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Page 8 — Wednesday, October 5, 2011, The True Citizen
Meth bust cracks $30,000 theft
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
A tip about a meth lab didn’t
quite pan out, but it solved a
$30,000 theft.
Last Thursday, an anonymous
caller sent GBI agents and Burke
County deputies to a Corley Road
home where methamphetamine
was reportedly being cooked.
Officers found several small
rocks in a makeup bag and be
lieved a portable lab had been
used in the house to make them -
but they couldn’t find the equip
ment or chemicals to back up their
suspicions.
What they
did find, how
ever, was
around 330-
grand in log
ging equip
ment, accord
ing to Sgt.
Dedric Smith,
an investigator
for the
sheriff’s office.
Deputy Jon Hollingsworth,
who was among the officers look
ing for the lab, had worked a theft
case for a log
ging company
just one week
prior and
around 10
miles from the
Hephzibah
home.
It didn’t
take long for
him to recog
nize the hy
draulic hoses, diesel tank, trailer,
air compressor and other work
tools dumped just outside the
house as the same items stolen
from a logging site on Bridge Tay
lor Road.
“The stuff was just scattered
across the yard ... in plain sight,”
Sgt. Smith said.
Deputies arrested the couple
living in the home, Robert Joseph
Gravelle, 33, and Brandy Marlene
Jordan, 32, on felony charges of
possession of methamphetamine
and theft by receiving stolen prop
erty
Investigators said Gravelle was
out of jail on bond from a 2009
arrest for operating a large meth
lab inside his home.
Robert Joseph Brandy
Gravelle Marlene
Jordan
Shootout over $50
Woman wounded by stray bullet
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
A shootout over a pair of speak
ers ended with a bullet wound for
a Burke County woman.
Three people are charged with
aggravated assault after a stray
bullet punched through the side
of a mobile home late Friday
night and hit the 36-year-old vic
tim just below the knee.
According to Sgt. Dedric
Smith, an investigator for the
Burke County Sheriff’s Office,
the fight started when Augusta
resident Holly Pryor, 33, and her
boyfriend Ronald Summers, 27,
went to a Bates Road home to
collect a debt.
Pryor reportedly sold a set of
speakers to her nephew, 26-year-
old Wade Hampton Skinner Jr.
and wanted him to either pay the
$50 they’d agreed on or return her
speakers.
“They said Skinner came out
on the porch, pointed a gun and
started shooting at them,” Sgt.
Smith said.
The couple retreated to their
car, got two guns and began fir
ing back. Investigators say one of
their bullets hit Skinner’s girl
friend, who was sitting inside and
was completely uninvolved in the
quarrel.
“We don’t know at this time
which gun fired the bullet that hit
her,” Sgt. Smith said, noting that
38-caliber and caliber-380 hand-
§
Holly Pryor and Ronald Summers, left and center, were ar
rested for the shooting. Pryor’s nephew Wade Skinner Jr., right,
is still wanted by deputies.
guns were seized from the couple, charges and an additional count
Pryor and Summers were ar- of possession of a firearm by a
rested for aggravated assault and convicted felon,
possession of a firearm during the Anyone with information on
commission of a crime. his whereabouts is asked to call
Skinner fled before deputies investigators at 706-554-2133.
arrived and is wanted on the same
Two of ‘most wanted’ arrested in Midville
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
Two men on Burke County’s
most wanted list have been
jailed.
One suspect is accused of a
operating a dog fighting ring and
the other is charged with beat
ing his pregnant girlfriend.
Burke County deputies had
been looking for William Albert
Moody Jr., 33, since October
2009 when an anonymous tip
pointed them to a gruesome
scene behind his Scott’s Store
Road mobile home. At the time,
investigators not only found a
dog fighting ring littered with
blood sopped rags and collars,
but a decaying dog hanging
from a tree by its leash. Behind
the trailer were a number of
mounds that appeared to be
mass graves, as well as numer
ous bones, skulls and pit bull
carcasses in various stages of
decay, including one that’s face
had been ripped off.
Moody’s former live-in girl
friend Sonya
Michelle
Walker, then
28, was ar
rested at the
scene but
Walker man
aged to avoid
arrest until last
Wednesday William Albert
night when of- Moody Jr.
ficers got word that he was at
his current girlfriend’s home in
Midville. According to Sgt. Dan
Lowe of the Burke County
Sheriff’s Office, deputies and
Midville police found him hid
ing underneath a bed inside the
Kilpatrick Street apartment.
Moody is charged with a dog
fighting, ag-
gravated cru-
—' ' '■*— obstructing or
Howard Clinton hindering a
Freeman law enforce
ment officer.
The day before Moody’s ar
rest, Midville police detained
another man deputies had been
hunting.
Howard Clinton Freeman, 21,
had been wanted since Sept. 6
when his girlfriend was repeat
edly beaten.
Sgt. Lowe said the victim,
who was three months pregnant
with Freeman’s child, was
bruised from “head to toe.”
Freeman was pulled over last
Tuesday for a traffic violation
and served with an outstanding
Family Violence Act warrant for
battery on a pregnant person and
for probation violation.
Police aim cameras at trespassing complaints
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
A 10-foot fence hasn’t
stopped them but police hope a
camera will.
Foot traffic in and out of the
Pecan Grove subdivision has
triggered numerous complaints
and city council visits from resi
dents in the Blakeney Street
neighborhood. They’ve de
scribed huge groups of teenag
ers and young adults who cut
through yards, leave behind lit
ter and openly engage in sex
acts in the nearby cemetery.
“They’ve complained con
stantly of thefts and trespass
ing,” Waynesboro Police Chief
Alfonzo Williams said.
Pecan Grove owners tried to
head off the problems by install
ing of a $20,000 fence. That
worked, but not for long.
“They’re just finding ways to
get around it and dismantle it,”
the chief said, noting that much
of the traffic appears to be go
ing to and from Magnolia Acres.
But this week officers got
their first look at some of the
people causing the problems,
thanks to cameras that allow of
ficers to monitor the area from
any computer, 24 hours a day.
Already, they’re busy con
verting footage to still-shots and
identifying the offenders.
“We want to give them an of
ficial warning before we start ar
resting people for criminal tres
pass,” Chief Williams said.
The camera also designed to
record nighttime footage, and
police plan to issue citations to
parents whose children are out
past curfew.
Jurors drawn for
Superior Court
Jurors have been drawn for the April 2011 term of Supe
rior Court criminal/civil session with Judge James G.
Blanchard Jr. presiding.
Jurors are to report 10 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 to the
Burke County Courthouse.
The list includes four deferred jurors and is as follows:
Donna P. Hickman, Sardis; Richard L. O’Quinn,
Waynesboro; Cynthia G. Quick, Waynesboro; Ted Daniel,
Waynesboro; Shanterra Patricia Powell, Waynesboro; Eliza
beth Herin Broome, Waynesboro; Vernon L. Cryer, Girard;
Cynthia Ann White, Louisville; Henry Lee Moore, Sardis;
William Jackson Hendley Jr., Waynesboro;
Christine Chandler, Keysville; Jeanie S. Blackburn,
Waynesboro; Mechelle McKinney Taylor, Waynesboro;
Melkeisha Beatrice Kelly, Waynesboro; Susan Wren Garrett,
Waynesboro; Derrick McKinnon Liles, Waynesboro;
Patricia T. Roberts, Waynesboro; Tabitha Dixon,
Waynesboro; Angela M. Williams, Waynesboro; Jessica L.
Russell, Waynesboro; Lorene Givens, Waynesboro;
Charles Edward Green, Waynesboro; Billy Joe Oglesby,
Waynesboro; Nancy Usry Godbee, Girard; Stephanie
Drucilla Grant, Waynesboro; Charles E. Preston Sr.,
Waynesboro; Jerry W. Reese, Waynesboro; Nathanael
Maxfield Kemp, Waynesboro; Shewania Lovett Moore,
Waynesboro; Dianna Lynn Barnes, Hephzibah; Shenieka
Shante Brown, Waynesboro; Marion Louise Robinson,
Sardis; Earnestine Abrams, Waynesboro;
Nelson Akeem Stokes, Louisville; Alfonza Williams Jr.,
Waynesboro; Joyce Yoder Barnhart, Hephzibah; Sequonia
Rochelle Morris, Waynesboro; Shonte’ Michelle Chance,
Waynesboro; Lillie M. Washington, Waynesboro; Sarah
Rebecca Chance, Waynesboro; Darrell Leon Stephens,
Waynesboro; Sammy Lee Anderson, Keysville; Laura Jean
Fuller, Waynesboro; Julie B. Lee, Hephzibah; Deborah
Flake, Girard;
Marvin L. Gaines, Waynesboro; Lula Hankerson,
Waynesboro; William C. Mizell Jr., Waynesboro; Karen H.
Reeves, Midville; Donnie Poole, Sardis; David Thomas
Whiting, Blythe; Talanya E. Johnson, Waynesboro; Ann W.
Salter, Waynesboro; Jennifer Amanda Bame Redd,
Waynesboro; Christy Bell Smith, Waynesboro; Barbara A.
Griffin, Girard; Willie Scott Jr., Waynesboro;
George Ficklin, Waynesboro; William Thomas Bailey,
Waynesboro; Charles D. Mooney, Midville; Ronald
Wheeler, Hephzibah; Mark Edward Gatliff, Waynesboro;
Shirley A. Brown, Waynesboro; Carrie Anne Stamey,
Waynesboro; Roddrick Ladell Vaughn, Waynesboro;
Howard W. Griffin, Hephzibah; Lawrence Edward
Arrington, Waynesboro; Phillip Jonathan Russ,
Waynesboro; Keya D. Webb, Waynesboro;
Richerdean H. Martin, Waynesboro; Thomas K. Jones
Jr., Waynesboro; Donald Ransom Coleman, Keysville;
Minnie Lee Sutton-Benjamin, Louisville; Eugenia C.
Braswell, Waynesboro; Henry M. Wheeler Jr., Sardis; Carol
S. Keen, Waynesboro; Nathaniel Bradford, Sardis; Erica
Necole Williams, Blythe; Arnold M. Kelly, Sardis; Ronney
John Walker, Waynesboro; Ronel Givens, Girard;
Alisa M. Parker, Keysville; Fredrick E. Wilson Jr.,
Waynesboro; Sheron S. Thigpen, Waynesboro; Robert Alan
Barnhart, Hephzibah; Vernell Gresham, Waynesboro; David
Eugene Clayton Jr., Sardis.
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