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The True Citizen, Wednesday, September 15, 2021 — Page 7
^FOR THE RECORD
Missing woman case has connection to Burke County
SHELLIE SMITLEY • thetruecitizen.shellie@gmail.com
The Burke County Sheriff’s
Office posted on Facebook
that 41-year-old Deidre Reid
has been missing since Sep
tember 3.
According to her sister,
Monica, Deidre lived in Page-
land, South Carolina. She is the
mother of three children. She
was in the process of buying
a home and starting a new job
when she disappeared. Her fi
ancee recently died and she had
reached out to her 7-year-old
son’s father, Emanuel Bedford,
to get him more involved in
his son’s life. Bedford lived in
Augusta with his grandmother.
His father resides in Burke
County.
“We tried to talk to his fa
ther and he didn’t give us his
name,” Monica said and said
his father indicated that the
two were estranged. “He had
nothing good to say about him
at all.”
Deidre got out of work early
September 3 and was last seen
by relatives in her jeep to take
Bedford to the bus station. He
was supposed to catch the 1:45
p.m. bus to Augusta. Camera
footage shows him getting
out of the passenger side and
entering into the building but
then getting back into the jeep.
“Instead of leaving, he got
his money back for the ticket
and he got back into the pas
senger side of the jeep and no
one has seen or heard from her
since or seen the jeep,” Monica
said.
Bedford made contact with
Deidre’s family denying that
he knows anything about her
whereabouts. He claimed he
and Deidre drove around Char
lotte, North Carolina for a few
hours and then he caught the
9 p.m. bus back to Augusta.
Bedford’s last text indicated
that he wished to remain silent.
Bedford’s grandmother told
the family that he came home
that night alone and went to
work the next morning. The
family went to his supposed
place of employment but the
company said they didn’t know
who he was. When the family
returned to the grandmother’s
home, it was vacant. The fam
ily does not know how to con
tact her anymore.
“Nobody knows where he
is, I guess he is on the run or
whatever,” Monica said. “His
grandmother is gone. They
took her out of the house and
no one had been back to the
house since.”
The BCSO put an All-Points
Bulletin (APB) out on the jeep.
It’s a Champagne colored Ta
hoe with a New York Giants
tag on the front. The windows
are tinted and it carries a South
Carolina license plate.
It is uncharacteristic of De
idre to leave her kids.
“We haven’t had any sleep,
we have been running back-
and-forth to Augusta every
day or every other day trying
to see if we can hnd her or the
jeep, we have gone everywhere
we can think of,” Monica said.
“My mom is not doing good
with this at all.”
BURKE COUNTY JAIL BOOKINGS
SEPT. 6-12
Paul Lee Adams, 51
Ga Hwy 24 West,
Waynesboro
WPD, Sept. 10
Burglary- 1st degree
(felony)
Antonio Lamont
Campbell, 32
Geddisville Road,
Anderson S.C.
WPD, Sept. 8
Forgery-4th degree-
misdemeanor
Marquez Deshon
Farmer, 28
Washington Drive,
Waynesboro
WPD Sept. 7
Battery (FV)- 1st
offense; safekeeping
for Screven County
SO
Ricky Oliver, 56
Golden Drive, Sardis
BCSO, Sept. 6
Bench warrant-
feiony
Russell Shayne
Findley, 44
Joyner Road,
Waynesboro
BCSO, Sept. 8
Stalking; safekeep
ing for Ga Depart
ment of Community
Supervision
Scotty Andrew
Hadden, 36
Mini Farms Dr.,
Hephzibah
BCSO, Sept. 7
Failure to appear-
misdemeanor
Dominique Ric-
quez Hughes, 30
East 7th St.,
Waynesboro
BCSO, Sept. 9
Safekeeping for
Richmond County
SO
Reginald Willie
Johnson, 38
Elderberry Dr.,
Augusta
BCSO, Sept. 10
Probation violation
for fingerprintabie
charge-felony
Johnathon Brian
Burke, 41
Homeless,
Waynesboro
BCSO, Sept. 11
Possession of firearm
by convicted felon or
first offender; seatbelt
adult; safekeeping
for Richmond County
SO; probation viola
tion.
Christopher Joe
Colonel, 44
Magnolia Acres,
Waynesboro
BCSO, Sept. 10
Possession of
firearm by con
victed felon or first
offender; seatbelt
child; safekeeping
for Ga. Depart
ment of Community
Supervision
Bryce Stephen
Viator, 20
Corning St.,
Hephzibah
BCSO, Sept. 9
Theft by taking-mo-
tor vehicle; felony
Khari Lamar
Wright, 32
Burton St.,
Waynesboro
WPD, Sept. 7
Criminal trespass;
parole violation
AGENCIES
BCSO: Burke County Sheriff’s Office; WPD: Waynesboro Police Department;
GSP: Georgia State Patrol; MPD: Midville Police Department;
SPD: Sardis Police Department; DOC: Department of Corrections
DNR: Departmentof Natural Resources
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Deidre Reid has been missing since September 3
BURKE EMA REPORT
The Burke County Emergency Management Agency
responded to 98 patients’ calls during the week ending
Sept. 12. Of those, 68 resulted in transports, including
34 to Augusta hospitals and one to another out-of-county
hospital. Thirty of the transports were determined to be
emergencies and 38 were non-emergent.
The agency also answered twelve hre calls during the
period. They included one brush/grass hre, seven rescues,
one structure hre and three unspecihed calls.
Gough
were told that they needed a
minimum of 200 customers
to purchase water to make a
project hnancially viable.
“Em not sure if there are
enough people in Gough who
are willing to abandon their
wells to hook up to county
water” Waldrop said. “There is
not enough new development
to make it feasible.”
The lots have been platted
for more than 100 years, Mur
ray estimated, long before an
ordinance required 100 feet of
distance between a septic tank
and well. “They allowed this.
Now we are trying to hgure
out, how do we change it,
how do we hx it in a way that
is conducive to the landown
ers that want to do something
about if?” Stokes asked.
In the past, tenants have
agreed to combine lots. Still
even today, some of the lots
are an acre and some remain
less than an acre. Many lots are
platted at only .25 of an acre.
Some residents haven’t re
sponded to letters asking them
to sell their unused quarter-
acre parcels to other landown
ers who possess less than an
acre, Stokes said.
“Some of those lots are so
small, they didn’t have septic
tanks around then,” Murray
said. “They had outhouses and
community wells with draw
buckets.
Sometimes, the health de
partment is called out to repair
septic lines, and because of
the lack of space, the water
has to be propped to the edge
of the property to get enough
distance to install enough drain
fill to do some good, Murray
said. Sometimes it involves
piece-meal work trying to get
100 feet away from the well.
LETTER TO
THE EDITOR
Editor:
While in the local Walmart
recently, I noticed that the
women in front of me, when
asked if they’d like to have a
mask, they politely said, “No
thank you.”
Would they say the same
thing when offered oxygen to
save their dying lives?
Hospitals can’t help people
needing urgent care because
of people too selfish to wear
a mask!!
Judy Bell
Continued from front
A distance less than 100 feet
doesn’t guarantee the water
will test positive for bacteria.
“If you put a well down,
there should be a circle of pro
tection, a radius of 100 feet,”
he said. “So, if you put a well
down, that’s 10,000 square
feet of separation. That is what
you would need if there were
houses around you.”
Murray admitted there are
contaminated wells out in
Gough but stated that fecal
contamination is few and far
between. He only checks the
wells when a water test is re
quested, typically when either
the well or the septic fails.
“Coliform bacteria, we see
them about 30% of the time,”
he said and attributed it to
sewage running into the wells.
“We just try to deal with it on
a case-by-case basis to try and
get it 100 feet away from that
well. That is what we try to do.
But some of those lots, they
need more land, they honestly
do. They are land-locked, they
don’t have enough property.”
Still Murray admitted that a
community well would remedy
the issue.
“If they had a community
well or public water out there,
it would be much better for the
lots that are out there because
that takes out that well. You
could cap the well that there is
there and you would not have
to deal with the 100 feet,” he
said. “The size of those lots
are awfully small. There is not
much you can do with them.”
NOTICE OF CONVICTION
DUI
OFFENDER’S NAME: RODNEY
ANTONIO CREECH
CITY: SAVANNAH
STATE: GEORGIA ZIP: 31419
DATE OF ARREST: 11/28/2020
PLACE OF ARREST: HWY 25
TIME OF ARREST: 22:50 PM
DISPOSITION OF CASE:
PLEAD GUILTY, 72 HOURS CON
FINEMENT, 11 MONTHS 27 DAYS
PROBATION, $800.00 FINE, CLINI
CAL EVALUATION, RISK REDUC
TION PROGRAM, $25.00 PHOTO
FEE, 40 HOURS OF COMMUNITY
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