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The True Citizen, Wednesday, October 10, 2012 — Page 9
Burke, Bulloch, Jefferson, Jenkins and Emanuel
Deputies catch suspect in five-county thefts
By Elizabeth Billips
lizbillips@yahoo.com
Two years ago, he was ar
rested when he forgot to let up
the jacks on a stolen trailer and
drove down Liberty Street with
sparks flying.
Friday night, Wayne Darnell
Coleman was jailed again after
he removed the locked wheel
from another trailer and pulled
it down Highway 25 South on
just three wheels.
An off-duty Jenkins County
deputy spotted 46-year-old
Coleman in Burke County and
called for backup when he saw
the dual action trailer and sus
pected a theft.
He was right, according to
Sgt. Dan Lowe, an investigator
for the Burke County Sheriff’s
Office.
An hour earlier, the trailer
had been stolen from Anderson’s
General Store in Statesboro
where officers found the aban
doned wheel with the locked
cable still running through it.
According to Sgt. Lowe,
Coleman was already a suspect
in a number of thefts, includ
ing one in June at Dixon’s
Wrecking Company in
Waynesboro.
Jefferson County officials
wanted him for questioning in
the theft of a concrete mixer in
Wrens last year; and Coleman
is a suspect in the theft of an
other trailer and lawn mower in
Millen.
Monday, Swainsboro police
investigators came to question
Coleman on the thefts of a
county-owned trailer and three
lawn mowers.
Burke County deputies jailed
him on a single felony count of
theft by taking, as well as pro
bation violation. Coleman will
be extradited to Bulloch County
where he faces another felony
theft charge. He remains a sus
pect in open cases in Emanuel,
Jenkins and Jefferson counties.
Wayne Darnell
Coleman
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age residents who have issues to
report them.”
Judge Flanagan has served as
a Juvenile Court Judge for 12
years, but his fire comes from a
new fulltime focus on this court.
Three fulltime judges were
appointed to oversee juvenile
court in the Augusta Judicial
Circuit, a change from the part
time arrangement that’s been in
place for years.
Judge Flanagan, who will be
the primary judge in Burke
County, incumbent Jennifer
McKinzie and new appointee
Pamela Doumar began four-
year terms last week.
They now have the time,
Judge Flanagan says, to turn se
rious attention to children com
mitting crimes and what may
keep others from joining them.
The judge wants to make sure
those juveniles get the help they
need to avoid a return trip to
court, and he doesn’t think it
should cost taxpayers a dime.
Among his aims are plans to
start anger management courses,
community service programs
and other initiatives for juve
niles, all to be paid for with su
pervision fees the offenders pay.
“None of that will be paid for
with taxpayer money,” Judge
Flanagan said. “People in
trouble should pay their own
way.”
Aside from letting juveniles
know he means business, the
judge also wants to make sure
juvenile court is more efficient
and responsive, hearing cases in
a timely manner, keeping vic
tims informed and making sure
authorities get the help they
need.
The judge has already met
with Burke County Sheriff
Greg Coursey and Waynesboro
Police Chief Alfonzo Williams
as well as leaders at River
Quest, a school in Midville for
students with emotional or be
havioral challenges.
Judge Flanagan is scheduled
to meet with Burke County
Public Schools officials this
week to address truancy and
other issues.
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