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Page 8 — Wednesday, October 12, 2011, The True Citizen
Of Pizza Hut manager
Driver arrested for vehicular
homicide in 2010 death
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
A Sardis man accused in the
2010 death of a Pizza Hut man
ager will only face misde
meanor charges.
Roy Garner, 59, was jailed
last week, nearly one year after
he struck and killed 53-year-old
Catherine Cooper as she walked
along the shoulder of Highway
24 with a deputy.
Just before his arrest, Geor
gia State Troopers received toxi
cology results showing that Gar
ner was neither under the influ
ence of drags nor alcohol when
Cooper was hit.
He is charged with
one misdemeanor
count of homicide by
vehicle in the second
degree, as well as traf
fic violations for driv
ing too fast for condi
tions, improper lane
change and failure to
obey the Move Over Law.
According to GSP Senior
Trooper Brace Rowell, had al
cohol or drug tests come back
positive. Garner would have
been arrested on a felony ve
hicular homicide charge in
Roy Garner
stead.
Charges had been
pending since last Oc
tober when Cooper,
who had just collided
with a deer, was hit by
Gamer as she talked to
a Burke County
deputy who’d come to
the accident scene to
take a report.
Garner reportedly veered off
the highway, hit a parked truck
and then spun out of control and
struck Cooper, killing her in
stantly.
Trooper Rowell said the ve
hicular homicide charge
stemmed from Garner’s negli
gence in failing to slow down
and move into another lane.
“His act contributed to the
death of another person,” the
trooper said, noting that blue
lights were flashing from the
parked patrol car. "This is a real
tragedy.”
In upcoming months, findings
from the GSP’s Specialized Col
lision Reconstruction Team are
expected to be presented to a
grand jury, which will decide if
Gamer is indicted.
Hunter finds hidden meth lab
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
A Burke County hunter
tracked down the makings of a
meth lab.
Around 8 a.m. Friday morn
ing, deputies seized gallons of
chemicals used to cook meth-
amphetamine after a hunter
scouting for deer became sus
picious of tire tracks cutting
through private property off
Collins Road.
According to Sgt. Dan Lowe,
an investigator for the Burke
County Sheriff’s Office, the
tracks led to blue cooler filled
with jars of muriatic acid.
“(The hunter) backed off and
called law enforcement right
away,” Sgt. Lowe said.
Deputies soon discovered
more containers and a pad
locked plastic trank hidden un
derneath cut saplings.
“There was a horrible chemi
cal smell,” Sgt. Lowe said, ex
plaining that an environmental
HAZMAT team was called in to
collect an assortment of meth-
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A HAZMAT team collected meth-making chemicals that were hidden off Collins Road.
amphetamine-making chemi
cals, as well products com
monly used in the process like
Drain-o, Coleman fuel and lye.
Investigators believe the
hunter just barely missed the
perpetrators
“There was every indication
the chemicals had been put there
that morning,” Sgt. Lowe said,
noting the tracks were left after
the dew had fallen. “It was
fresh.”
Deputies have no suspects but
say no one should have been on
the private property, which is
about a half-mile shy of the
Richmond County line.
Jurors drawn for
Superior Court
Jurors have been drawn for the April 2011 term of Supe
rior Court criminal/civil session with Judge Michael N.
Annis presiding.
Jurors are to report 10 a.m„ Monday, Oct. 17, to the Burke
County Courthouse in Waynesboro.
The list includes one deferred juror and is as follows:
John L. Fulcher of Waynesboro; Stanley Russell Jones,
Waynesboro; Robbie Lee Newsome, Waynesboro; Gennie
Mae Evans, Keysville; Michael R. Lively, Waynesboro;
Shirley Anne Ferguson, Waynesboro; Julie Stuckey Bunn,
Midville; Marvin D. Henry, Waynesboro; Elbert Harris,
Waynesboro; Cynthia K. White, Waynesboro; Kay S. Smith,
Waynesboro;
Tannie Smith Jr., Waynesboro; Sharekea Monique
Hudson, Sardis; Veronica G. Browne, Waynesboro; Deborah
Walden Rabun, Blythe; Barbara S. Gaskin, Waynesboro;
Emily Hill Sasser, Waynesboro; Michelle Davis Osborne,
Waynesboro; Tausha Nichole Gresham, Waynesboro; Doris
Y. Robinson, Hephzibah; Joe Cefus Lewis III, Waynesboro;
Ralph Michael Godbee, Girard; Lisa Lenore Smith,
Waynesboro; Rebecca Mae White, Waynesboro;
Willie Lee Stone, Waynesboro; David Hollingsworth,
Waynesboro; Scotty Joel Callaway, Waynesboro; Fedonia
Latrell Gardner, Waynesboro; Terra Kaye Ogden,
Waynesboro; Bryan Casper Krantz, Keysville; Martha Ann
Harrison, Waynesboro; Pashion Rechelle Parker,
Hephzibah; Derick Lee Hill, Waynesboro; Curtis Darnell
Evans, Waynesboro; Carol T. Hutto, Hephzibah; Shakeyla
Monique Davis, Millen;
Mary Ann Terry, Waynesboro; Dorothy Gainer,
Waynesboro; Dawn Marie Prince, Blythe; Henry Coleman,
Waynesboro; Melinda Maria Scott, Girard; Mary Ann
Powell, Waynesboro; Paulette B. Black, Waynesboro; Chun
Ping Liu, Waynesboro; Jeremy Dwight Solomon, Blythe;
Jessie Williams, Waynesboro; James Darren Headrick,
Waynesboro; Linda F. Canady, Waynesboro;
Dillon Maurice Large, Midville; Bill Charles O’Berry,
Waynesboro; Larry R. Wilson Sr., Hephzibah; John H. Kelly,
Waynesboro; Laura A. Harrell, Waynesboro; Maggie L.
Wright, Waynesboro; Rebecca A. Landrum, Waynesboro;
Truemiller U. Zimmerman, Waynesboro; Allen Boyd II,
Waynesboro; Danny Edward Jones, Waynesboro; Ronald
Douglas Morris, Blythe; Richard Vernon Elliott, Sardis;
Frank E. Lackman Jr., Waynesboro; Daniel Tracy
Johnson, Sardis; Radeta G. Smith, Waynesboro; William
D. Griffin, Hephzibah; Barron Donell Bonner, Sardis; Peggy
J. Gresham, Keysville; Phyllis W. Drew, Waynesboro;
Terence Paul Hennessy, Waynesboro; Alicia Ann Greene,
Waynesboro; Teresa A. Whitaker, Waynesboro; Stephen
Whatley Atkinson, Waynesboro; Bobbie Jean Wilson,
Waynesboro; Roxanne Lewis, Waynesboro;
Joy S. Rowell, Waynesboro; B. J. Davis, Hephzibah;
Peggy G. Allen, Waynesboro; Derrick Jones, Waynesboro;
Bobby D. Payton, Hephzibah; Shannoh Denor Walker,
Waynesboro; Bobby Lewis Givens Jr., Waynesboro; Tho
mas W. Tidwell, Sardis; Megan Kathleen Register
Vandenbulcke, Waynesboro; Bryan Keith McFeely Sr.,
Waynesboro; Debra Ann Goode, Hephzibah; Marilyn
Boswell Sparks, Girard;
Candance L. Oliver, Sardis; Reeves M. Burke, Sardis;
James B. McClain Jr., Sardis; Brittany Cieara Roundtree,
Waynesboro; and Kenny Randall Brown Jr., Midville.
From the Blotter
Pointers for criminals
A Keysville man didn’t know which way to turn.
Last week, while checking his land he realized someone had
spray painted red arrows on the trees on the back of his prop
erty. The arrows marked a half-mile long path to his previously
locked gate, which had been cut. According to the report filed
at the sheriff’s office, 200-300 pounds of scrap metal were sto
len, along with a generator and motor.
also took a swing at a jailer who intervened. The jailer dodged
the punch but was scratched on the neck and arms. Herndon,
who goes by her street name “Hoggie,” had been in jail since
September when police found her surrounded by an angry
crowd just outside the Magnolia Acres apartment she’d just
allegedly burglarized. According to that report, Herndon, who
was dressed in the victim’s clothes and refused to return them,
tried to punch officers while being booked into jail.
ART & WINE FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Too much punch
A fight over a drink left one inmate with a bald spot and
another with more charges.
Sharonda Herndon, 29, was arrested for obstruction and
simple battery last Tuesday, just after she swiped an extra bev
erage from the meal cart. When another inmate told on her,
Herndon allegedly went into attack mode, grabbing the woman
by the hair and yanking some out. According to the report, she
In the dark
It was a dark night for the City of Keysville. According to a
report fded by the town mayor, thieves pulled off a job right
smack in the city park. Deputies said a three-foot section of
copper had been cut and stolen from a power pole at the com
munity gathering spot. Officers believe the crime occurred
between Oct. 3-5.
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Wanted in Burke
The following persons are wanted on outstanding arrest warrants. Anyone with information on
their whereabouts is asked to call the Waynesboro Police Department at 706-554-8029.
George
Freeman
Shannon
Allen
Year of Birth:
1986
Wanted for
probation vio
lation (disor
derly conduct)
Randy Lee
Ashmore
Year of Birth:
1985
Wanted for
probation vio
lation (driving
with a sus
pended li
cense)
Daniel Baker
Year of Birth:
1984
Wanted for
simple battery
and four
counts of cru
elty to children
in the third de
gree
Darrius
Kwayne
Bellamy
Year of Birth:
1990
Wanted for
probation vio
lation (interfer
ence with po
lice)
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