fund
ing of a Special Operations
Group for the Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Dept, until they
have an accounting of how
confiscated federal drug
monies were spent by the
county’s drug task force.
At the commission’s
workshop meeting on
Monday night, Forsyth
County Sheriff Jerry Padgett
and Captain David Bennett,
head of the multi-jurisdic
tional drug task force, came
before the Board to request
funding for the Drug Task
Force. The federal grant that
was used to fund the task
force that included the City
of Jasper, and Pickens
County will expire June 30.
Sheriff Padgett said the
duties of the individuals in
Forsyth County who are cur
rently working for the Drug
Task Force would be expand
ed under the new plan.
The officers would be
used as both a hostage and
fugitive squad, with most of
their duties remaining in drug
enforcement. Padgett also
wants to rename the unit the
“Special Operations Group.”
When the federal grant
money runs out at the end of
June, the Special Operations
See TASK, Page 2A
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INDEX
Abby 9A Events 4A
Deaths 3A Legate 96
School 5A Horoscope 9A
Classifieds 68 News 14A
Editorial I2A Sports IB
COMING SUNDAY... ~
Michael Thurmond
addresses youth council
Michael Thurmond, director of the
state's Dept, of Family and
Children's Services addressed the
Forsyth County Youth Council on
Tuesday. Find out what, he has to
say about family and children s ser
vices in the state and county.
Board of Education to
meet
The Forsyth County Board of Education
will meet at 6 p.m. at the Central office
on School Street on Thursday night
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Man arrested for
allegedly operating
home “chop shop”
By Jim Riley
Staff Writer
Forsyth County Sheriff’s
Department officials, along with
Baldwin County officials recov
ered three Jet Skis, valued at over
$15,000 in a Friday morning raid
of a Forsyth County home
believed to be operating as a
“chop shop”.
Officials, armed with a search
warrant, searched the home at
6640 Turner Cove Rd. in northern
Forsyth County.
Later arrested and charged was
Richard David Mosrie, 28. He
was charged with 4 counts of theft
by receiving, and 3 counts of pos
session of a motor vehicle with
altered Vehicle Identification
Numbers. Mosrie was released on
bond pending his court date.
According to the Sheriff’s
Department, the warrant was
taken after an individual allegedly
purchased a jet ski from the
accused, and it was discovered to
have been stolen. The search
recovered three additional jet skis
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with an estimated value of
$15,000 plus various parts and
tools.
Two of the jet skis were
allegedly stolen and possessed
altered VIN numbers. The third is
believed to be stolen, but did not
possess an altered VIN number.
According to Captain David
Waters of the Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Office Investigations
Division, it is believed that this
“chop shop” has been operating
at this address at least as far back
as August,l994.
Waters said it is possible that
several stolen jet skis have been
altered and sold from this loca
tion.
The incident is still under
investigation by both jurisdic
tions.
Sheriff Jerry Padgett stated
that “the problem (chop shops) is
not as bad as it was in the past. As
long as we keep taking them out
of business, it will get better and
better.”
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Over 400 Forsyth County
seniors graduated in cere
monies here over the week
end. At top, North Forsyth
High School graduated its
first class. At left, Forsyth
Central grads Julie Patty
and Joda Browning walk
down the long aisle. At top
right, South Forsyth grads
give the cermonial throw of
the caps as they exit
Lanierland Music Park.
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Forsyth County Sgt. David Tate, and investigators Billy Burruss and Bill Miller examine
one of the Jet Skis found at the Turner Cove Road residence.
Summer school registration is Thursday at NFHS
North Forsyth High School
will be having its Summer School
registration on Thursday, June 8,
1995 from 8:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. at
the school. School will actually
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PAGE 14A
County asking city
for arbitration in
LOST negotiations
By Jim Riley
Staff Writer
The Forsyth County
Commission says it believes there
is a provision in the law asking
for a re-negotiation of the local
option sales tax (LOST) funds
that would give them the ability to
appoint an arbitrator to settle the
dispute between the city and
county.
In a Monday night workses
sion, commission chairman Ron
Seder told the board that the state
law says that if no decision can be
reached by the governments, non
binding arbitration may be used to
facilitate a decision.
After a discussion of the arbi
tration question, Commissioner
John Kieffer made a motion to
Commission questions
controversial library
materials at forum
By Beth Faw
Staff Writer
The Forsyth County Board of
Commissioners postponed the
adoption of the FY 96 library
budget after hearing a concern
about controversial material in the
local library during a public
forum Monday night.
During the forum, Betty
Wheeler presented the board with
some of the literature found in the
library and asked them to review
it before making any decisions on
funding the library.
“I’m very much concerned
with what our children can check
out of the library,” Wheeler said.
begin on Monday, June 12 and last
until Thursday, July 13 for high
school students only. There are
two sessions, the first beginning at
7:30-11:00 a.m. and the second
send a letter to the City of
Cumming to try and start the arbi
tration process by June 9, in order
to be able to reach a decision by
the July 1 state deadline.
The board also voted unani
mously to set a deadline on the
offer made to the city at the coun
ty’s May 22 meeting to keep the
LOST split the same with the city
receiving 12 percent and the
county receiving 88 percent.
Kieffer originally made the
motion to set the deadline on the
county’s offer for June 12.
Commissioner James Harrington
then offered an amendment to the
motion to move the deadline to
See LOST, Page 2A
“In color, pornographic material
is available to them and I would
like for you to hold off any dis
cussion on the library budget until
after the June 12 library board
meeting. They are planning to dis
cuss this issue then.”
Wheeler also said that they are
not asking for any materials to be
removed from the library, but they
would like the controversial mate
rials to be placed in a restricted
area.
Commissioner James
Harrington made a motion to
postpone any decisions on the
See LIBRARY, Page 2A
beginning at 12:00-3:30 p.m.
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