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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017
THE JACKSON HERALD
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Jefferson PD
One arrested after chase, flees on foot
A Jefferson man was charged with several violations
July 30 after a car and foot chase in the early morning
hours of July 30.
Dakota Calvin Waller. 20. 1231 Hog Mountain Road,
was charged with speeding; fleeing a police officer;
failure to stop at a stop sign; reckless conduct; reckless
driving; and improper starting - laying drags.
Waller made a U-turn on Highway 129 bypass at Hold
ers Siding Road, “causing his taillights to sway back and
forth as the vehicle lay drag.”
The car failed to stop after an officer turned on his
emergency equipment.
The car “reached speeds of up to 85 mph and would
weave over the roadway,” the officer said.
The driver failed to stop at signs at the intersections of
Hog Mountain Road and Storey Lane and Hog Mountain
and Jett Roberts Road.
The car turned onto Georgia Highway 82 and the dep
uty stopped the pursuit.
He was meeting with other officers at a store and saw
the car go by. It again fled, going 80 mph, on Highway
82, the officer said.
State troopers and Jefferson officers also were involved
in the chase.
As the car went toward Interstate 85, a state trooper
caused it to “spin out and lose control at it attempted to
make a left turn” onto the interstate ramp.
“The suspect traveled in reverse down the embankment
and onto 1-85 northbound,” the officer reported.
Commerce Police Department officers tried to set up
a spike strip to stop the car. It did not work. The car left
1-85 at exit 147.
CPD stopped the pursuit and the driver fled on foot.
Three passengers in the car identified Waller as the driver.
Waller turned himself in about 6:20 p.m. July 30.
ARRESTS
Arrests made by the Jefferson Police Department
recently include:
•Jimmie M. Johnson, 18,125 Pleasant Court, Maysville
- held on a Gainesville Police Department warrant. She
also was cited for a canceled registration and driving on
a suspended license.
•Keith Young. 55, 1214 Washington St., Jefferson -
held on a Clarke County warrant for probation violation.
•Mark Wayne Byfus, 42, 549 Danielsville St.. Apt. 21,
Jefferson - DUI-alcohol and hit and run/failure to stop
and render aid.
•Cheryl Skipper Webb, 59, 2752 Demorest-Mount Airy
Hwy., Demorest - held on a Hall County warrant for
larceny.
• Serena Principal Smith, 30. 114 Bellingrath Dr.,
Winder - held on a Hall County warrant.
•Todd Lee Holder. 40, 2233 Greeson Road NE. Statham
- held on a warrant from Banks County.
•Monica Leann King. 33, 2233 Greeson Road NE,
Statham - held on a warrant from Banks County.
•Rodriguez T. Hendricks, 35, 704 Walton Road, Mon
roe - held on a JPD warrant for probation violation on a
charge of driving on a suspended license.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported to the JPD recently include:
•a man said his guns were not moved when he separat
ed from his girlfriend, but she said she put the guns “out
by the moving trailer.” He said the movers told him the
guns were in the house when they left.
•an employee of Chevron said a man and woman got
in a fight in the store and broke five bottles of wine. The
wine was worth $37.
•a woman on Hickory Hills Drive said a neighbor's dog
from Oak Ridge Drive keeps coming to her house. She
said she asked a “younger female resident” of the Oak
Ridge Drive house if she could speak to her mother and
the female “cursed her out.”
•a man on Academy Church Road was found unrespon
sive about 3:10 a.m. and may have taken 20 Lortab pills.
His aunt said he had been worried about his parole hearing.
He was taken to Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center.
•a man said he was doing construction work for a local
company and realized he had done a job for the same
company two years ago for which he had not been paid.
He went to the company and a man gave him a check for
$6,300 for the work two years ago and $700 as partial
payment for the current work. Both checks had a stop
payment on them when he tried to deposit them.
•a man said a relative of his was “tossing things around
and yelling and cussing” because no one would give him
a ride to his job interview.
•a woman said a tenant was moving out and her boy
friend called her names. Under his breath, he said, “I hope
this building bums down,” the woman reported.
•a caseworker at the Division of Family and Children
Services said a mother who came to discuss a safety plan
appeared to be “on some type of drug.” The caseworker
said she kept falling asleep and her pupils were dilated.
The father kept their 8-year-old son in the car and said
his wife was prescribed Lortabs and Percocet “before her
last incident.”
•a woman on Erica Lane said between 11 p.m. July 31
and 7:50 a.m. Aug. 1, someone broke off her mailbox.
She said the wood arm that holds the box was shattered
and was on the ground.
•a man said he went into a towing business with another
man who loaned him $19,000 to help in buying a tow
truck. The partner then asked if he could help out by
driving the tow truck. The man said he noticed money
“disappearing from their business account” and miles on
the track unaccounted for. His partner was then arrested
in Franklin County because his driver’s license was sus
pended. The man said his partner got out of jail, got the
tow truck out of the impoundment lot and will not tell him
where it is. His partner also is driving a Ford pickup that
he said belongs to him personally.
•a man said he parked his truck at the QT store on
Highway 129 about 11 p.m. July 27 and locked the doors.
The next morning, he found the battery box latch open
and the battery stolen. He also found the glass on the
passenger side missing. “Multiple items from inside and
outside the vehicle” were gone.
•a school crossing guard confronted a parent driving
the wrong way on Horace Jackson Road at Jefferson Ele
mentary School during drop-off hours. The guard told the
woman to turn around and go in the right direction, but
she said she would not and “then accelerated toward Old
Pendergrass Road.” The woman said she was going the
wrong way after she dropped her children off. However,
there was no traffic, she said, and she was following a
teacher who also was driving the wrong way on the road.
•a man was given a criminal trespass warning at a Gor
don Street apartment after he was “being loud and making
lewd comments about his sister.” The sister said he does
not live there and the family does not want him there
because he “always causes a disturbance.”
•a man was asked to leave the Amazon building because
he had been fired and asked “multiple times” to get back
to work. The man said he was working for a temporary
hiring agency and he asked the Amazon employee for
clearance into a bay area.
•a man disputed a citation for an expired registration.
He said about the time it was issued, he moved to Florida.
•a man and his live-in girlfriend had a dispute over the
man's son staying at the man’s house. The man said his
ex-girlfriend and mother of the boy brought him to the
house because she was going to work.
•a woman said $300 was taken when her car was
broken into at the Quality Inn on Highway 129. The
car was damaged as though a forced entry was made.
•a woman said her cell phone was stolen while she
worked at the Waffle House. She said it was stolen
between 11:30 p.m. and midnight from the “low bar”
area where she put it. Video footage showed a man
taking the phone.
•a man said a Black and Decker hedge trimmer was
missing from a garage on property he owns.
•a woman said another woman drove her car to a
store and ran through the front door on Mayberry Lane
when she returned. The driver “blacked out.” The caller
said the woman is “known to have blackouts.”
•a woman on Danielsville Street said someone
knocked on her door, returned and kicked the front
door, then went around the house and knocked on the
windows. She said she saw an arm sticking through the
back door.
•a man who lives with his daughter on Cooper Hawk
Lane said a new house was damaged on the side where
the chimney is. He said the corner board and four
pieces of Hardie Plank siding were busted and laying
on the ground.
•seven wrecks were reported with no injuries.
JCSO incidents - Maysville
Man, woman fighting leads to two calls in Maysville
Two calls about a dispute between husband and wife on
Sagefield Circle were reported Aug. 2.
The woman called about 2 p.m. and said her husband
came home from work yelling at her. A deputy said he
could not remove the man because he lives there. The
woman began yelling and cursing, saying, “Til just get
another cop out here to remove him.”
She said she was packing to leave, but the man and the
deputy left at the same time.
The woman’s daughter called about 7:15 p.m. and said
her mother was being held hostage by the man.
The woman and her daughter met a deputy, saying the
man had her car keys and phone and would not give them
to her so she could leave.
The man came outside with suitcases, saying he was
leaving because he was tired of dealing with his wife.
Instead of the man leaving, the woman went with her
Maysville PD
Man arrested for DUI
after returning home
An officer with the Maysville Police Department was
called out to 302 First Street for a recreational vehicle
accident where a man was injured.
While the officers waited on an ambulance, the resident.
Lessie Randolph Pafford, 64, drove up and nearly hit the
officer.
When Pafford exited the vehicle, the officer could tell
that he was intoxicated. Pafford reportedly began cussing
at the officer and everyone else and was disrupting the
EMTs who were trying to take care of the injured man.
Pafford was arrested for DUI and disorderly conduct
after cussing at and attempting to grab a woman who was
on his front porch.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents reported to the Maysville PD were:
•dispute on Ridgeland Court where a couple got into an
argument about the man wanting to go take his race car
to the track and the woman wanted the man to get drug
tested.
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daughter to her house.
OTHER INCIDENTS
Other incidents in the Maysville area reported to the
Jackson County Sheriff’s Office recently include:
•a woman said her boyfriend took her 2002 Mustang
without permission and would not return it.
•a woman said she and another woman were arguing
back and forth through text messages. The first woman
said the other one threatened her and her 2-year-old
nephew.
•a woman called about a man making suicide threats.
The man said he made the comments to his former girl
friend “to make her feel bad.”
•a man said his wife’s cousin is a meth addict and he
objects to his children being around her. His wife’s cousin
was offended and argued, saying she would take his kids
to a meth house when he was not there.
CITY OF HOSCHTON, GEORGIA
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: GRANTS PLANNING & MANAGEMENT
The City of Hoschton, Georgia, is soliciting Statements of Qualifications and Proposals from consultants with a strong record
in successfully assisting local governments with grants planning and management for the following agencies:
Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC);
Community' Development Block Grant (CDBG), including Employment Incentive (EIP) and Redevelopment Fund
Programs;
U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (EDA);
One Georgia Authority (OGA);
Georgia Environmental Finance Authority' (GEFA) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA);
Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GDNR);
US Department of the Interior;
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); and
US Department of Transportation, along with other state and federal grant programs.
Plans are to immediately contract with a reputable firm to assist in conceptualization, financial design, grant writing, application
preparation and/or grant administration for several proposed projects. The first includes administering a FY 2018 CDBG, if
funded, and planning, writing and administering subsequent applications.
This procurement is valid for additional contracts and addendums relative to community' and economic development projects
up to three years following the date of award. Responding firms should be technically qualified and licensed in the State of
Georgia to provide these sendees. All contracts are subject to state and federal contract provisions as prescribed by CDBG,
Georgia Department of Community' Affairs, ARC, EDA, USDA, etc., and respective funding agencies.
Proposals should include the following information for evaluation:
■ History of firm and resources;
• Familiarity with the community';
• Key personnel/qualifications;
• Experience with similar projects;
• Scope, ability' and level of sendee proposed;
• Professional references;
• Fees for grant writing/application development;
• Fees and/or percentages for grant management/administration;
■ DCA Section 3 Certification Form(s).
All contracts are subject to Federal and State contract provisions prescribed by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.
CDBG projects must comply with Section 3 of the HUD Act of 1968, as amended. Section 3 Business Concerns are encouraged
to apply'. The City' of Hoschton also abides by the following laws as they pertain to HUD Assisted Projects: Title VI of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964; Section 109 of the HCD Act of 1974, Tide 1; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing
Act); Section 104(b) (2) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of
1973 as amended. Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA); and the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968.
Interested parties should respond to this announcement not later than 5 pm Friday. September 8. Proposals received after
this date may not be considered. Submit questions in writing. Submit one (1) electronic and one original to:
Ms. Wendy Wilson, City Clerk
City' of Hoschton
79 City Square
Hoschton, Georgia 30548
wcafter@citvofhoschton.com
Equal Housing Opportunity
Next DUI Class begins
on August 12,2017