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PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1861 WE HONOR OUR VETERANS SPECIAL SECTION » INSIDE ("bwww.msgrnews.com (11) fatonton dessenuer X ’ x - Official organ of Putnam County and City of Eatonton V . Locally Owned by Smith Communications Inc. 4 OCELLE See 9 ** VOLUME 164 • NO. 45 County and City of Eatonton THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025 Woman arrested for pointing gun at deputy Lynn Hobbs lynn@msgrnews.com Around 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 30, Putnam County Sheriff’s Sgt. Jim Barbee thought he was responding to a routine complaint call to remove a tres passer. But upon his arrival, instead of a trespasser, he found a loaded handgun pointed at him. And the gun wasn’t in the hands of a trespasser, it was the complainant. Barbee said the call was made by a resident on the 100 block of Bradley Road who said he wasn’t home at the time, but his girlfriend called him and said she could smell cigarette smoke and heard people on their property and told him to call police. As he drove along the Amber N. McDade property looking for the trespassers, but didn’t see anyone. When Barbee got to the house, he got out of his patrol vehicle and still didn’t see anyone. As he walked toward the front porch, someone yelled at him. driveway toward the house, Barbee said he scanned the “Somebody hollered out, ‘Hold it, stop right there and put up your hands,”’ Barbee described to The Eatonton Messenger reporter. “I looked at all the windows and doorway and still didn’t see anybody,” he continued. “And then I looked up and saw a head poked over the peak of the roof and she had a pistol pointed at me.” Barbee identified himself as a Putnam County Sheriffs Office deputy and told the woman, later identified as Amber McDade, that he was there for a trespass complaint and she needed to put down the gun. McDade did not put down the Kimber 9mm pistol she was pointing at him, and continued to ask him who he was and why he was there. Noting that he was wearing his sheriffs deputy uniform and had arrived in his patrol vehicle marked with Putnam County Sheriffs Office on the side, Barbee said he identified himself several more times, told her why he was MORE MCDADE >> A2 IAN TOCHER/Staff L-R: Former Georgia State Patrol officer and Governor's Security Detail member Alan Hardwick, Better Business Bureau Vice President Jason Blankenship, E-PCOC President Robbie King, and Dr. John Wheeler of Pathfinders Counseling Service. Awareness at heart of beating modern personal threats Ian Tocher ian@msgrnews.com As part of its Business Break- fast Series, the Eatonton-Putnam Chamber of Commerce (E-PCOC) presented a commu nity safety forum Oct. 28 at the county commission building, featuring a fraud prevention expert, a former state trooper, and a local trauma counselor. Each delivered a unique but ultimately unified message suggesting that living in a world of digital deception, physical danger, and emotional overload requires awareness, preparation, and self-care instincts as healthy defenses. Introduced by E-PCOC President Robbie King, Beller — MORE THREATS » A2 Putnam man charged for creating child pornography Lynn Hobbs 0 lynn@msgrnews.com X State and local authorities have arrested a Putnam County man on charges related Corey A to creating child Hickey' pornography. According to Putnam County jail reports, Corey Andrew Hickey, 38, of the Twin Bridges Road area, is in Putnam County jail facing felony charges including two counts of “create or possess with intent to distribute or sell visual medium depicting a minor in sexu ally explicit act,” and one count of “employ/use a minor to engage in/ assist person in sexually explicit conduct for visual medium.” Bond was set at $60,000, but Hickey remained jailed at the newspaper’s press time Tuesday. The Georgia Bureau of Inves tigation’s “Child Exploitation and Computer Crimes (CEACC) Unit began an investigation into Hick ey’s online activity after receiving a Cyber Tipline Report from the MORE HICKEY » A3 Sheriff’s office investigates rocks thrown at vehicles Lynn Hobbs Iynn@msgrnews.com Putnam County Sheriffs Office detectives are inves tigating several incidents of vehicles damaged by rocks thrown and a log left in the lane of traffic. Five different vehicles were damaged while traveling Monticello Road between 10 and 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25, according to PCSO Chief of Staff Russell Blenk. Four of the incidents involved rocks being thrown from the side of the road under the cover of darkness. Blenk said the person was throwing the rocks from both sides of the road at vehicles heading both eastbound and westbound, striking and shattering the windshield on some of them, and damaging the sides of the others. “That could’ve killed somebody,” Blenk said as he watched one of the vehicle’s dashcam video revealing a person throwing the rock and shattering the windshield on the driver’s side. “It’s a terroristic act to do this,” he added and read aloud O.C.G.A. 16-11-37, “A person commits the offense of a MORE ROCKS » A2 0 94922 87854 WEATHER HIGH Thursday Sunny 46 LOW Detailed forecast / B6 For breaking news or to subscribe, visit |www.msgmews.com] or call 706-485-3501 SMITH COMMUNICATIONS1 Newspapers • Magazines • Printing Gators advance past Heritage » PAGE Bl INSIDE THIS WEEK Classifieds C8 Public Record A7 Community C1 Opinions A4 Crossword Puzzle C5 Obituaries A6 Legal Notices D5 Sports B1 LAKE OCONEE DENTISTRY Dr David Bradley Dr Patti Bradley & Associates OCALLY OWNED & OPERATE SINCE 19 LAKE OCONEE’S DENTIST Great fun Halloween night. 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